Editorial made for Fast Company Magazine. Article: The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies.

01. Apple For walking the talk 02. Facebook For 800 million reasons to share 03. Google For expanding its hit lineup 04. Amazon For playing the long game 05. Square For making magic out of the mercantile 06. Twitter For amplifying the global dialogue 07. Occupy Movement For embodying all the traits that make a Fast Company 08. Tencent For fueling China’s Internet boom--and boldly moving West 09. Life Technologies For speeding up genetic sequencing 10. SolarCity For brightening up the sun-power business 11. HBO For being the only TV network to delight with digital 12. Southern New Hampshire University For relentlessly reinventing higher ed, online and off 13. Tesla Motors For boosting the art and technology of electric vehicles 14. Patagonia For selling more by encouraging customers to buy less 15. NFL For stoking insatiable, year-round demand for professional football 16. National Marrow Donor Program For matching technology with critical transplant needs 17. Greenbox For inventing the next-generation Chinese fashion brand 18. Jawbone For rocking the mobile lifestyle 19. Airbnb For turning spare rooms into the world’s hottest hotel chain 20. 72andSunny For winning at the intersection of Hollywood and Madison Avenue 21. Siemens AG For its R&D ambitions in energy, transportation, and health care 22. Dropbox For transforming file storage into a very big business 23. Kiva Systems For turning squat robots into e-commerce giants 24. Starbucks For infusing a steady stream of new ideas to revive its business 25. Genentech For making targeted, genetics-based cancer therapies 26. LegalZoom For bringing tech and accessibility to the hidebound legal industry 27. Tapjoy For driving advertiser engagement in a million-app world 28. Polyvore For turning everyone into a fashion editor 29. Red Bull Media House For showing what it really means to transform yourself into a media brand 30. LinkedIn For making itself useful even when you're not job searching 31. Liquid Robotics For going deep in ocean monitoring 32. Gogo For delivering first-class entertainment to the coach-bound masses 33. Bug Agentes Biológicos For breeding a natural alternative to harmful agricultural pesticides 34. Chipotle For exploding all the rules of fast food 35. James Corner Field Operations For creating intimate green spaces out of industrial urban blight 36. Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospitals For bringing medical care to the masses 37. Recyclebank For making eco-friendly behavior a big game 38. UPS For solving its customers' number-one pet peeve 39. Networked Insights For using real-time social data to make better products and advertising 40. Chobani For becoming a dairy superstar 41. Kickstarter For connecting creatives with fans to raise funds 42. SoundCloud For giving the Internet a voice 43. PayPal For recharging the sale 44. Berg For wildly imagining the marriage of the digital and physical worlds 45. Boo-box For pioneering social-media advertising in Latin America 46. Amyris For driving biofuels into the mainstream 47. Knewton For teaching education a thing or two 48. RedBus For taking the wheel of the $2.5 billion Indian bus-travel industry 49. OpenSky For creating a social, celebrity-powered shopping experience 50. Y Combinator For building the next great Silicon Valley mafia