Baidu

Baidu [itbyte.net]

Rank on the full list: 31

Country: China

12-Month Sales Growth (%): 23.7

5-Year Annualized Total Return (%): 35.1

Innovation Premium (%): 46.5

Baidu, the biggest search engine in China, has spent US$650 million on research and development in order to offer more mobile services to users. It released a mobile pay service for Baidu Wallet in April. It has also invited Andrew Ng, a Google scientist, to be the director of its artificial intelligence laboratory.