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Leading tech companies worldwide 2025, by market cap

As of April 9, 2025, Apple was the leading tech company by market capitalization globally at 2.99 trillion U.S. dollars. Microsoft ranked second at just over 2.9 trillion U.S. dollars. Tech company stocks were impacted in April 2025 as a result of various global tariff threats by the United States government.

Since its foundation in a Californian garage in 1976, Apple has expanded massively, becoming one of the most valuable companies in the world. The company started its origins in the PC industry with the Macintosh, but soon entered other segments of the consumer electronics market. Today, the iPhone is the most popular Apple product, although Mac, iPad, wearables, and services also contribute to its high revenues. Aiming at innovation, Apple invests every year in research and development, spanning a wide array of technologies from AI through to extended reality.

With a focus that began with origins in gaming, Nvidia's business strategy has been transformed by demand from data centers that sit at the heart of the AI boom. The company's chips have been favored to support in the training and running of a range of large language models, most notably in the development of OpenAI's ChatGPT.  

Most viewed English-language Netflix TV shows 2025

As of April 2025, the most popular English-language Netflix TV show of all time was the first season of the comedy horror TV show “Wednesday,” with over 252.1 million views in the show's first 91 days on the platform. The second most watched on the streaming platform was the fourth season of the American science-fiction series “Stranger Things,” counting around 140.7 million views. New to the top 10 is the British TV series “Adolescence,” which amassed over 114 million views in the first four weeks aired on the platform.

The fourth season of “Stranger Things” belongs not only to the most popular Netflix titles, but was also by far the most expensive series for the company as of April 2024, with production costs of 30 million U.S. dollars per episode. In order to stay competitive in the crowded streaming environment, Netflix reported ever rising budgets to produce their own content. With amassing the most viewing minutes in the top 10 of the most watched original streaming series in 2023, it seems the video-on-demand provider has been successful with this strategy.

For years, the number of original scripted TV shows released in the U.S. has steadily been growing, peaking in 2022 at 600 broadcast, cable, and streaming series. However, in times of originals continuing to soar, streaming services have canceled several TV shows after just the first or second season. Even alleged popular Netflix series such as “1899” or “Warrior Nun” had to go with the story left incomplete, as they fell short of the company’s expectations.

Share of U.S. and China mutual trade affected by punitive tariffs 2018-2025

In April 2025, 100 percent of China's exports to the United States were affected by the U.S. punitive tariffs. On April 10, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump announced 134.7 percent tariffs on Chinese goods.

Global downloads of Shein shopping app 2016-2025

The Chinese fashion e-commerce giant Shein Group has surged to prominence. Founded in 2008 as ZZKKO, it quickly evolved into the world's largest fashion retailer in 2022. Its app attracted around 42.6 million downloads worldwide in the first 15 weeks of 2025.

The online-only fast-fashion company has a unique business model. Enabled by algorithms and data analytics, its swift production and fashion trend prediction abilities have set it apart in the fast fashion e-commerce world. Its algorithm-driven supply chain enables it to reduce the production time to seven days and offer thousands of new items on its site every week at much lower price levels than its competitors.

The fashion retailer also collaborates with numerous fashion bloggers to harness platforms like TikTok and Instagram. Combined with its adept use of social media marketing, SHEIN achieved a staggering 38 billion U.S. dollars in gross merchandise value in 2024. Despite its rapid growth and popularity, Shein's reputation is marred by a barrage of controversies, ranging from labor rights violations, trademark disputes, environmental concerns, to health and safety issues.

Leading smartphone market share in India 2025, by model

In January 2025, the Samsung Galaxy A16 5G was the best-selling smartphone on the Indian market with a share of 3.6 percent. This was followed by OPPO's A3x. With 2.6 percent, Apple is increasing popular in the country with iPhone 16. 

India was the second-largest market for Android smartphones. And in 2024, more than 150 million smartphones were sold in the country and the number is likely to grow in the following years. Realme has a great potential for growth as it has been marketed as a youth-centric smartphone with great quality at an affordable price. Realme has plans to launch new lifestyle products other than just smartphones. As the country has rolled out 5G services by the end of 2022, companies have started offering their first 5G phones in India.

With affordable and cheap smartphones, India’s data consumption was the highest in the world. The data usage per smartphone was at an average of 29 GB per month, according to a report by Ericsson. Data was mainly used for video calls followed by scanning QR codes and using mobile payment apps that increased the mobile data traffic.

EU: regional trade agreements (RTAs) from 1994 to 2025

The foreign trade policy of the European Union is one of the most notable policy areas which is managed centrally by the institutions of the EU, rather than by member states. The EU negotiates regional trade agreements on behalf of its members with partner countries, in order to facilitate greater flows of goods and services, and to open up new export markets for European businesses.

The EU's regional trade agreements The EU has engaged in a number of distinct phases where it has negotiated regional trade agreements with partner countries. In the early 1990s it concluded a host of agreements with Central & Eastern European countries who aimed to join the union in the future (and did so in 2004 and 2007). In the 2000s and early 2010s, the EU concluded a new round of trade agreements with candidate countries in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, such as Albania (2006 & 2009), Montenegro (2008 & 2010), Serbia (2010 & 2013), among others. Since the latter half of the 2010s, the EU has turned its attention towards East Asia, concluding agreements with Japan (2019), Singapore (2019), and Vietnam (2020).

J D Wetherspoon: average annual sales per pub in the UK and Ireland 2000-2024

In the 2024 financial year, the average annual sales of pubs run by J D Wetherspoon in the United Kingdom and Ireland totaled 2.54 million British pounds. This was an all-time high for the popular pub chain.

Largest cities in Latin America by population 2025

In 2025, approximately 23 million people lived in the São Paulo metropolitan area, making it the biggest in Latin America and the Caribbean and the sixth most populated in the world. The homonymous state of São Paulo was also the most populous federal entity in the country. The second place for the region was Mexico City with 22.75 million inhabitants.

Brazil's cities

Brazil is home to two large metropolises, only counting the population within the city limits, São Paulo had approximately 11.45 million inhabitants, and Rio de Janeiro around 6.21 million inhabitants. It also contains a number of smaller, but well known cities such as Brasília, Salvador, Belo Horizonte and many others, which report between 2 and 3 million inhabitants each. As a result, the country's population is primarily urban, with nearly 88 percent of inhabitants living in cities.

Mexico City

Mexico City's metropolitan area ranks sevenths in the ranking of most populated cities in the world. Founded over the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan in 1521 after the Spanish conquest as the capital of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the city still stands as one of the most important in Latin America. Nevertheless, the preeminent economic, political, and cultural position of Mexico City has not prevented the metropolis from suffering the problems affecting the rest of the country, namely, inequality and violence. Only in 2023, the city registered a crime incidence of 52,723 reported cases for every 100,000 inhabitants and around 24 percent of the population lived under the poverty line.

Forecasted major infrastructure pipeline expenditure Australia 2025-2029, by sector

In the first quarter of 2025, an estimated 6.2 billion Australian dollars was forecasted to be spent on major energy infrastructure pipeline projects. In the same quarter, around four billion Australian dollars was forecasted to be spent on major rail infrastructure projects.