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CALIFORNIA BUSINESS MINUTE
Most Innovative
03-03-11
Hi, I am Tim Johnson and welcome to the California Business Minute.
California’s business environment is well known for innovation and it is reinforced
by Fast Company magazine’s 2011 ranking of the “World’s Most Innovative Companies.”
The list identifies and ranks the 50 most innovative companies and California owns
this year’s list, in fact, another California company is once again ranked the highest.
But California companies also control the top ten with seven companies and nearly 30
percent of the Top 50 comes from the Golden State.
The following identifies the companies that made this year’s list.
TOP 50 MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANIES, 2011
California Companies Only
(2010 Ranking)
#1 (3) Apple, Cupertino
#2 (50) Twitter, San Francisco
#3 (1) Facebook, Palo Alto
#6 (4) Google, Mountain View
#8 (12) Netflix, Los Gatos
#9 (NA) Zynga, San Francisco
#10 (NA) Epocrates, San Mateo
#11 (NA) Trader Joe’s, Los Angeles
#19 (14) Intel, Santa Clara
#22 (NA) EBAY, San Jose
#30 (NA) Amyris, Emeryville
#38 (NA) Solar City, San Mateo
#41 (17) CISCO, San Jose
#44 (NA) Pandora, Oakland
I am Tim Johnson and this has been the California Business Minute.
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