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Three biggest Internet companies in each country
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Re: Three biggest Internet companies in each country
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Couldn't see Switzerland in that list. Am I being blind?
No, it appears to be missing.
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Re: Three biggest Internet companies in each country
#43"United Kingdom" seems to be listed as "Britain".
Re: Three biggest Internet companies in each country
#44I am Dutch, so naturally I checked the top 3 for the Netherlands. Number 3 (Booking.com) and number 1 (Marktplaats.nl, the dutch craigslist), I can understand because they are indeed big and well-known sites. However, the number 2, apparently, is a website called "Shapeways", which is supposedly worth $175M. I have never heard of it and I asked some of my colleagues and they never heard of it either. After visiting s…
Afaik Shapeways was founded in the Netherlands as a Philips spinout. They later moved to the US, I assume for a better investment climate but that's just a guess. Could be that they somehow re-founded the company there legally and then made the Dutch office a subsidiary.
Re: Three biggest Internet companies in each country
#45I am Dutch, so naturally I checked the top 3 for the Netherlands. Number 3 (Booking.com) and number 1 (Marktplaats.nl, the dutch craigslist), I can understand because they are indeed big and well-known sites. However, the number 2, apparently, is a website called "Shapeways", which is supposedly worth $175M. I have never heard of it and I asked some of my colleagues and they never heard of it either. After visiting s…
Hi, WSR team here. Great comment! The Netherlands have an interesting situation. Even though everyone would say the startup ecosystem is booming, the country has not managed to produce BIG success stories. We selected Shapeways as one of the top 3 companies there. They've raised almost $50M to date ( http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/shapeways ) and we put our guesstimate in a range of $150M - $200M. The company…
Similarly for Israel, would CheckPoint really count as an Internet company in the sense you use here considering their product revenue breakdown? If so in USA, you may as well consider many network infrastructure companies there, Or some cellular data companies may be considered within this list.
Re: Three biggest Internet companies in each country
#46There are only 2 companies for a few countries, so that's not "three biggest".
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#47Hilariously inaccurate because of the focus on "Internet companies", a vague term at best.
Apple is missing at a market cap today of $578 billion, and whilst a lot of that is down to hardware, they have an internet office suite, the largest number of online registered users with credit cards on their DB in the World and probably shift more data than Facebook just in app downloads.
BT Group is missing from the UK despite a market cap of £30 billion. Without them, there is no UK Internet. They were developing hypertext systems in the 1980s.
Others have pointed out mistakes elsewhere in the data for other countries - I sense that without context, this data is mostly useless and uncitable.
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#48Not exactly each country. Mine wasn't there.
Re: Three biggest Internet companies in each country
#49I am Dutch, so naturally I checked the top 3 for the Netherlands. Number 3 (Booking.com) and number 1 (Marktplaats.nl, the dutch craigslist), I can understand because they are indeed big and well-known sites. However, the number 2, apparently, is a website called "Shapeways", which is supposedly worth $175M. I have never heard of it and I asked some of my colleagues and they never heard of it either. After visiting s…
Same for Just Eat in Britain (second). While it is indeed headquartered in London, it was actually founded in Denmark.
But then again, it lists Yahoo! Japan as Japan's first. And I feel that while Yahoo! Japan probably was founded in Japan, Yahoo! sure wasn't.
Re: Three biggest Internet companies in each country
#50The data seems pretty inconsistent, for example Skype is included but Supercell isn't (both acquired). Also attribution to country isn't consistent. Sometimes the founding country is used and sometimes the current HQ location is used.