World's Most Innovative Companies

Google

Google another big name in the internet related products and services and it provides services such as internet search, cloud computing, software and advertising technologies. The company’s profits are generated from the Adwords, the advertising revenue. The Stanford University students Larry Page and Sergey Brin were the founder of Google. Initially it was privately held company and its initial public offering was held in 2004. Due to the rapid growth many new chain of products, acquisitions and partnerships have come up. It offers online productivity software including email, an office suite and social networking. There other extending products are desktop, with applications for web browsing, organising and editing photos and instant messaging. It also leads in the development of the Android mobile operating system. In 2009 Alexa listed google.com as the most visited website. There average sales growth in the last 5 years is 35 percent, the net income growth is 37.1 percent, the enterprise value is $138.1 billion and the innovation premium is 44.9 percent.