3. Company: Amazon.com

Rank: 3

Overall score: 7.45

CEO: Jeff Bezos

Amazon is trying to crack a new technique by sacrificing profits in the short term to let it gain in the long term which is evident with the fact that 2011 revenues climbed to $48 billion and its net income dropped 55% to $631 million. But each one of us knows the Kindle Fire, the tablet by Amazon which sold like hot cake last holiday season alone with 6 million units.

4. Company: IBM

Rank: 5

Overall score: 7.79

CEO: Ginni Rometty

The company which holds its stature for the largest influx of patents across the year,

IBM (International Business Machines) was born in 1911 from the merger of three disparate-seeming businesses to become the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. And 100 years down the lane, IBM recorded an annual profit of $15.9 billion, a 7% year-over-year increase.

IBM’s idea of a Smarter Planet through its ongoing campaign, by the same name is rendered to solve real-world problems, from traffic congestion to water management.