MIT Technology Review Reveals Annual 50 Smartest Companies List in Annual Business Issue

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Jun 21, 2016, 09:13 ET

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 21, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, MIT Technology Review releases its 2016 list of 50 Smartest Companies (www.technologyreview.com/lists/companies). Over the last 12 months, in their fields, the honorees have taken risks to unsettle an existing marketplace or create a new market entirely.

Jason Pontin, publisher and editor in chief, states, "Each year we identify 50 companies that are smart in the way they create new opportunities. Some of this year's stars are large companies, like Amazon and Alphabet, that are using digital technologies to redefine industries. Others are wrestling with technological changes: companies like Microsoft, Bosch, Toyota, and Intel. Also on the list are ambitious startups like 23andMe, a pioneer in consumer-accessible DNA testing; 24M, a reinventor of battery technology; and Didi Chuxing, a four-year-old ride-hailing app that's beating Uber in the Chinese market. Still, despite the excitement of recent advances in such fields as artificial intelligence and genomic medicine, technology has failed to energize the overall economy."

The list is included in the annual business issue, which is available online now at www.technologyreview.com and on newsstands worldwide on July 5, 2016.

50 Smartest Companies 2016:

Amazon
Baidu
Illumina
Tesla Motors
Aquion Energy
Mobileye
23andMe
Alphabet
Spark Therapeutics
Huawei
First Solar
Nvidia
Cellectis
Enlitic
Facebook
SpaceX
Toyota
Airware
IDE Technologies
Tencent
Didi Chuxing
Oxford Nanopore
24M
Alibaba
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Microsoft
Fanuc
Sonnen
Improbable
Movidius
Intrexon
Carbon
Bosch
T2 Biosystems
Editas Medicine
Nestlé
Retrosense Therapeutics
Line (Subsidiary of Naver)
TransferWise
Veritas Genetics
FireEye
Seven Bridges
Slack
Coupang
IBM
Snapchat
Africa Internet Group
LittleBits
Intel
Monsanto

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