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Apple
Capitalization of Apple for the end of 2011 made $376.4 billion. The share value of the company considerably grew - from $340 at the beginning of a year to $410 at the end.
Brief summary: In 2011 Apple experienced the death of the founder Steve Jobs. But it did not undermine investor confidence to the company and practically did not affect the price of its actions. The main new products of year for Apple of iPhone 4S and iPad 2 steel. Their sales show steadily good results though it becomes more difficult to compete with Android devices.
Microsoft
Capitalization of Microsoft for the end of 2011 made $218.4 billion. The share value of the company for a year seriously fluctuated, but year-on-year practically did not change, having remained at the level of $28.
Brief summary: Purchase of Skype became the transaction of year for Microsoft. The corporation expects to integrate this service into the Windows platform of Phone, to strengthen the positions in the market of a corporate video conferencing and also to earn from video advertizing. The agreement with Nokia Corporation on development of smartphones based on Windows Phone became one more important event for Microsoft. The Finnish producer along with some Asian vendors already released the first devices based on mobile Microsoft OS.
IBM
Capitalization of IBM for the end of 2011 made $216.7 billion. The share value of the company considerably grew - from $147 at the beginning of a year to $186 at the end.
Brief summary: IBM in 2011 for the first time was headed by the woman- Virginia Rometty. The vendor enhanced the competences of a business intelligence segment, having purchased the companies DemandTec and Emptoris, carried out serious upgrade of server solutions and developed a number of the innovation products (conceiving of chips, phase memory). Besides, the company managed to save sure positions in the market of informatization of a public sector of the USA and other large countries.
Capitalization of Google for the end of 2011 made $209.2 billion. The share value of the company grew from $616 at the beginning of a year to $660 at the end (the truth, within the first week of January of quotation fell to value of the beginning of 2011 again).
Brief summary: In 2011 Google continued successful development of the mobile platform Android. Besides, for expansion of this direction the searcher purchased mobile phone manufacturer Motorola. In November, 2011 the Google Chrome browser became the second most popular, having for the first time overtaken Mozilla Firefox. At the same time, the company made the decision to close a number of services which did not become popular with users. Among them - the competitor of Wikipedia the Knol project and once high-profile project Google Wave which at start was positioned as "future mail".
Oracle
Capitalization of Oracle for the end of 2011 made $128.9 billion. The share value of the company was reduced with $31 at the beginning of a year to $25 at the end.
Brief summary: For Oracle 2011 was remembered by transactions, large announcements and, of course, scandals. In particular, Oracle agreed about purchase of the American company RightNow, developer of cloud solutions for client service through call centers, websites and social networks. Besides, the company started one of the world's largest corporate clouds, Oracle Public Cloud suitable for transfer in it all applications and business processes of the enterprise. Scandal without which Oracle could not do concerned Google Android OS. Oracle is going to seize from Google from $1.4 to $6.1 billion for use of patents of Java in it. Court's decision which cancelled collecting from SAP for benefit of Oracle of $1.3 billion for espionage of which the last accused the competitor became failure of year for Oracle.
Intel
Capitalization of Intel for the end of 2011 made $123.5 billion. The share value of the company grew a little - with $21 at the beginning of a year to $25 at the end.
Brief summary: In 2011 the new category of computers based on Intel processors - ultrabooks successfully started. These devices it is completed with the Intel processors Core i3, i5 or i7 of the second generation (Sandy Bridge), have the thin body, lightweight and rather low cost. Besides, Intel signed the agreement with Google on optimization of Atom processors for smartphones based on the Android operating system. Now their energy consumption is too high therefore smartphone manufacturers prefer to use ARM processors. Despite not quite successful attempts of Intel to enter the market of mobile devices, the company continues to strengthen the positions in relation to the main competitor - AMD.
Cisco
Capitalization of Cisco for the end of 2011 made $97.2 billion. The share value of the company was a little reduced - from $20 at the beginning of a year to $19 at the end.
Brief summary: In 2011 the management of Cisco said publicly that the company is in crisis since lost focus. At the same time, the main points of growth were formulated: first of all, it expansion of business on production of routers and switches and also the direction of a video conferencing. From a number of the directions as, for example, production of video cameras Flip Video, Cisco decided to refuse. As a result of the planned restructuring from Cisco 9% of employees will be dismissed.
Amazon
Capitalization of Amazon for the end of 2011 made $81 billion. The share value of the company was a little reduced - from $184 at the beginning of a year to $179 at the end.
Brief summary: Amazon in 2011 was remembered by release of inexpensive Android tablet Kindle and failures of own cloud services as a result of which many online projects using a hosting of Amazon suffered. Besides, the company started own musical storage and a cloud player, in hope to stimulate sales of a MP3 tracks.
SAP
Capitalization of SAP for the end of 2011 made $66.7 billion. The share value of the company slightly grew - with $51 at the beginning of a year to $53 at the end.
Brief summary: What for Oracle it is possible to consider failure for SAP, on the contrary, became success of year - it should not pay Oracle of $1.3 billion compensations on a charge of espionage. Acquisition of the American developer of "cloud" services SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion became the transaction of year for SAP. Its solutions will allow SAP to add software, available in lease.
HP
Capitalization of HP for the end of 2011 made $51.1 billion. The share value of the company was considerably reduced - from $45 at the beginning of a year to $26 at the end.
Brief summary: For 2011 HP endured two changes of strategy. In March, 2011 the head of the company Leo Apotheker decided to turn it into the largest provider of cloud services, and several months later announced intention to separate or sell division on release of the PC. Shareholders did not like Apotheker's solution and they dismissed him. Meg Whitman who declared canceling of the ambiguous solution of Apotheker became the new company executive.
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