Microsoft Research provides many of the brains behind the brawn of the world's leading software provider. The unit employs more than 800 scientists and researchers focused on 55 areas of research ranging from mathematics and computer science to psychology and sociology. Microsoft Research performs both academic and product-focused research in areas such as data management, network security, and hardware development. Headquartered in Redmond, Microsoft Research also operates two labs in California, one in Massachusetts, and international locations in China, India, and the UK. Microsoft founded its research unit in 1991.
Google
Need to look up some information online? Go ahead & Google it! Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) provides advertising and global search solutions through the internet. It offers targeted search results from billions of web pages and maintains an online index of websites and other content. The company can be accessed through destination sites atGoogle.com and more than 100 other international domains and its interface is available in more than 120 languages. Revenue is generated by the delivery of relevant, cost-effective online advertising. Based in Mountain View, CA, the company was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998. It had 2008 revenue of about $21.8 billion and has about 20,220 employees.
INDUSTRY TYPE: Internet Search Engine, Data Processing, Publishing & Related Services
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