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Samsung Electronics

$ 173.96bn www . samsung . com It ’ s been a rough year for the South Korean tech superpower – what with the explosive fallout of its defective Galaxy Note 7 – yet here it clinches the crown on our list , along with a solid overall 15th ranking by Fortune . Recent innovations include Bixby ( Samsung ’ s very own AI assistant to rival Siri and Alexa ), the Gear S3 smartwatch and its first set of wireless headphones . Not bad for a company that , when founded 80 years ago in what was then Japanese Korea , was a small trading company . At the moment , revenue stands at $ 173.96bn and it will be interesting to see how this number changes in a developing smartphone market .