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Three biggest Internet companies in each country

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Re: Three biggest Internet companies in each country

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PaulRobinson wrote: post #47

Hilariously 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 desp…

They probably tried to focus on companies that began as internet companies. Microsoft and Apple most certainly did not. Google, Facebook, and Amazon most certainly did.

Re: Three biggest Internet companies in each country

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Post by adventured »

frogpelt wrote: post #81
PaulRobinson wrote: post #47

Hilariously 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 desp…

They probably tried to focus on companies that began as internet companies. Microsoft and Apple most certainly did not. Google, Facebook, and Amazon most certainly did.

Naspers is not an Internet company, and didn't start as one. Listing Naspers is equivalent to listing Time Warner, Disney, Reuters, or Bloomberg. It's silly at best.

I'd say they filled in weak data points when it was convenient.

Re: Three biggest Internet companies in each country

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Post by HNJohnC »

wsr wrote: post #13

World Startup Report team here. It's awesome to see our data on HN! One interesting point to note is that out of the top 7 countries, none of them are from Europe. To put into context, the biggest internet company in Europe is merely 1/40th of the size of Google. HOWEVER, Europe dominates the unicorn club (companies over $1b in valuation). Nearly half of 30 countries on the unicorn club list are European. This prompt…

Very surprising you couldn't take the time to ensure that markers are not directly obscuring other markers. Right now in my browser the US has exactly two items shown as do many others due to this obvious flaw.

So in summary it seems many are saying the data is flawed and the presentation is clearly flawed.

Perhaps it was a little premature to expose this to the world?

Re: Three biggest Internet companies in each country

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Post by [deleted] »

frogpelt wrote: post #81
PaulRobinson wrote: post #47

Hilariously 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 desp…

They probably tried to focus on companies that began as internet companies. Microsoft and Apple most certainly did not. Google, Facebook, and Amazon most certainly did.

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Re: Three biggest Internet companies in each country

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Post by Mandatum »

LeonM wrote: post #14

I 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…

Similarly in New Zealand:

Xero was making big waves as a new accounting software and had millions of overseas investment poured into it. TradeMe is our version of eBay which was basically the first widely-used site in New Zealand.

However number 2, "Diligent Boardbooks" which listed on our stock exchange in 2007, however started in 2000. They seem to sell "Board Portal" software which allows boardmembers to "securely store and access documents" as well as do video conferencing etc.

I've never heard of them, nor do I believe their valuation should be what it currently is (363 million$NZD). They've never been covered in major news outlets (https://www.nzherald.co.nz/diligent-board-member-services/ne...).

I wonder how many SaaS companies there are out there used for money laundering/similar financial fraud.

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