The 11th annual InfoTech100 appears on BusinessWeek.com.

BusinessWeek’s InfoTech100
June 1, 2009 Issue

Rank Company Country
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1 AMAZON.COM U.S.
2 ORACLE U.S.
3 SAP Germany
4 INVENTEC Taiwan
5 IBM U.S.
6 BHARTI AIRTEL India
7 QUANTA COMPUTER Taiwan
8 WISTRON Taiwan
9 TENCENT HOLDINGS China
10 ACER Taiwan
11 ACCENTURE U.S.
12 MTN GROUP S. Africa
13 HTC Taiwan
14 RESEARCH IN MOTION Canada
15 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Korea
16 AMERICA MOVIL Mexico
17 SWISSCOM Switz.
18 SAIC U.S.
19 APPLE U.S.
20 HEWLETT-PACKARD U.S.
21 DIMENSION DATA HOLDINGS S. Africa
22 MICROSOFT U.S.
23 CHINA MOBILE China
24 ILIAD France
25 INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES India
26 ASUSTEK COMPUTER Taiwan
27 NETFLIX U.S.
28 SK TELECOM Korea
29 ERICSSON (LM) TELEFON Sweden
30 TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES India
31 TELSTRA Australia
32 VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS U.S.
33 BYD China
34 QUALCOMM U.S.
35 TURKCELL ILETISIM HIZMETLERI Turkey
36 VODAFONE GROUP Britain
37 GOOGLE U.S.
38 DELL U.S.
39 ZTE China
40 HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Taiwan
41 COMPUTERSHARE Australia
42 COMPUTER SCIENCES U.S.
43 WIPRO India
44 ENTEL-EMPRESA NACIONAL TELECOM Chile
45 TELE NORTE LESTE PARTICIPACO Brazil
46 EMBRATEL PARTICIPACOES Brazil
47 PRICELINE.COM U.S.
48 TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MFG. Taiwan
49 NOKIA Finland
50 COMPAL ELECTRONICS Taiwan
51 COGNIZANT TECH SOLUTIONS U.S.
52 SIMPLO TECHNOLOGY Taiwan
53 LG ELECTRONICS Korea
54 VTECH HOLDINGS Hong Kong
55 AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING U.S.
56 CISCO SYSTEMS U.S.
57 ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS Canada
58 MCAFEE U.S.
59 FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS U.S.
60 NIPPON TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE Japan
61 BMC SOFTWARE U.S.
62 AT&T U.S.
63 SYNNEX U.S.
64 AFFILIATED COMPUTER SVCS U.S.
65 LG DISPLAY Korea
66 MULTI-FINELINE ELECTRONIX U.S.
67 L-3 COMMUNICATIONS HLDGS. U.S.
68 LG TELECOM Korea
69 TECH DATA U.S.
70 INTUIT U.S.
71 EMC U.S.
72 BROADCOM U.S.
73 AISINO China
74 PC-WARE INFO TECHNOLOGIES Germany
75 SYBASE U.S.
76 TOKYO ELECTRON Japan
77 METROPCS COMMUNICATIONS U.S.
78 SPECTRIS Britain
79 CHECK POINT SOFTWARE Israel
80 WESTERN DIGITAL U.S.
81 AMPHENOL U.S.
82 HOSIDEN Japan
83 NATIONAL MOBILE TELECOM Kuwait
84 HARRIS U.S.
85 FIDELITY NATIONAL INFO SVCS U.S.
86 SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS Korea
87 NASPERS S. Africa
88 HUTCHISON TELECOMMUNICATIONS China
89 SYNOPSYS U.S.
90 TERADATA U.S.
91 CA U.S.
92 GEMALTO Neth.
93 JUNIPER NETWORKS U.S.
94 TKH GROUP Neth.
95 GROUPE STERIA France
96 TELEFONICA DE ARGENTINA Argentina
97 NETAPP U.S.
98 FISERV U.S.
99 ADOBE SYSTEMS U.S.
100 AMDOCS Britain

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 30,500 publicly traded corporations. BusinessWeek trimmed this universe to information-technology companies. To qualify, companies had to have revenues of at least $500 million. This collection of about 800 companies was divided into eight industry categories, such as software and semiconductors. Companies whose stock price has dropped more than 50%, whose sales shrank 5% or more, 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 may give them an advantage over competitors. The remaining group of companies was ranked on four criteria: return on equity, shareholder return and revenue growth (which were given equal weight), and total revenues (which were weighted). The four rankings for each company were added together, and those with the lowest combined score topped the list. The top 100 were then reranked as a group.

Source: BusinessWeek

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