This infographic shows the biggest tech company in every US state

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Whether you consider yourself tech-savvy or a technophobe, in today’s world, technology touches virtually everybody’s lives in one way or another. It’s an industry that comprises hundreds of thousands of companies and is worth trillions of dollars worldwide. Now, thanks to data solutions company Utopia, you can find out which is the biggest tech firm in each US state.

The data is based on company revenues listed on the 2016 Fortune 1000 list. For the lesser populated states, the Inc. 5000, which ranks the country’s top 5000 fastest-growing private companies, is used.

As you can see from the breakdown infographic by Business Insider, there are huge differences between the revenues of the biggest companies in each state. It’s no surprise to see that Apple, the largest company in the world, is also the biggest firm in California. It recorded a revenue of $215 billion in 2016 and has 115,000 employees. Whereas Montana’s largest tech firm is Foundant Technologies, an online software service platform, which made $4 million in 2015 and has just 43 workers.

Despite its size, Apple doesn’t sit at the top of the pile when it comes to largest number of employees. That distinction goes to General Electric (a tech firm is defined here as a company that describes themselves as developing new technology in communications, IT software, healthcare, aviation, or data solutions). The Boston-based conglomerate is Massachusetts’ largest tech company, with 330,000 workers and a revenue of $123.7 billion last year.

It’s noted that five of the biggest firms on the list - Apple, General Electric, AT&T, Verizon, and Amazon (Washington’s largest tech company) – generate a combined revenue of over $764.5 billion and employ a total of 1.113 million people in the US.

Make sure to check out the full details at Utopia's website, which also shows the second-largest tech companies in each state.

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Thats funny because sprint doesnt even work in kansas

It's because of their history. It was originally founded as Brown Telephone Company in Abilene, KS in 1899 by Cleyson & Jacob Brown to provide local phone service (& incorporated in 1902). After various acquisitions, mergers, a bankruptcy, a consolidation with GTE Sprint, buying out of GTE Sprint's share, & numerous name changes, they've been known as Sprint since 1992. Their headquarters are still in Cleveland Park, KS.

Hadn't realized until now that Sprint was originally SPRINT, an acronym for Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Network Telecommunications.
 
It's because of their history. It was originally founded as Brown Telephone Company in Abilene, KS in 1899 by Cleyson & Jacob Brown to provide local phone service (& incorporated in 1902). After various acquisitions, mergers, a bankruptcy, a consolidation with GTE Sprint, buying out of GTE Sprint's share, & numerous name changes, they've been known as Sprint since 1992. Their headquarters are still in Cleveland Park, KS.

Hadn't realized until now that Sprint was originally SPRINT, an acronym for Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Network Telecommunications.
You would think for being the biggest tech company in Kansas they would want their services to work in Kansas, instead they sold their towers to small communication companies in the state
 
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