#9 Accenture

Top 50 rank: 44

Rank in Information Technology Services: 2 (Previous rank: 2)

Overall score: 7.10

Headquarters: Dublin, Ireland.

Pierre Nanterme is CEO of Accenture.

It is one of the world's largest consulting firms measured by revenues and is a constituent of the Fortune Global 500 list. As of September 2012, the company had more than 257,000 employees across 120 countries. India currently is the single largest employee base for Accenture, with the headcount expected to reach 80,000 in August 2012. In the US, it has about 40,000 employees and in the Philippines 35,000. Accenture's current clients include 94 of the Fortune Global 100 and more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500.

#8 Intel

Top 50 rank: 42

Rank in Semiconductors: 1 (Previous rank: 1)

Overall score: 7.07

Headquarters: Santa Clara, CA.

Paul S. Otellini is President and ex-chief executive of Intel who recently gave way to Brian Krzanich to helm the company.

Intel Corporation is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation and it is the world's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers. Intel also makes motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphic chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing.

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