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Technology firms dominate Fortune magazine's list of world's most admired firms. And it's not surprising that Apple Inc ranks first in the list.
Let's take a look at the world's 10 most admired tech companies according to Fortune...
Apple Inc
Rank: 1
Founded: April 1, 1976
Founders: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne
Apple Inc, the world's second largest IT company is best-known for its hardware products - the Mac line of computers, iPod music player, iPhone, and the iPad. Its worldwide annual revenue totalled $156 billion in 2012.
Apple made it to the 6th position of Fortune 500 list of companies for the first time in May 2013.
The company had great success last year with the launch of the iPhone 5 and the iPad mini.
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Google
Rank: 2
Founded: September 4, 1998
Founder: Larry Page, Sergey Brin
Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University, Google Inc is an American multinational corporation specialising in Internet-related services and products.
This year's highlight will be the patented Google Glass eyewear, the innovative tech giant will introduce this year.
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Photographs: Michael Dalder/Reuters.
Amazon.com
Founded: 1994
Founder: Jeff Bezo
Amazon.com, the world's largest online retailer has a diversified portfolio of products - DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewellery.
The company is known for the Amazon Kindle e-book and the Kindle Fire tablet computer.
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Photographs: Nir Elias/Reuters.
IBM
Founded: June 16, 1911
Founder: Charles Ranlett Flint
An American multinational technology and consulting corporation, IBM manufactures and markets computer hardware and software.
In 2011/2012, Fortune ranked it as the best company for leaders. Newsweek ranked it as the No. 1 green company worldwide. IBM has also been rated as the second most respected company (Barron's) and 18th most innovative company (Fast Company).
IBM has the distinction of holding the record for most patents generated by a company for 20 consecutive years. IBM has forecast a better outlook for 2013.
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Microsoft
Founded: April 4, 1975
Founders: Bill Gates, Paul Allen
The world's largest software maker, Microsoft Corporation develops and manufactures a wide range of products and services related to computing.
One of the world's most valuable companies, the company continues to excel with its range of Office and Xbox products.
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Photographs: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters.
Intel
Founded: July 18, 1968
Founders: Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce
Intel Corporation is the world's largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue.
Inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the company also makes motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphic chips, embedded processors and other computing devices.
It launched a high-speed, low power Atom processor for the smartphone and tablet market recently.
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Photographs: Albert Gea/Reuters.
Accenture
Founded: 1989
Accenture, one of the world's largest consulting firms in terms of revenues is a constituent of the Fortune Global 500 list.
Its clients include 94 companies of the Fortune Global 100 list and more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500.
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Photographs: Robert Galbraith/Reuters.
Ebay
Founded: September 3, 1995
Founders: Pierre Omidyar
eBay is an American multinational internet corporation with a multi-billion dollar business with operations localised in over thirty countries.
People and businesses buy and sell a wide variety of goods and services on eBay.com.
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World's 10 most admired technology companies
Photographs: Robert Galbraith/Reuters.
Facebook
Founded in: February 2004
Founders: Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum
Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes
Founded by Mark Zuckerberg along with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students, Facebook is a popular online social networking service.
As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active users, according to Wikimedia.
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Photographs: Robert Galbraith/Reuters.
Cisco
Founded in: 1984
Founders: Leonard Bosack, Sandy Lerner
American multinational corporation Cisco Systems manufactures and sells networking equipment.
Cisco is also ranked among Fortune's '100 Best Companies to work for'.
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