Facebook tops the list of “World’s Most Innovative Companies 2010.”
Compiled annually by Fast Company, a US magazine which focuses on innovation, digital media and technology and list the 50 most innovative companies from around the world.
The top 10 out of the 50 are as follows:
1. Facebook
2. Amazon
3. Apple
4. Google
5. Huawei
6. First Solar
7. PG&E
8. Novartis
9. Walmart
10. HP
Last year’s topper Team Obama, the e-campaigning team behind the successful presidential race, did not even feature in the entire list. Google went down two spot to no. 4, while Apple climbed up a place to feature third and Amazon climbed 7 places to finish second. Twitter also made its debut at no. 50 while Microsoft despite launching it’s latest operating system – Windows 7 – barely made it at no. 48.
Facebook was ranked at no. 15 last year.
“Now available in 70 languages and every country, the 400-million-user strong King of Social Media has managed a balance between insane growth and staying true to its core identity. Zuckerberg’s relentless embrace of his founding hacker philosophy encourages Facebook engineers to “break things in order to make them better” and allows them to change products and introduce new services as often as some users change profile pics,” writes Mark Borden.
Go here for a full list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies 2010.
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