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苹果     新的一年里，苹果（Apple）仍然蓄势待发，准备迎接有一个丰收年。大放异彩的iPad即将推出第三代，毫无疑问，全球消费者又得乖乖掏腰包。2011年是苹果全面丰收的一年，虽然它失去了标志性的人物——公司创始人史蒂夫•乔布斯。     2011财年，苹果在首席执行官蒂姆•库克的带领下取得了创纪录的1,080亿美元营收。苹果iPhone销量飙升了81%（这还没算上疯狂热销的新款iPhone 4S）；iPad销量暴涨334%（这在很大程度上要归功于苹果对iPad 2的大幅改进）。产品销量全线飘红，苹果股票在2011财年大涨了75%，达到每股495美元也就不难解释了。

[td=1,1,2%][td=1,1,47%] Apple     Apple is gearing up for another huge year. It is on the verge of announcing the third generation of its stalwart iPad, no doubt with additional plans to conquer consumer's wallets. Last year was a banner year, despite the passing of the company's iconic founder, Steve Jobs.     Under CEO Tim Cook, the company's annual revenues climbed to $108 billion, led by an 81% increase in iPhone sales -- a jump that doesn't factor in the runaway success of the iPhone 4S -- and a 334% spike in iPad sales, due in no small part to the revamped iPad 2. Increased sales across the board explain why shares soared 75% during the company's fiscal year to $495.

                               
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IBM公司     1911年，三项看起来风马牛不相及的业务合并诞生了计算-制表-记录公司（Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company），蓝色巨人IBM开始了最早期的发展。时光飞逝，一百年过去了。2011年，IBM迎来了100周岁华诞。这一年，公司的年净利润达到创纪录的159亿美元，同比增长了7%。     IBM的绝大部分利润来自金砖四国——巴西、俄罗斯、印度和中国。IBM在这些市场发展良好，商业分析、云计算和智慧星球的业务开展得有声有色。智慧星球是IBM正在进行的一项聪明项目，致力于解决现实世界的问题，全面涵盖了从交通拥堵到水资源管理在内的广泛领域。

[td=1,1,2%][td=1,1,47%] IBM     In 1911, Big Blue began with the merger of three disparate-seeming businesses to become the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. Fast forward a century later, the company celebrated its 100th anniversary with record annual profit of $15.9 billion, a 7% year-over-year increase.     Much of that came from healthy revenue growth in BRIC countries -- Brazil, Russia, India, and China -- business analytics, cloud services, and Smarter Planet, IBM's savvy ongoing campaign to solve real-world problems, from traffic congestion to water management.

                               
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谷歌     对于谷歌（Google）而言，2011年是一个巨变之年。四月份，埃里克•施密特将公司大权移交给了联合创始人拉里•佩奇，后者不久之后将谷歌业务调整成为了搜索、社交、移动和广告等六大部门。过去一年，谷歌进行了数次收购，包括：斥资125亿美元收购了摩托罗拉移动（Motorola Mobility），1.25亿美元收购餐馆点评网站Zagat。谷歌还对Gmail、YouTube和谷歌阅读（Google Reader）等面向个人消费者的服务进行了重大更新，谷歌的社交网络产品Google+也最终面世。     Android仍然保持着霸主地位。谷歌移动部门高级副总裁安迪•鲁宾表示，目前每天有70万部Android设备被激活。

[td=1,1,2%][td=1,1,47%] Google     For Google, 2011 proved a period of major change. Eric Schmidt passed the reins onto co-founder Larry Page in April, who not long after essentially streamlined the company into six major product areas, including search, social, mobile, and ads.     Google made several acquisitions, including spending $12.5 billion for Motorola Mobility and $125 million for Zagat. Consumer-facing services like Gmail, YouTube, and Google Reader saw significant updates, and the company finally unveiled its social network, Google.     Android also continued to dominate. According to Andy Rubin, SVP of mobile, 700,000 Android devices are now activated on any given day.

                               
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亚马逊        亚马逊（Amazon）目前正为长远规划而牺牲大笔利润，不过与其它科技公司不同，亚马逊对此处之泰然。因此，尽管2011年亚马逊营收达到了480亿美元，但净利润却下滑了55%，仅为6.31亿美元。     亚马逊将大量资金投入到了规模扩张上，包括计划新建17个运营中心。2011年下半年，亚马逊发布了平板电脑Kindle Fire，有分析指出，在上个圣诞购物季，其销量达到了600万台之多。

[td=1,1,2%][td=1,1,47%] Amazon     Unlike many other large tech companies, Amazon is comfortable sacrificing large profits in the short-term for long-term gains. That's why, despite the fact that 2011 revenues climbed to $48 billion, net income dropped 55% to $631 million.     The company leveled much of its capital at expansion efforts, including plans to open 17 new fulfillment centers. Later in the year, Amazon unleashed the Kindle Fire, a tablet which by one estimate may have sold sold as many as 6 million units last holiday season.

                               
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EMC公司     EMC指出，数据源及实际可用数据的数量将呈爆炸性增长：下个10年，它们的规模将达到现在的50倍。     EMC非常有希望从中获利，因为它拥有门类丰富的硬件和软件存储系统以及云计算解决方案，可以帮助客户管理数以亿计的数据——术语叫“海量数据”。最近的一个财季，EMC营收近31亿美元，上涨了62%。

[td=1,1,2%][td=1,1,47%] EMC     As EMC sees it, the number of data sources and amount of actual available data are both expected to grow exponentially: 50 times what they are now over the next decade.     The data storage company seems poised to benefit thanks to a variety of hardware and software storage systems and cloud-based solutions that help clients manage massive amounts of data, a.k.a. big data. Revenues for its latest quarter were up 62% to nearly $3.1 billion.

                               
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Intuit公司     Intuit最知名的产品是TurboTax和QuickBooks。该公司位于加州山景城，致力于向中小型机构和个人提供商业和财务管理服务。Intuit三分之一的营收都来自于个人税务产品。     对于Intuit，2011年是丰收的一年。公司的营收达到了39亿美元，净利润涨至6.34亿美元，同比增长了11%。其中，小企业及个人税务部门是Intuit表现最好的部门。

[td=1,1,2%][td=1,1,47%] Intuit     Best known for products like TurboTax or QuickBooks, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company provides business and financial management services to small and medium-sized organizations and individuals, with 33% of revenues coming from consumer tax products.     For Intuit, 2011 proved a good year. Profits rose to $634 million on $3.9 billion in revenues, up 11% year over year, with the Small Business Group and Consumer Tax segments being the largest drivers.

                               
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奥多比     这家多媒体软件生产商的战略在2011年发生了显著变化。奥多比（Adobe）上下一心，从自家Flash产品转向快速发展的HTML5 网络标准，发布了同时兼容两种技术的网页动画工具Edge。     奥多比去年全年营收达到了42亿美元，净利润8.33亿美元，超越了公司年初设定的10%的增长目标。

[td=1,1,2%][td=1,1,47%] Adobe     For the multimedia software maker, 2011 marked a significant change in strategy. Adobe made a concerted push away from its own Flash products towards the rapidly growing HTML5 web standard by launching a compatible Web animations tool called Edge.     Net income was nearly $833 million on revenues of $4.2 billion, beating the company's own target of 10% growth set at the beginning of year.

                               
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赛门铁克       经历了2010年的低谷后，世界最大的安全软件供应商赛门铁克（Symantec）在2011年实现了反弹，全年营收接近62亿美元。赛门铁克的反弹很大程度上要归功于公司策略，包括调整其安全软件，充分利用移动设备、云计算及虚拟化这三大趋势。

[td=1,1,2%][td=1,1,47%] Symantec     The world's largest maker of security software rebounded from a sales dip in 2010, reporting annual revenues last year of nearly $6.2 billion. Much of the upward tick had to do with Symantec's strategy, which involved tailoring its security software to take advantage of three key trends: mobile devices, cloud computing, and virtualization.

                               
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易趣        易趣（ebay）成立于1995年，最初是一个商品买卖的在线拍卖平台。现在，易趣已成为世界最大的商业和支付平台之一。2011年，其净利润达到惊人的32亿美元，全年营收接近120亿美元，其中绝大部分收益来自于其2002年收购的贝宝（PayPal）。去年，这项流行的支付服务每月大约新增100万用户，推动全年整体交易额上涨了29%。     译者：项航

[td=1,1,2%][td=1,1,47%] eBay     Founded in 1995 as an online auction site for users to sell and buy goods, eBay is now one of the largest global commerce and payments presences. In 2011, it continued to impress earning $3.2 billion in profits on sales of nearly $12 billion, Much of that was driven by PayPal, which the company acquired in 2002. The popular payments service added roughly one million new users each month last year, driving total PayPal payments up 29% overall.