Six Indian companies make it to BusinessWeek's top-100

Six Indian companies have made it to the 2007 Information Technology 100, BusinessWeek's ranking of the top 100 global technology performers. The list includes companies in Web retail, telecom, wireless, and technology product and software services.

The Indian companies are: Bharti Airtel, Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro, Satyam Computer Services and HCL Technologies. The US-based Cognizant Technology Solutions, which has most of its development centres in India, is also in the list. This year cable companies that expanded into telecom were also included, says BusinessWeek on its Web site.

Bharti was the top ranking Indian company in the list, but dropped to 14th this year from the 10th place last year. Satyam dropped to 73 from 48 last year while Infosys, TCS and Wipro have moved up, and HCL made it to the list this year.

TCS moved to 23rd position from 34th last year; Infosys moved 12 places ahead to 30th and Wipro eight places ahead to 49. Cognizant was ranked this year at 70, up from 84th position last year, says the report to be published on July 2 issue of BusinessWeek.