Amazon.com Tops BusinessWeek’s 10th Annual InfoTech 100
Posted on May 23, 2008
Filed Under Internet, eCommerce
NEW YORK, May 22 /PRNewswire/ — For the second consecutive year,
Amazon.com tops BusinessWeek’s annual InfoTech 100 ranking of tech’s top
performing companies. In 2007, Amazon.com vaulted from No.23 to No.1, and
the company retains the top spot this year, beating out Apple (No.2),
Nintendo (No.4), and Google (No.11).
While Amazon.com and Apple took the top two spots in this year’s
InfoTech 100, the dominance of U.S. companies in the ranking is in decline:
Only 33 companies on the list this year are U.S. based, down from 43 in
2007. When BusinessWeek first began compiling the InfoTech 100 in 1998, 75
of the top performers were U.S. companies.
To compile the InfoTech100, BusinessWeek began with financial data from
Standard & Poor’s Compustat, also a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies,
that has computerized information on over 28,000 publicly traded
corporations. BusinessWeek trimmed this universe to information-technology
companies. This year, cable companies that expanded into telecom were
added. To qualify, companies had to have revenues of at least $300 million.
Companies whose stock price has dropped more than 75%, whose sales shrank,
or where other developments raised questions about future performance, were
eliminated from contention. BusinessWeek also dropped some phone companies
whose monopoly or near-monopoly power in their countries gives them an
unfair advantage over competitors. The remaining group of companies were
ranked on four criteria: return on equity, revenue growth, and shareholder
return (given equal weight), and total revenues (which was weighted).
The 10th annual InfoTech 100 appears in BusinessWeek’s June 2, 2008
issue, with expanded content on BusinessWeek.com at
http://www.businessweek.com/it100/.
BusinessWeek’s InfoTech100
June 2, 2008 Issue
Rank Company Country Rank Company Country
1 AMAZON.COM U.S. 51 DIGI.COM Malaysia
2 APPLE U.S. 52 QUANTA COMPUTER Taiwan
3 RESEARCH IN MOTION Canada 53 AU OPTRONICS Taiwan
4 NINTENDO Japan 54 AMPHENOL U.S.
5 WESTERN DIGITAL U.S. 55 REDINGTON [INDIA] India
6 AMERICA MOVIL Mexico 56 NAVTEQ U.S.
7 CHINA MOBILE China 57 SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY U.S.
8 NOKIA Finland 58 INTEL U.S.
9 ASUSTEK COMPUTER Taiwan 59 NVIDIA U.S.
10 HIGH TECH COMPUTER Taiwan 60 ADVANCED INFO SERVICE Thailand
11 GOOGLE U.S. 61 VMWARE U.S.
12 MTN GROUP S. Africa 62 TRANSCEND INFORMATION Taiwan
13 IBM U.S. 63 SAP Germany
14 MOBILE TELESYSTEMS OJSC Russia 64 L-3 COMMUNICATIONS U.S.
HLDGS.
15 TELEFONICA Spain 65 INDRA SISTEMAS Spain
16 VIMPELCOM Russia 66 RELIANCE India
COMMUNICATIONS
17 HON HAI PRECISION IND. Taiwan 67 QUALCOMM U.S.
18 AT&T U.S. 68 MEMC ELECTRONIC U.S.
MATERIALS
19 ACCENTURE U.S. 69 BOUYGUES France
20 LG ELECTRONICS Korea 70 DIGITAL CHINA HOLDINGS China
21 BHARTI AIRTEL India 71 ACER Taiwan
22 ORACLE U.S. 72 HARRIS U.S.
23 MICROSOFT U.S. 73 CHICONY ELECTRONICS Taiwan
24 MAROC TELECOM Morocco 74 WIPRO India
25 TURKCELL ILETISIM Turkey 75 YAHOO! JAPAN Japan
HIZMETLERI
26 LG DISPLAY Korea 76 POWERCHIP Taiwan
SEMICONDUCTOR
27 NHN Korea 77 MANTECH INTERNATIONAL U.S.
28 COSMOTE MOBILE TELECOM Greece 78 EMC U.S.
29 MILLICOM INTL. CELLULAR Lux. 79 NEUF CEGETEL France
30 HEWLETT-PACKARD U.S. 80 BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP China
31 COMPAL ELECTRONICS Taiwan 81 TPV TECHNOLOGY China
32 SISTEMA Russia 82 INVENTEC Taiwan
33 ORASCOM TELECOM HOLDING Egypt 83 FOXCONN TECHNOLOGY Taiwan
34 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Korea 84 SAIC U.S.
35 CHINA UNITED China 85 TOKYO ELECTRON Japan
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
36 MOBINIL Egypt 86 DELTA ELECTRONICS Taiwan
37 CARSO GLOBAL TELECOM Mexico 87 AUTOMATIC DATA U.S.
PROCESSING
38 KONINKLIJKE KPN Neth. 88 ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR Taiwan
39 CISCO SYSTEMS U.S. 89 ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS Canada
40 WISTRON Taiwan 90 UNITED INTERNET Germany
41 MOBILE Kuwait 91 SATYAM COMPUTER India
TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES
42 ACTIVISION U.S. 92 NAN YA PCB Taiwan
43 REDECARD Brazil 93 NANYA TECHNOLOGY Taiwan
44 CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR U.S. 94 ADOBE SYSTEMS U.S.
45 ZTE China 95 HCL TECHNOLOGIES India
46 LENOVO GROUP China 96 TD AMERITRADE HOLDING U.S.
47 TELEMAR NORTE LESTE Brazil 97 NIKON Japan
48 CORNING U.S. 98 NIDEC Japan
49 PRICELINE.COM U.S. 99 COMMSCOPE U.S.
50 TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR Taiwan 100 INTUIT U.S.
MRG.
Contact: Patti Straus - 212.512.2680
Heather Carpenter - 212.512.2854
SOURCE BusinessWeek
Share ThisComments
Leave a Reply