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CHART STORM
There are four elite technology companies that are stepping all over each other in every market imaginable from virtual reality, online video, the cloud, mobile pay, social media, smartphones and even driverless cars. Here are just a few of the charts that define these companies and trends.


REVENUE
We're going to go through four revenue charts, and we'll see exactly why the stock market has fallen in love with Facebook and Amazon, and fallen out of love with Apple.









PERSPECTIVE
To put the entirety of large cap technology in perspective, here is a comparison of all mega tech by revenue:



We can also lok at revenue per employee and we are quickly reminded that even though Apple has by far the most employees, it is untouchable with respect to efficency:



RESEARCH AND DEVELOPEMENT
One thing each of these giants have in common is a rip roaring chase to innovation. Here are some R&D charts to ponder:



Yes, Amazon is at the top.

And then we can look at R&D expense per $1 of operating expense:



And now scaled, Facebook is at the top.

THEMES
The market segments each of these firms are pursuing define the transformation that is coming from technology. Here are just a few:



We can add Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) as a leader here as well.







For streaming video on demand (SVOD), we can add Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) as the worldwide leader, as of today.

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RISK
The fact that each of these mega caps are pouncing on each other’s businesses means we're in a totally different realm of risk than we have ever seen before. What appears to be safe, is not.

For example, ad blocking could cut Facebook and Google's revenue in half. A successful Amazon smartphone or the continued success by Google's Android could crush Apple's iPhone profit center. The Amazon video service combined with Amazon Prime video could destroy YouTube.

Google's explosive growth in e-commerce could cut Amazon's world dominating aspirations out at the knees.

We can continue, on and on. But it turns out there is a way to side step this mess, while investing in the future.

THE FUTURE
There's a philosophy we follow, and it reads like this:


It turns out there are two technology gems that will power the self-driving revolution, and they will win regardless of the success of Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) versus Apple versus Google. There is a tech gem that will power the virtual reality and cloud computing revolutions and it won't matter which VR hardware wins or which cloud service wins -- each VR headset will be powered by one company, and each cloud will be powered by these chips.

There is even a marvel technology company that will power the online video advertising wars -- and it won't matter if Facebook, YouTube or Amazon wins.

WHY THIS MATTERS
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That chart plots the growth in 4G usage worldwide and how it will grow from 330 million people today to nearly 2 billion in five years. This is the lifeblood fueling every IoT and mobile device on the planet and CML Pro has named the single winner that will power this transformation. Then there's cyber security:



Market correction or not, recession or not, the growth in this area is a near certainty, even if projections come down, this is happening. CML Pro has named the single best cyber security stock to benefit from this theme.

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