{"id":6757,"date":"2014-10-29T10:20:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T02:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=6757"},"modified":"2014-10-29T10:20:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T02:20:14","slug":"apple-still-innovative-company-samsung-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2014\/10\/29\/apple-still-innovative-company-samsung-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple is still the most innovative company; Samsung at No. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2014 list of most innovative companies released today by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), technology and telecommunications companies once again lead the pack, holding down all of the top 5 spots in 2014, 7 of the top 10, and 21 of the top 50\u2014the most since 2010. Consumer industries, with 10 of the top 50 slots, capture the second largest share.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has been number one every year since 2005. Samsung and Google switched places again at numbers two and three. Microsoft and IBM round out the top five.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, BCG again asked respondents to name up-and-coming companies\u2014companies that are still relatively young or have yet to reach the scale of the top 50 global giants but are making themselves known for innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Xiaomi Technology, WhatsApp, and Square lead this list. There was 50 percent turnover on the up-and-coming list, with only four companies returning from 2013. Last year\u2019s up-and-comers all leveraged mobile platforms in one way or another; this year\u2019s list comprises more varied innovators: consumer products, auto, media, and big-data companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2014 list of most innovative companies released by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), technology and telecommunications companies once again lead the pack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3364,1613,337,3362,2151,359],"class_list":["post-6757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-apple","tag-boston-consulting-group","tag-google","tag-microsoft","tag-most-innovative-companies","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}