Some of the biggest employers in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara area include Apple, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Hewlett Packard, LinkedIn, Comcast, Google, and Oracle, among many others.

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Top of the pile is Aston Martin, James Bond's car-maker of choice, followed by Apple and motorbike designer Harley Davidson.

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