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Concluded by : Thanakrit [email protected]
The Smartest Company in the World.
And It’s Not Google.
From : MIT Technology Review March/April 2014
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10. Amazon
Raising expectations for what e-commerce can deliver.
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9. SquareNot just giving merchants a way to collect payments on phones; now you can e-mail someone money.
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8. Third Rock VenturesThese VCs don’t wait for biotech startups to come to them. They create companies themselves. The path to greatness in biotechnology runs through a vale of tears.
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7. BMWAt the forefront of adding self-driving capabilities to cars.
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6. Dropbox
Its business services are
making cloud file storage
more pervasive.
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5. Salesforce.com
Its tools will be crucial in helping companies incorporate new data from the Internet of things.
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Maximizing the advantages of its vertical integration as it extends its lead in the smartphone market.
4. Samsung
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The company has struggled to move beyond advertising. Has it finally found the missing piece?
3. Google
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2. Tesla MotorsCar companies have struggled to sell electric cars. Tesla Motors
is the exception. Last year, the first full year of sales for its Model S luxury sedan, Tesla sold more than twice as many cars as either Nissan or GM did when they introduced their battery-
powered vehicles, the Leaf and the Volt.
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1. IlluminaAfter outflanking and outlasting competitors, it is on top of thegenome-sequencing business
Just as that market is aboutto soar in importance.