Wired 40 Released : Google on Top

The popular Wired magazine has released the Wired 40 list. Google has emerged on top displacing Apple, which topped the Wired 40 in 2005.

“What makes a company wired? We start by looking for the basics: strategic vision, global reach, killer technology. But that’s not enough. To land a spot on our annual Wired 40 list, a business also needs the X-factor – a hunger for new ideas and an impatience to put them into practice. Such companies inevitably become trendsetters, literally: As we debated and redebated the list this year, six major themes flickered into view. From the rise of peer production to the end of carbon pollution, they tell us where the world is heading. These are the companies leading the way.”

Google, Apple and Samsung have emerged the top 3 in this Wired 40 list.