#48 Microsoft
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- 21. Gilt Groupe [23]
- 22. Indian Premier League [24]
- 23. PatientsLikeMe [25]
- 24. Grey New York [26]
- 25. BMW Group Designworks USA [27]
- 26. Synthetic Genomics [28]
- 27. FiLife [29]
- 28. Frito-Lay [30]
- 29. Alibaba [31]
- 30. MITRE [32]
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- 31. HTC [33]
- 32. Diller Scofidio + Renfro [34]
- 33. Firstborn [35]
- 34. Sportvision [36]
- 35. Ideo [37]
- 36. Samsung [38]
- 37. Glam Media [39]
- 38. Ngmoco [40]
- 39. VNL [41]
- 40. Aldi Süd [42]
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- 41. Fast Retailing [43]
- 42. Huayi Brothers [44]
- 43. Athenahealth [45]
- 44. MVRDV [46]
- 45. Alstom [47]
- 47. Good Guide [48]
- 48. Microsoft [49]
- 49. Politico [50]
- 50. Twitter [51]
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- Good Guide [48]
- See full list [52]
- Politico [50]
Last year, Microsoft felt a tingle of cultural relevance it hadn't experienced since the 2001 Xbox launch. The source? Bing. Like Xbox, the new search engine first surprised a Microsoft-weary populace primarily by not sucking outright. Then it beat Twitter and CNN in page views. Google's 65% market share is still massive, but with Microsoft's new control over Yahoo's 17% piece of the search pie, Bing might just become a verb in its own right.
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WHEN FOUNDED 1975 |
HEADQUARTERS Redmond, WA |
CEO Steven Balmer |
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 93,000 |
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Microsoft
total revenues for most recent fiscal year
$56.3 Billion
what the company is most famous for
Windows operating system, which is on nearly 90% of all computers and handhelds.
why it's innovative
With its artful and elegant Bing, Microsoft is chipping away at Google's massive search market share.
web
Microsoft.com [54]
facebook
http://www.facebook.com/microsoft [55]
twitter
http://twitter.com/microsoft [56]
Fast Company
Microsoft's Class Action [September 2007] [57]
