The MIT Technology Review has published a list of the top 50 “smartest” companies of 2016, combining innovative technology with an effective business model. The first place it took us holding Amazon, the capitalization of which amounts to 337 billion dollars.
Among the successful development Amazon rating authors highlighted the Alexa service Voice Service voice control with music, browsing the Internet and elements of “smart home” and platform cloud services Amazon Web Services —the most profitable and fast-growing holding.
On the second place of the rating was the Chinese tech giant Baidu, celebrated in 2016 with developments in the field of speech recognition, computer vision and robotics. The three leaders closed the largest supplier of equipment for the sequencing of the genome Illumina, whose subsidiary Grail plans by 2019 to develop affordable method of analyzing blood that can identify cancer in its early stages.
Most in the list American companies — 31. The representatives of Russia in the rating were not included.
In January, Amazon was suspected of divulging users ‘ personal data. One of the customers of the online store stated in a personal blog on the platform Medium, because of the credulity of the support site his / her personal data repeatedly out scammers.
