Asia's Top 11 Tech Companies

1. Tencent Holdings

Founded: 1998
Country: China
Employees: 20,000
Sales: $4.5bn

Tencent Holdings is China's biggest Internet Company in terms of revenue. Started as an instant messaging service in the late 1990s, it is also China's largest online game operator. In June 2012, Tencent bought a minority stake in Epic Games, a developer of 3D game engine technology, and in July purchased a stake in financial news company Caixin Media to increase its content offerings. Last year, it launched online video and expanded e-commerce offerings to take on well-established players Youku and Alibaba Group.

2. Digital China Holdings

Founded: 2001
Country: China
Employees: 12,900
Sales: $9.1bn

Digital China Holdings Limited is the China's largest integrated IT services provider . Digital China provides uninterrupted integrated IT services to customers that cover IT planning and consultation, design and implementation of software solutions, outsourcing of IT system operation and maintenance, systems integration, IT distribution and maintenance.

3. Samsung Electronics

Founded: 1969
Country: South Korea
Employees: 23,501
Sales: $142.4bn

Samsung is South Korea’s biggest, most profitable and most globally identified brand. Samsung Electronics is the flagship of Samsung Group, a conglomerate that controls more than 80 companies which includes businesses like building oil tankers and apartment complexes, running hotels and amusement parks and consumer electronics. 

The company recently lost patent battle to Apple in the US and has been asked to pay $1.05 billion in damages for violating Apple's patents for iPhone and iPad.

4. Lenovo Group

Founded: 1984
Country: China
Employees: 27,000
Sales: $29.6bn 

Lenovo Group is a personal technology company spread across more than 160 countries. The company offers a variety of commercial desktops to businesses of all sizes. Its products include laptops, tablets, desktops, workstations and servers. The company is the no. 1 PC seller in India, according to a recent Gartner report. Of late, Lenovo beat Apple in the three months ending June for the second place in smartphone sales in China.

5. Tata Consultancy Services

Founded: 1968
Country: India
Employees: 243,545
Sales: $9.6bn

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is India's top IT Company. Over the year its net profit grew by 6 per cent to Rs 2,301 crore. Revenues grew 25 per cent to Rs 11,633 crore as companies in North America and Europe continued to spend, in spite of doubts of a supreme default in some regions and a slowdown in others. The company closed 10 large deals of $100 million or more during the second quarter, including from financial services clients, and is reported to be behind 10 more such deals.

6. DiGi.com

Founded: 1995
Country: Malaysia
Employees: 2,077
Sales: $1.9bn

DiGi is a Malysia-based mobile communications company that provides a broad range of wireless services. The company has an established presence as a leader in voice and data prepaid services. It offers services under DiGi Prepaid and DiGi Postpaid brand names.

7. NHN

Founded: 1998
Country: South Korea

Employees: 2,623
Sales: $1.8bn

NHN Corporation runs South Korea's most widely used Web portal, Naver . The company also operates hangame.co.jp, naver.jp and ijji.com which target users from Japan and the United States. In January 2011, the company established a new wholly-owned subsidiary

8. Bharti Airtel

Founded: 1995
Country: India
Employees: 20,892
Sales: $14bn

Bharti Airtel is India's top mobile phone company by revenue and subscribers . The company operates in three chief business segments: mobile services, telemedia services and enterprise services. It has one of strongest balance sheet in telecom sector of India. But the lower average revenue per user (ARPU) continues to haunt the company.

In the previous quarter, the company's total revenues were up by 14 per cent to Rs 19,350 crore in the quarter from Rs 16,975 crore in the first quarter. Markedly it showed a growth of 31.5 per cent in Africa and 44.2 per cent jump in mobile data revenues from India.

9. HCL Technologies

Founded: 1991
Country: India
Employees: 84,319
Sales: $3.8bn

HCL Technologies is India's fourth largest IT Company . The company's operations comprise software services, infrastructure services, including sale of networking equipment and business processing outsourcing services. HCL Tech provides solutions to verticals, such as financial services, manufacturing, public services and healthcare. The major geographical segments include America, Europe and others.

Bangalore: Like last few years, technology companies once again rule the listing of industry verticals in Asia’s Fab 50 announced by Forbes. To be specific, there are 11 IT companies in the list, up from eight last year. The list which includes top 50 public companies of Asia-Pacific is prepared annually. The list is based on revenue, earnings, and return on capital, share-price movements and outlook of these companies.
So, here are the 11 biggest technology companies of Asia.

10. Baidu

Founded: 2000
Country: China
Employees: 16,082
Sales: $2.2bn

Baidu is China's biggest internet search engine . Baidu has lately launched a mobile browser. The company also plans to invest in a cloud computing center as it is aware that the growth in internet use is shifting to mobile phones.
Baidu is well ahead of Google in China. According to research company Analysys International, the company had 78.6 per cent share of Chinese search market in the second quarter of 2012, way ahead of second-place Google with 15.7 per cent.

11. Quanta Computer

Founded: 1988
Country: Taiwan
Employees: 108,872
Sales: $36.6bn

Quanta Computer is the world's largest contract maker of notebook computers in terms of revenue . The company designs and manufactures devices for companies such as Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Google and Amazon.com. JP Morgan has estimated Quanta's revenue to rise 14 percent in the coming third quarter, while its notebook shipments to grow slowly at zero to 3 percent. The industry's average is zero to 2 per cent.