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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Fortune is out with its list of Best Companies to Work For and pared that down to the ones doing the most hiring.

Here are 10 places where you might want to forward that resume:

– Edward Jones

– Google

– Wegmans Food Markets

– Cisco Systems

– Genentech

– Methodist Hospital System

– Whole Foods Market

– Microsoft

– Burns & McDonnell

– Ernst & Young

To read about these companies, and to see the rest of the list, visit Fortune.

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Fortune has put together its list of the 100 Best Companies to Work for in 2009. Some are familiar, others are a bit more obscure, but all seem to be in position to weather the year’s expected economic storms.

Here’s the Top 10:

1. NetApp

2. Edward Jones

3. Boston Consulting Group

4. Google

5. Wegmans Food Markets

6. Cisco Systems

7. Genentech

8. Methodist Hospital System

9. Goldman Sachs

10. Nugget Market

What makes these such good places to work in a faltering economy? Visit Fortune to get more details and see the rest of the list.

To compile the first annual list of “The World’s Most Influential Companies,” BusinessWeek worked with an advisory board of 14 academics, consultants, and industry leaders worldwide, including Shelly Lazarus, Chairman and CEO of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide and Jim Collins, author of Good to Great. The choices were more art than science, but the companies that emerged are those BusinessWeek believes have played a major role in the world of business over the past year and could shape the corporate landscape for years to come.

The World’s Most Influential Companies:

• Apple
• Google
• Huawei
• JPMorgan Chase
• Monsanto
• News Corp.
• Saudi Aramco
• Toyota
• Unilever
• Wal-Mart

For more on “The World’s Most Influential Companies,” go to BusinessWeek online.

Source: BusinessWeek

Co-founder of TheStreet.com and star of Mad Money on CNBC, Cramer is never shy with an opinion. That doesn’t mean he is always right. Of the 10 prognostications he offered for the current year, a few have proved to be somewhat off the mark.

For instance:

1. Goldman Sachs makes more money than every other brokerage firm in New York combined and finishes the year at $300 a share. (On Sept. 21, Goldman and Morgan Stanley, the last major American investment banks, asked the Federal Reserve to change their status to bank holding companies. By early November, Goldman’s stock had slumped to about $70 per share.)

2. Oil goes much higher, maybe as much as $125 a barrel. (Yes and no. In July, oil peaked at about $147 per barrel. The subsequent economic downturn cut that price in half.)

6. (Google) stock roars to $1,000. I like Google enough to put this one at 7 to 1. If you use an $800 target, make it 5 to 2. (Google stock dropped nearly $400 a share between Jan. 2 and Nov. 11, struggling to stay above the $300 mark.)

7. European companies, eyeing the weak dollar, snap up New York real estate, and offer to buy Merrill Lynch and JPMorgan. ( Bank of America bought a failing Merrill Lynch, while JPMorgan snatched up Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual at fire sale prices.)

9. The New York Times…stock drops to $10. To save the world’s greatest newspaper, the company accepts a buyout offer from Mayor Michael Bloomberg at $20 a share. (No sale just yet, but Times stock dipped below $9 a share in the first part of November. Then again, picking against a newspaper these days isn’t much of a gamble.)

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Google, Apple, Amazon.com, Zara and Nintendo are among this year’s top gainers in Interbrand’s annual ranking of The Best Global Brands, and not surprisingly, financial services giants Merrill Lynch, Citi and Morgan Stanley are among the companies that have slipped dramatically down the list. Coca-Cola (No. 1) remains the best global brand for the eighth year in a row.

Here are the top 10 global brands:
2008 Rank (2007 Rank)

1. (1) Coca-Cola
2. (3) IBM
3. (2) Microsoft
4. (4) GE
5. (5) Nokia
6. (6) Toyota
7. (7) Intel
8. (8) McDonald’s
9. (9) Disney
10. (20) Google

For more details and the complete list of global brands, go to the Interbrand web site.

Source: Interbrand

Google has launched the beta version of a new open-source browser, Google Chrome, in more than 100 countries. Here are some of its key features, according to Google:

• Designed to be clean and fast, with improved speed and responsiveness
• Keeps each tab in an isolated “sandbox” to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites
• Has a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers
• Currently available for Windows only (Mac and Linux versions are in the works)
• Open source (includes components from Apple’s WebKit and Mozilla’s Firefox)

For more information and download details, visit Google.

Source: Google

Janco and the IT Productivity Center have released their Browser and Operating System Market Share
White Paper. The major findings are: Microsoft’s browser market share has continued to erode and has fallen to 58.50% versus 65.48% (loss of 6.96%) in August 2007 and 82.99% (loss of 24.49%) in August 2005; Firefox has maintained its number 2 browser position and now is used by almost 19% (18.94%) of all users; Google Desktop has over 4% (4.01%) of the market; and Time Warner made a strategic error in abandoning Netscape as users continue to use Netscape even though AOL no longer supports it.

Janco’s top five browser market share rankings:

1 - Microsoft’s IE – 58.50%

2 - Firefox – 18.94%

3 - Netscape – 11.63%

4 - Google Desktop – 4.01%

5 - Mozilla – 3.05%

For more on Janco’s browser market share data, go to Janco’s web site.

Source: Janco