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미국 매사추세츠 공과 대학의 기관지 MIT Technology Review가 지난해 실적에 근거한 "50 Smastest Companies"(세계에서 가장 혁신적인 50개 기업)의 랭킹 2016년판을 발표.

이 랭킹은 중요한 이노베이션을 일으킨 기업에 초점이 맞춰졌고 작년까지와 달리 올해부터는 모바일 인기가 끝나면서 많은 순위가 변화되고 있다. 1위는 아마존(전년 13위)으로 클라우드 기반의 음성 어시스턴트 서비스 Alexa를 채용한 Amazon Echo/Dot/Tap과 Amazon Web Services 등이 높게 평가되어 1위로 선출.

2위는 중국의 최대 검색 엔진을 제공하는 Baidu(바이두,전년 21위), 3위는 전기 자동차로 유명한 테슬라 모터스가 차지.

IT 관련 분야에서는 8위에 알파벳(전년 12위), 10위에 화웨이(신규 진입), 12위에 엔비디아(전년 28위), 15위에 페이스북(전년 29위), 20위에 텐센트(전년 7위), 26위에 마이크로소프트(전년 48위), 38위에 라인(전년 37위), 45위에 IBM(전년 46위), 46위에 스냅챗(전년 47위), 49위에 인텔(신규 진입)이 랭크됐고 지난해 16위에 올랐던 애플은 올해 순위에서 삭제됐다.

- 이하 순위

1. 1

2. Amazon

4. Why

5. Call out a request and AI-powered Alexa will play your favorite song or order you a pizza. And Amazon Web Services just keeps growing.

6. $89.99

7. What the Echo Dot, the most affordable device to feature Alexa Voice Service, sells for.
8. Company Details
9. 2

   Baidu

   Why

   China’s leading search engine is developing autonomous cars, backed by a big research and engineering team in Silicon Valley.

   100

   Baidu plans to employ more than 100 autonomous-car researchers and engineers in California by year’s end.

   Company Details
10. 3

    Illumina

    Why

    The world’s largest DNA-sequencing company is moving beyond simply selling equipment to expand its uses: a company it’s launching, Grail, intends to develop a blood test that would screen for cancer before symptoms appear.

    $2.2 billion

    Revenue reached last year, up 19 percent from the previous year.

    Company Details
11. 4

    Tesla Motors

    Why

    While advancing autopilot technology in its Model S and X cars, the company is taking electric vehicles mainstream with its $35,000 Model 3 car, which already has 400,000 pre-orders.

    50 percent

    According to CEO Elon Musk, drivers have a 50 percent lower chance of having an accident when driving with Tesla Autopilot.

    Company Details
12. 5

    Aquion Energy

    Why

    Its innovative batteries for the power grid make this startup unusually successful in a tough industry.

    Backers

    Include Bill Gates, Shell.

    Company Details
13. 6

    Mobileye

    Why

    A leader in making driver assistance technology such as collision warning systems for clients including Tesla, General Motors, and Volkswagen, among others, it is working on advances that will enable fully autonomous cars.

    600

    Number of employees who are annotating the images used to train its autonomous driving system.

    Company Details
14. 7

    23andMe

    Why

    After a two-year moratorium, 23andMe has resumed selling direct-to-consumer DNA tests that assess risk for genetic diseases.

    One million

    The company has sequenced the DNA of more than one million customers.

    Company Details
15. 8

    Alphabet

    Why

    Its DeepMind business inside Google developed an AI program that beat one of the world’s best players at the board game Go.

    1.6 million

    Number of miles Alphabet’s autonomous cars have driven so far.

    Company Details
16. 9

    Spark Therapeutics

    Why

    Very strong trial data on its gene therapy for a form of blindness implies that the treatment is headed for approval.

    Collaborators

    Corporate collaborators have included Pfizer, Genable Technologies, and Clearside Biomedical.

    Company Details
17. 10

    Huawei

    Why

    This Chinese telecommunications giant is now the world’s third-largest smartphone vendor thanks to strong sales in both premium and entry-level devices.

    27.5 million

    Number of smartphones Huawei shipped in the first quarter of 2016, according to market researcher IDC.

    Company Details
18. 11

    First Solar

    Why

    While rivals face bankruptcy, it has continued to invest in research, increasing the efficiency of solar panels.

    $546 million

    Profits earned in 2015.

    Company Details
19. 12

    Nvidia

    Why

    With deep learning driving demand for its graphics-processing chips, it started selling chips designed for AI.

    $1.3 billion

    Revenue increased 13 percent in the most recent quarter, to $1.3 billion, compared with $1.15 billion a year ago.

    Company Details
20. 13

    Cellectis

    Why

    Last summer a hospital in London used Cellectis’s gene-editing technology to heal a child with otherwise untreatable leukemia.

    $300 million

    Though not profitable, the company has over $300 million in cash, enough to last through 2018.

    Company Details
21. 14

    Enlitic

    Why

    A number of Australian radiologists are now using the company’s deep-learning software to analyze x-rays.

    50 percent

    Claims its algorithm read chest CT images 50 percent more accurately than experts in its own test.

    Company Details
22. 15

    Facebook

    Why

    Its Oculus Rift technology is the first truly high-quality virtual-reality headset for consumers.

    $599

    Rift sells for $599.

    Company Details
23. 16

    SpaceX

    Why

    The company is making spaceflight cheaper with rockets that can land and be reused.

    Four

    Number of times SpaceX attempted to land a rocket on a barge before succeeding.

    Company Details
24. 17

    Toyota

    Why

    Dramatically rethinking its future, the carmaker has committed $1 billion to an automation institute.

    Leader

    Roboticist Gill Pratt is CEO of the Toyota Research Institute.

    Company Details
25. 18

    Airware

    Why

    Building an operating system for commercial drones, as well as a traffic control system that could increase their usefulness.

    Leader

    Airware’s founder and CEO also leads an investment fund that supports businesses creating technologies for commercial drones.

    Company Details
26. 19

    IDE Technologies

    Why

    Its large-scale desalination process is winning big contracts in China and Australia.

    30 percent

    By October IDE will be producing 30 percent of Santa Barbara’s water.

    Company Details
27. 20

    Tencent

    Why

    Asia’s largest Internet company, which owns the popular WeChat messaging app, is expanding into the enterprise market and investing in other technology companies.

    78 percent

    Tencent’s largest business segment, mostly games, accounts for 78 percent of its revenue.

    Company Details
28. 21

    Didi Chuxing

    Why

    Apple’s $1 billion investment, part of $7 billion raised this year, will help the Chinese ride-hailing app continue to fend off Uber.

    14 million

    Number of rides its drivers complete a day.

    Company Details
29. 22

    Oxford Nanopore

    Why

    It’s begun selling a DNA sequencer the size of a smartphone that may move genomics out of the lab and into the field.

    Intellectual property

    Illumina, once an investor, is now suing the company for patent infringement.

    Company Details
30. 23

    24M

    Why

    Created a more efficient lithium-ion battery that could reduce the cost of energy storage for the electric grid and electric vehicles.

    50 percent

    The company claims it can reduce the cost of lithium-ion batteries by 50 percent.

    Company Details
31. 24

    Alibaba

    Why

    E-commerce site is now the world’s largest retailer and will benefit from the growth in mobile video ads.

    $485 billion

    Gross value of merchandise sold through Alibaba in its last fiscal year.

    Company Details
32. 25

    Bristol-Myers Squibb

    Why

    Uses of its life-saving immunotherapy, Opdivo, has expanded to lung cancer, advanced renal-cell carcinoma, and Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

    Five years

    One-third of patients with advanced melanoma survived for five years in a study of Opdivo.

    Company Details
33. 26

    Microsoft

    Why

    Its neural-network research is leading to applications such as simultaneous language translation in Skype and social augmented-reality experiences in its new HoloLens headset.

    152

    A Microsoft network that won a global image recognition contest in 2015 used 152 layers of virtual neurons.

    Company Details
34. 27

    Fanuc

    Why

    World’s largest maker of industrial robots is incorporating machine learning.

    Eight

    Number of hours a Fanuc robot needs to learn a task with 90 percent accuracy.

    Company Details
35. 28

    Sonnen

    Why

    Its smart batteries, which include software to manage energy use and can store energy for later, are transforming the electricity market in Germany.

    25 percent

    Electricity on its system is 25 percent cheaper than the electricity on the grid, according to the company.

    Company Details
36. 29

    Improbable

    Why

    Its virtual-world simulation platform is used to create VR software and test driverless cars.

    Funding

    Andreessen Horowitz is a major backer.

    Company Details
37. 30

    Movidius

    Why

    Its computer-vision chips are making mobile devices and drones smarter.

    On the radar

    Drones using Movidius technology can sense obstacles to avoid collisions.

    Company Details
38. 31

    Intrexon

    Why

    The Oxitec division of this biotech holding company genetically engineers mosquitoes that could reduce the spread of Zika.

    $174 million

    Acquisitions increased sales from $8 million to $174 million in five years.

    Company Details
39. 32

    Carbon

    Why

    Its new kind of 3-D printing is dozens of times faster than rivals’.

    $40,000

    Use of its 3-D printers costs $40,000 a year.

    Company Details
40. 33

    Bosch

    Why

    Advanced manufacturing facilities it is developing rely on connected sensors and sophisticated software to improve factory efficiency.

    $80 billion

    Record revenue generated in 2015.

    Company Details
41. 34

    T2 Biosystems

    Why

    Its flexible tool for diagnosing abnormalities more quickly has FDA approval for certain uses, including detecting a fungus that causes sepsis.

    35

    Number of customers who now use the company’s bench-top diagnostic system.

    Company Details
42. 35

    Editas Medicine

    Why

    Plans to begin testing a powerful new form of gene repair in humans within two years.

    $94 million

    Money raised in its February IPO, and the stock is up 85 percent since then.

    Company Details
43. 36

    Nestlé

    Why

    Food giant has jumped into microbiome research, working to develop “healthy gut” products.

    $2 billion

    At a slow time for its core food business, its nutritional therapies division has reached $2 billion in annual revenue in its first five years, and more strong growth is predicted.

    Company Details
44. 37

    RetroSense Therapeutics

    Why

    Has begun first human trials of optogenetics, using light-triggered genetic changes to restore some vision to people with retinitis pigmentosa.

    $12 million

    Revenue raised from foundations and private investors as well as the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.

    Company Details
45. 38

    Line, subsidiary of Naver

    Why

    The Japanese messaging app is quick to add innovative features, such as group calls for up to 200 people, and plans an IPO this year.

    218 million

    Number of monthly active users.

    Company Details
46. 39

    TransferWise

    Why

    This money-transfer service, with a peer-to-peer model for sending money abroad, aims to charge lower fees than traditional players.

    $750 million

    Money TransferWise helps users exchange every month.

    Company Details
47. 40

    Veritas Genetics

    Why

    Attempting to sell low-cost genome tests directly to consumers.

    $1,000

    Whole-genome sequencing, including interpretation and counseling, costs under $1,000. The supply is limited to 5,000 customers in 2016.

    Company Details
48. 41

    FireEye

    Why

    With clients like JPMorgan Chase, Sony Pictures, and Target, it’s creating a new model for computer security on a large scale.

    In the works

    New products focus on securing public and private clouds and detecting targeted e-mail attacks.

    Company Details
49. 42

    Seven Bridges

    Why

    Its software makes it possible to analyze one of the world’s largest genomic data sets.

    11,000

    Number of patients that have contributed 33 cancer types and subtypes to its Cancer Genomics Cloud.

    Company Details
50. 43

    Slack

    Why

    The workplace communications app burrows more deeply into workplaces. Now you can use your Slack login for all the software your company uses.

    Three million

    Number of daily active Slack users.

    Company Details
51. 44

    Coupang

    Why

    South Korea’s largest and fastest-growing online-only retailer is innovating in mobile commerce and same-day delivery.

    $5 billion

    Coupang’s most recent valuation.

    Company Details
52. 45

    IBM

    Why

    Preparing for an AI era by acquiring huge data sets to train its software.

    100

    Number of clients that have built Watson into a product.

    Company Details
53. 46

    Snapchat

    Why

    Building out its advertising business by partnering with Viacom to sell ads and with Nielsen for marketing campaign data.

    10 billion

    Number of videos that are seen on the app every day.

    Company Details
54. 47

    Africa Internet Group

    Why

    This e-commerce company is the continent’s first tech company to be valued at more than $1 billion.

    26

    Africa Internet Group operates in 26 African countries.

    Company Details
55. 48

    LittleBits

    Why

    Maker of electronic building blocks has accelerated its growth with new funding, new investors, and new distribution.

    $299

    Basic kits sell for $99 to $299.

    Company Details
56. 49

    Intel

    Why

    In a time of transition, the chip maker is experimenting with reprogrammable processors for deep neural networks and marketing a fundamentally new kind of computer memory.

    $16.7 billion

    Money Intel spent to buy Altera, a maker of programmable logic devices.

    Company Details
57. 50

    Monsanto

    
    

미국 Dell은 퓨어 태블릿을 철수하고 앞으로 2in1에 주력한다고 밝혔다.

Dell의 Kirl Schell이 이 회사 사이트상에 공개한 투고에 따르면 퓨어 태블릿에는 업무에서 이용할 만한 프로세서 파워가 없어 기업·개인을 막론하고 시장에서도 구입 의사가 줄었고 특히 기업 시장에서는 PC의 상대가 되지 않는다고 판단하여 퓨어 태블릿 사업을 철수한다. 기고에서는 설명하지 않았으나 여기서 말하는 퓨어 태블릿은 안드로이드 태블릿을 지칭하는 것으로 여겨진다.

한편 클램쉘으로서 이용을 주 목적으로 액정을 분리하여 태블릿으로 이용할 수 있는 2in1 PC는 태블릿보다 높은 성능으로 업무가 가능하고 간편하게 들어 나르며 다양한 환경에서 이용할 수 있는 점에서 호평을 받으며 적극적인 투자 개발을 계속한다.

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