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Can you define what a tech company is? Maybe the logos of these companies can help you! Today's definition of a tech company continues to expand as it widens in scope within the digital era. Technically speaking, a tech company is a business or enterprise involved in developing and utilizing specific types of technologies for particular industries. Generally speaking, though, we in the digital era are now used to thinking of tech companies as computer or internet-related businesses. While this is partly true, there are many companies which continue to contribute innovations and developments in existing technologies, and in the process, producing new ones. Tech companies not only involve those in the telecommunications, media, or content-providing industries. They also involve other industries that rely on state-of-the-art technologies, like the medical industry. But for this quiz, we will focus mainly on the entertainment, media, internet, and telecommunications industries, and other allied companies of these industries.
We've picked out the most fun logos, so have fun naming them all! This logo is from one of the top multi-product American tech companies in the world that started out with computers. Can you name this brand? Apple's fruit logo is one of the most recognizable tech brand logos out there. The company is on top of many "best tech companies" lists, such as those tallied by Thomson Reuters, Fortune 500, Forbes, and even a list of the "best tech companies to work for" tallied by the jobs site, Glassdoor. You can search for this tech giant's former brand name in their own online invention. What company is this? The search engine called Google is the banner contribution of the company formerly known as Google Inc. They changed their corporate organizational structure in 2015, creating Alphabet Inc. as their parent company. All other Google-related companies became subsidiaries of this parent company.
A San Francisco-based wearable tech company owns this logo. What are they called? One of the most recognizable brands in wearable technology is Fitbit, an American tech company founded in 2007. They are popular for producing electronic products like smartwatches that can digitally sync with mobile devices. These products can track users' health and fitness data. Microsoft Corporation became well-known by developing the Windows operating system of personal computers. This is the reason why the window-like image is their logo. Its famous founder is Bill Gates, the perceived direct competitor of Apple's Steve Jobs when they first started out. Cloud storage is the specialty of this aptly named tech company. Can you identify which one? MIT is an academic breeding ground of innovative tech ideas, and two of its students conceptualized Dropbox back in 2007. The idea is to store files in one's computer onto a cloud-hosting storage space, and users can sync the Dropbox contents in other computers, or in their mobile phones.
Budget travelers know this tech company all too well. Do you know what it's called? The concept of "bed & breakfast" lodging in the hospitality industry was taken to the next level by the founders of Airbnb. The idea is for ordinary homeowners to offer available room and lodging to travelers looking for accommodations that are cheaper and not as formal as hotel set-ups. What's it called now? Mark Zuckerberg's story of how he and his friends founded Facebook is chronicled in the 2010 biopic, "The Social Network," written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher. The film shows how Facebook was originally an inter-university project that later became global in scope. Originally accessed in the U.S. Can you name this audiovisual industry player? The streaming media company known as Netflix started out as a DVD rental and sales company that ran operations via mail. Their late '90s business model was revised when DVD usage declined due to the growing popularity of online content.
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