Amazon debuts in Thomson Reuters 2015 top 100 innovators list | Reuters | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Online marketplace Amazon.com made its debut in the 2015 Thomson Reuters Top 100 global innovators list, leaving International Business Machines, the world's largest technology services company, out of the list.


Amazon joins the innovators list for the first time for innovations in data centers, devices, electronic methods and systems, according to its latest report.


The Thomson Reuters Top 100 global innovators program identifies innovators annually through an in-depth analysis based on a series of patent-related metrics that analyze what it means to be truly innovative. There are 27 companies that are dropped from the list this year, including AT&T (T.N), IBM (IBM.N), Siemens (SIEGn.DE) and Xerox (XRX.N)....