Number of U.S. companies on the list rises to 43 from 33 last year

NEW YORK, May 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- For the third consecutive year, Amazon.com tops BusinessWeek's annual InfoTech100 ranking of tech's top performing companies. In 2007, Amazon.com vaulted from No.23 to No.1, and the company retains the top spot for another year, beating out Oracle (No.2), Research in Motion (No.14), and Samsung (No.15). Apple fell from No.2 in 2008 to No.19 and Google dropped from No.11 to No.37.

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.

The 11th annual InfoTech100 appears in BusinessWeek's June 1, 2009 issue, on newsstands May 22nd, and on BusinessWeek.com at www.businessweek.com/.

                     BusinessWeek's InfoTech100
                        June 1, 2009 Issue

      Rank   Company                            Country
      --------------------------------------------------
         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

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