Concluded by : Thanakrit LersmethasakulLersmethasakul@live.com

The Smartest Company in the World.

And It’s Not Google.

From : MIT Technology Review March/April 2014

10. Amazon

Raising expectations for what e-commerce can deliver.

9. SquareNot just giving merchants a way to collect payments on phones; now you can e-mail someone money.

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.

7. BMWAt the forefront of adding self-driving capabilities to cars.

6. Dropbox

Its business services are

making cloud file storage

more pervasive.

5. Salesforce.com

Its tools will be crucial in helping companies incorporate new data from the Internet of things.

Maximizing the advantages of its vertical integration as it extends its lead in the smartphone market.

4. Samsung

The company has struggled to move beyond advertising. Has it finally found the missing piece?

3. Google

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.

1. IlluminaAfter outflanking and outlasting competitors, it is on top of thegenome-sequencing business

Just as that market is aboutto soar in importance.