NerdWallet, a consumer advocacy website, analyzed the fifty largest U.S. metropolitan areas to find out which ones were the healthiest.

To come up with the list, NerdWallet looked at overall fitness, air cleanliness, health insurance coverage and access to physicians (You can read the full methodology here).

All of the cities that made the top 15 ranked highly across all categories, and most also had citywide public programs in effect to help their residents stay fit.

Boston took home the top spot this year. But cities in Colorado, Minnesota, and California also made it into the rankings.

#15 — Buffalo, NY

Overall Health Score: 59.4

Buffalo has one of the highest rates of health insurance coverage in the country at 92.4% of residents insured.

Its Green and Healthy Homes Initiative is also reducing lead poisoning and mold exposure for residents by repairing old homes.

NerdWallet looked at data from the American Fitness Index, the American Lung Association’s 2013 State of the Air report, and census data on health insurance coverage and the number of physicians per 100,000 residents. The 50 largest metro areas in the U.S. were included in the analysis.

#14 — Salt Lake City, UT

Overall Health Score: 59.7

The people of Salt Lake City have ample access to ski resorts, hiking trails, and fishing spots in their beloved hometown.

Residents tend to be insured and in shape, plus the clean air makes being outdoors all the more enjoyable.

NerdWallet looked at data from the American Fitness Index, the American Lung Association’s 2013 State of the Air report, and census data on health insurance coverage and the number of physicians per 100,000 residents. The 50 largest metro areas in the U.S. were included in the analysis.

#13 — Virginia Beach, VA

Overall Health Score: 61.5

The population of Virginia Beach benefits from clean air and ample health care.

There are also organizations like the Virginia Business Coalition on Health that encourages businesses to prioritize the health of their workers.

NerdWallet looked at data from the American Fitness Index, the American Lung Association’s 2013 State of the Air report, and census data on health insurance coverage and the number of physicians per 100,000 residents. The 50 largest metro areas in the U.S. were included in the analysis.

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The first footage for "Call of Duty: Ghosts" was unveiled during the reveal of the new Xbox One game and entertainment system. 

The game looks stunning and will offer infinitely more graphical detail than previous "Call Of Duty" (CoD) games. 

Bring on the blood, bruises, and dirt. CoD will offer multiplayer, underwater features, a new cast, and character customization among other things.

During the Xbox Reveal, the game was compared to "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" to show just how far the graphics have come. 

A comparison that will surely be made is to the upcoming Battlefield 4. 

"Call of Duty: Ghosts" lands on November 5 on both Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, followed by releases on Xbox One and PS4, so no need to fight about it. 

Here's how a character looked in "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" (MW3).

And here's how they'll look in "Call of Duty: Ghost." (Ghost)

The new game is aiming to make the characters look even more lifelike.

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Drew Barrymore has listed the California mansion where she married husband Will Kopelman last year for $7.5 million, according to real estate website Trulia.

Barrymore originally bought the home in 2010 for $5.7 million, long before meeting her husband or giving birth to their daughter, Olive.

The Montecito estate has a gorgeous 1937 home built on two acres of property, and is currently listed through Sotheby's International Realty agent Suzanne Perkins.

The two-story mansion has six bedrooms, a separate guest apartment, remote-controlled property gates, and a huge backyard — big enough for Barrymore and Kopelman to hold their star-studded, 190-guest wedding.

Welcome to Drew Barrymore's Montecito mansion in California.

The actress's property sits on two acres of lush land with roses and fruit trees.

The inside foyer isn't too showy, and welcomes guests into the 6,258-square-foot home.

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Don't let the white picket fences fool you.

Suburban poverty has grown faster than anywhere else in the country over the last decade, at a rate of 64% since 2000, according to "Confronting Suburban Poverty in America," a new book by the Brookings Institute. 

For the first time ever, the number of poor people in America's largest suburbs outnumbers those in cities. It's a nationwide trend that's left pretty much no region untouched.

Eighty-five of the nation's 95 largest metro areas saw a rise in poor households between 2000 and 2011. 

"As jobs moved into suburbs—particularly lower-paying jobs in sectors like retail and hospitality—poverty did, too," the authors write. "And job losses triggered by the Great Recession in industries like construction, manufacturing, and retail hit hardest in suburban communities and contributed to rising suburban unemployment and poverty."

The number of poor households in the suburbs of Dayton, Ohio increased 109% to 97,581 from 2000 to 2011.

The increase in poverty was tracked by the Brookings Institute in "Confronting Suburban Poverty in America."

The number of poor households in Dallas increased 111% to 474,023 from 2000 to 2011.

Dallas metro area includes Fort Worth and Arlington. The increase in poverty was tracked by the Brookings Institute in "Confronting Suburban Poverty in America."

The number of poor households in Charlotte, N.C. increased 113% to 140,760 from 2000 to 2011.

Charlotte metro area also includes Gastonia and Rock Hill. The increase in poverty was tracked by the Brookings Institute in "Confronting Suburban Poverty in America."

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Almost all scientists now agree that global climate change is caused by humans. A steadily-warming planet impacts the environment in many different ways. 

Rising global temperatures, largely due to man-made greenhouse gases, are the source of widely-discussed observable changes to the Earth like melting glaciers, rising sea levels, warming oceans, and more extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, droughts, forest fires, and floods.

In the pictures that follow, we take a look at how climate-change-related events have affected regions around the world, whether directly or indirectly.

ROCKY NATIONAL PARK BEFORE: Healthy pine trees stretch for tens of millions of acres in the northwestern United States and western Canada.

ROCKY NATIONAL PARK NOW: A hillside of dead pine trees killed by Mountain Pine Beetles shows the effects of warming temperatures in the mountain ranges. In the past, freezing temperatures reduced insect populations. The beetles are now able to survive the milder winters leading to devastating infestations.

THE GREAT BARRIER BEFORE: Considered one of the most biologically-diverse regions in the world, Australia's Great Barrier covers around 135,000 square miles, or an area that's nearly the size of Texas. Ocean acidification and temperature increases from climate change are the reef's biggest long-term threat.

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Right now is not the most promising environment students have ever graduated into. Students fear entering a job market that doesn't want them, and losing vital years of their careers. 

Great advice is needed more than ever. In its latest "Influencers" series, LinkedIn asked 70+ top professionals, from Fortune 500 CEOs to media icons what the class of 2013 needs to succeed.  

Some share their commencement speeches while others share the things that they wish they knew before starting out.

They explain everything from how to create your own company to how to overcome what seems like constant rejection from employers, because they've all done it before, and succeeded wildly.

Jim Kim, President at The World Bank

"I’m sure many of you are more than a little concerned about what the future will bring. I just want to say to you today that not only is your future uncertain, but the overwhelming likelihood is that it’s far more uncertain than you think.

"Uncertainty means that nothing is predetermined. Uncertainty means that the future is yours to shape — with the force of your will, the force of your intellect, and the force of your compassion. Uncertainty is freedom. Take that freedom and run with it. And make sure to fuel up with glucose along the way."

Part of the commencement address delivered at Northeastern University in Boston in May 2013.

Source: LinkedIn

Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group

"The best advice I could give any graduate is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life. If your degree was focused upon one particular area, don't let that stop you moving in another direction. If college hasn't worked out for you, don't let that put you off.

"You may decide to take a break and consider your options. I would urge you to travel, take on new experiences and draw upon those when it comes to making the decisions that will shape your future. The amount of business ideas that people pick up from traveling the world is enormous."

Source: LinkedIn

Arianna Huffington, president and Editor-in-Chief at The Huffington Post Media Group

"Commencement speakers are traditionally expected to tell graduates how to go out there and climb the ladder of success, but I want to ask you, instead, to redefine success. Because the world you are headed into desperately needs it. And because you are up to it ... what I urge you to do is not just take your place at the top of the world, but to change the world.

"But it's time for a third metric, beyond money and power — one founded on well-being, wisdom, our ability to wonder, and to give back. Money and power by themselves are a two legged stool — you can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over. And more and more people, very successful people, are toppling over. Basically, success the way we've defined it is no longer sustainable. It's no longer sustainable for human beings or for societies."

Part of the commencement address delivered at Smith College in May 2013.

Source: LinkedIn

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Tim Duncan is just three wins away from going back to the NBA finals at the age of 37. But despite already having four championship rings and two MVP trophies, Duncan is still somewhat of an anonymous figure in a league that breeds superstars.

Many factors have contributed to Duncan's under-the-radar success, from his upbringing, to his unusual longevity in college, and the city where he now plays home games.

In addition, Duncan's success came in the shadows of some of the game's greats, and his titles came at some unlucky times.

On the next few pages we'll take a closer look at just how Duncan has been so successful without all the accolades of lesser players.

Duncan grew up in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, so he was not on the radar of American media like many young basketball stars

Duncan didn't even start playing basketball until ninth grade. Prior to that he had dreams of becoming an Olympic swimmer and was a top U.S. junior swimmer in the 400 freestyle.

When Hurricane Hugo destroyed his local pool in 1989, Duncan was forced to practice in the ocean. He later said swimming lost its appeal because there were no competitions at this time.

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I recently switched from using a Windows PC and Android phones to all-Apple products, all the time.

My new iPhone 5 and MacBook Pro are definitely really cool.

But when I was a PC/Android user (with an Acer laptop and phones by HTC and Samsung), Apple fans gave me the impression that angels sang every time they opened a MacBook, and that I'd never want to go back to the intolerably uncool world outside the iPhone.

Instead, I was surprised to learn that some parts of the Apple universe are a few steps behind the pace. Using Apple gadgets actually made my life harder, in some ways.

There's no "menu" button on the iPhone.

In Android, whenever you get lost you just hit the menu button and you get a bunch of options — such as settings — to help you fix whatever you want to change.

There's no menu button on iPhone. Instead, the home button mostly pulls you out of whatever you are doing and drops you back on your home screen.

Sure, many of the apps and menus inside iPhone have a "back" button. But it's not the same. In iPhone, you have to get used to taking the long way around.

In iPhone, if you want to phone someone you're texting with, you have to scroll all the way up to the top of the message chain to hit the call button. In Android, you just tap the person's name anywhere and a call option pops up.

It feels as if my iPhone is going to break at any moment.

My new iPhone 5 may be made out of pretty metal, but it scratches easily.

And although I'm told that the rate at which the iPhone screen smashes is small, the world seems to be filled with busted iPhone screens, even among my own colleagues.

Yes, all smartphones can get dings and scratches, but I liked that my old Android phone was made of plastic, which made it more resistant to wear and tear.

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Animoto, which makes a video slideshow creation app, is based in New York City, with an additional office in San Francisco.

The company creates compelling video skins for photo slideshows. That means they take your photos and put them into a cool video format with some added music. It's quick and very, very easy to use.

When the company celebrated its fifth birthday this past January, it logged more than 6 million registered users and 30 million videos created. More recently, it launched an enhanced version of its platform geared towards professional photographers.

We stopped by their New York office to see how they do what they do.

At the office you open a nondescript door which leads you into Animoto's spacious main area with loads of natural light. There is a relaxed and friendly feel.

And you quickly see the faces behind that feel. Animoto is all about telling stories visually. They also believe in using employees' existing skills and passions ... all the portraits were taken by one of the company's developers.

Developer Justin Camerer (left), was originally from St. Louis, and has been with Animoto for two years.

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The difference between a job you love and a job you hate is usually one thing: the company's culture.

These days, lots of tech startups have adopted cultural perks like free food, pool table/games, and beers on tap.

But others have come up with new ways to make their companies great places to work. They've "hacked" their culture, according to this discussion thread on Quora.

Maptia's founders moved the whole company to Morocco

Jonny Miller, cofounder at Maptia and an avid surfer, has the best hack we've ever heard of.

He and his two co-founders moved their company to Morocco, a low-cost way to have an office on the beach.

Maptia's graduated from the TechStars Seattle program at the end of 2012 and then the founders' visas expired. Instead of going home to London, they wanted a cheaper place where their $100,000 in seed money would last until they launched their beta. They are building a travel discovery site.

So they "spun the globe and found a cheap apartment only ten meters from the Atlantic ocean in the Moroccan surf town of Taghazout." (It's the second floor of the white building, pictured.)

All five Maptia team members live there. They stop work when the surf it up and the cost of living is so low, they can feed themselves on $10 per person week, Miller says.

Commerce Sciences has the last person to join create a welcome kit for the next person to join

Commerce Sciences has a cool tradition for an employee's first day at work, says Oren Ellenbogen, an engineer at the Palo Alto, Calif., startup.

"The last person to join the company is responsible to create a 'starter kit' for the next one to join. Each kit is totally different and personalized (depending on how creative the last person is :)), ranging from funny jokes, interesting books to Nerf Guns and coffee capsules," he says.

At Expertcity, hearing the bell ring means free breakfast

A lot of companies have bells in their offices that people ring when they sign a new customer contract or have announcements.

But at Expertcity, there was a unique rule about the bell: If you rang it without a good reason, you had to buy breakfast for the whole company the next day, says John Greathouse, who was CFO at the time.

Expertcity was the startup that created GoToMeeting and GoToMyPC and was sold to Citrix in 2003.

Greathouse was originally opposed to the bell because he felt employees would think it was "a cheesy, faux motivational tool" but people loved it.

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Last week, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization suggested that edible insects could help secure the global food supply, fight world hunger, reduce greenhouse gases, and help save the environment.

We started wondering, which insects could we incorporate into our diet?

About two billion people around the world, mostly in tropical regions, already belong to cultures that traditionally consume insects. Insect-eating is even making its way into high-end dining.  

We talked to Purdue University entomologist Tom Turpin and one of the report's co-authors, Arnold van Huis, for insights into the best edible bugs.

Mealworms are one of the few edible insects commercially available throughout the United States. They have a lot of healthy fats and are high in Vitamins A and B (including B12). "We gave people mealworm meatballs, which in a blind taste test they preferred over regular meatballs," van Huis said.

"When we do our demos, we cook mealworms in some kind of cooking oil or even butter, and you just stir fry them and they taste a little bit like popcorn," Turpin told Business Insider.

Tropical crickets, such as this one in Cambodia, are much larger than those found in cooler regions, and are packed with nutrients. "One of my students did a study on greenhouse gases, and found that insects emit 100 times less greenhouse gases than conventional livestock," van Huis said.

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Back in the 1950s, St. Louis commissioned a public housing project unlike any in history.

Designed by Minoru Yamasaki — the architect who would later design the World Trade Center — the Pruitt-Igoe housing project was hailed as "vertical neighborhood for poor people" and named the building of the year by "Architectural Forum."

Things looked great when the building opened in 1956, but within years everything went horribly wrong. For various reasons, Pruitt-Igoe turned into a ghetto, neglected, deteriorating, and dangerous, and by the mid-1970s, the building was demolished.

A 2011 documentary by Chad Friedrichs called "The Pruitt-Igoe Myth" chronicles the rise and fall of the housing project. We've broken out some highlights in the following slideshow. Also check out upcoming screenings in New York, Grand Rapids, Oklahoma City, and Pittsburgh.

Prior to the construction of Pruitt-Igoe, the working class residents of St. Louis were crammed into slums with communal bathrooms (or none at all), unreliable electricity, and streets filled with trash.

Source: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

Reformers wanted to remove people from the inhumane conditions of the slums, and local politicians thought they were an eyesore. So beginning in the late 1940s, federal and state governments began funding massive public housing projects in inner cities.

Source: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

Pruitt-Igoe was built with that big federal spending push. It cost around $36 million to construct and was designed by Minoru Yamasaki, who later designed the World Trade Center towers.

Source: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

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When I rolled into Philly last Friday, I only had one end goal in mind:  

To prove that this town has more going for it than cheesesteaks and Ben Franklin impersonators, and to do it with less than a hundred bucks.

Since it was May (i.e.: high outdoor market season), I decided to hit up two of the city's iconic –– and wildly different –– street festivals: The historic Italian Market Festival and the über-trendy Rittenhouse Square Row Festival. 

The two are held only 20 or so blocks apart, but the differences couldn't have been any more stark. 

First, let's set the scene. The festivals are just over a mile apart, with the Italian Market Festival (A) further South and Rittenhouse Square (B) closer to downtown.

They couldn't be more different. The Italian Market is the oldest outdoor market in the country, open 7 days a week, year-round, smack in the middle of Philly's historically Italian (and increasingly hipster) 'hoods, Bella Vista and East Passyunk.

On a normal day, Rittenhouse Square is a quiet residential area. It's been one of the more upscale areas in the city since the mid-19th century, when it was home to Philly's Victorian aristocracy.

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The housing market has been showing signs of strength. Economists expect home prices to rise 8% this year and then grow at a more modest pace beyond that.

Over the next five years, national home prices are projected to rise at an average 3.5% rate, according to the latest CoreLogic Case-Shiller report.

Of course, there will be laggards.

We drew on the latest data to identify the worst housing markets for the next five years — the markets with the lowest home price growth.

The 15 cities are ranked by the projected annualized change in home prices between Q4 2012 and Q4 2017.

Note: The median family income and home price is for Q4 2012. Unemployment data is as of February 2013, and population data for the metros is for 2011.

Waterloo-Cedar Falls, Iowa

Annualized expected growth from Q4 2012 - Q4 2017:
1.5%

The Waterloo-Cedar Falls metro area has a median family income of $66,100, above the national median of $64,200. It has a median home price of $121,000, below the national median of $180,000.

The metro has a population of 168,289 and an unemployment rate of 4.9%.

Data provided by CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indexes

Knoxville, Tennessee

Annualized expected growth from Q4 2012 - Q4 2017:
1.5%

Home prices in the Knoxville metro area have fallen 2.8% since they peaked in Q1 2008. It has a median home price of $146,000.

It has a population of 704,500, an unemployment rate of 6.4%, and a median family income of $61,000, below the national median of $64,200.

Data provided by CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indexes

Amarillo, Texas

Annualized expected growth from Q4 2012 - Q4 2017:
1.4%

The Amarillo metro area has a median family income of $63,200, and a median household price of $129,000. It has a population of 253,823, and an unemployment rate of 4.7%.

Data provided by CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indexes

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Enterprise technology is a $1 trillion market. It's also become a hot focus for startups and investors as new tech ranging from big data to software-defined networking upend the old-school stuff.

Before writing checks for projects that may cost their companies tens of thousands up to a million dollars, IT pros will naturally do their homework.

And they are increasingly doing that homework by crawling social networks to find out what others are saying about the product.

So LinkedIn conducted a survey to find out exactly what IT pros were doing with LinkedIn and other social networks.

The results show IT professionals have three times more connections on LinkedIn than the average user, and they are using them for everything from gabbing with their peers about tech, to getting product demos.

LinkedIn hired Forrester to do one study and Research Now to do another on how IT pros use LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Buying new tech for employees can be daunting: there's lots of options, complicated multi-year contracts and government regulations.

IT pros use their social network peeps to help narrow down the choices.

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Yext is a quiet giant in the business of local marketing. You don't go on its site to find a business. Instead, through its PowerListings service, Yext makes sure that when you search for a business on Yahoo, Yelp, Foursquare, or Patch, you get the right address, hours, and phone number. More than 100,000 businesses have signed up.

Business Insider was at Yext's office the day they announced a $27 million round of funding at a valuation of $270 million in June 2012. Then it made the news again in August with the sale of an advertising business, Felix, for $30 million. 

Since our last visit, Yext has moved into a pretty amazing new office at 1 Madison Avenue in Manhattan, New York. Its 175 employees fit into 40,000 square feet there.

The entrance is spacious and inviting. A moving ticker that shows every listing update as it is made.

Yext is all about location. This map describes its position in the startup universe. (While it's similar to a famous map of the social Web by XKCD, CEO Howard Lerman tells us it was inspired by old maps.)

The new office is humming.

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Tilda Swinton is the new face of Chanel's "Metiers d'Art Paris-Edimbourg collection," which (as the name suggests) has a Scottish theme.

Although the lanky, 52-year-old, Oscar-winning actress was born and raised in England, she has Scottish family.

Chanel has depicted her wearing rich, dark faux tartan patterns.

Swinton's father was a member of the Scots Guards and later Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire, according to The Telegraph.

Her paternal great-grandfather was a Scottish politician.

And her maternal great-great-grandfather was Scottish botanist John Hutton Balfour, The Telegraph said.

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A group of anonymous hackers sympathetic to the regime of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is causing havoc with the world's media.

They call themselves the Syrian Electronic Army, and they're devoted to attacking sites they deem defamatory to the Syrian government.

The group has attacked or sabotaged the web sites of Twitter accounts of the BBC, Syrian satellite broadcaster Orient TV, Dubai-based al-Arabia TV, National Public Radio, Human Rights Watch, The Onion and the Financial Times.

The group is a distinctly separate entity from Anonymous, but users protect their identities just as fiercely.

The SEA appears to be either backed by — or at least enjoy the support of — Assad, who is currently fighting a civil war for control of his country.

As such, they're a major threat.

They're media-hacking culture jammers.

The SEA isn't afraid to go hands-on. In fact, it's successfully hacked the Financial Times, the Telegraph, and has gained illegal access to a number of corporate Twitter accounts. It uses these resources to attack sites that paint Syria in an unflattering light (or sites that it thinks are connected to someone doing so).

About 122 web sites have been attacked by the SEA, according to the OpenNet Initiative.

Source.

Here's an example of a web page takeover from a hacker who has been linked to the SEA.

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Whoever thinks that brains and beauty don't mix clearly hasn't heard about these 30 executives in the tech industry.

They're intelligent, successful, and, well...

Some of the people on this list are worth millions, or even billions of dollars. Others are just getting started in tech but are poised for greatness. 

Yoshikazu Tanaka

Company: Gree

Title: Founder and CEO

Age: 35

Location: Japan

Fun facts: Tanaka founded social gaming company Gree in his apartment back in 2004. Growing up, Tanaka played Nintendo games incessantly, and his parents thought that he was wasting time, according to Forbes. Now, Tanaka is Asia's youngest self-made billionaire.

Debbie Landa

Company: Dealmaker Media and GrowLab

Title: Founder and CEO of Dealmaker, co-founder of GrowLab

Age: Unknown

Location: San Francisco, C.A.

Fun facts: Before entering the startup world, Landa spent ten years working in the fashion industry. Now, she's organizing conferences to help spur growth in the startup community and connect entrepreneurs with potential partners. 

Chuck Phillips

Company: Infor

Title: CEO

Age: Unknown

Location: 

Fun facts: Charles Phillips is the former president at Oracle. In the nearly eight years he worked at Oracle, the company tripled in size and acquired 70 companies. 

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Glassdoor just released its ranking of the top 10 tech companies with the best business outlook in the next six months, as rated by the firms' own staff.

Employees that work at these companies are optimistic because they are working on the latest and greatest in technology, they are inspired by their projects, and the companies are growing like crazy.

Glassdoor compiled a bunch of quotes from employees at these firms, explaining why they believe their companies are so optimistic. (Glassdoor allows current and former employees to share their experiences and rate companies they've worked at.)

The information is based on companies with at least 20 business outlook ratings and at least 20 company reviews during April 2013. Company ratings are based on a 5-point scale: 1.0=very dissatisfied, 3.0=OK, 5.0=very satisfied.

Huawei Technologies is the largest telecommunications equipment maker in the world.

Company Rank: 10

Company Rating: 3.1 out of 5

Business Outlook: 

• Percentage of employees that say the company is getting better: 55%
• Percentage of employees that say the company is getting worse: 14%
• Percentage of employees that say the company is staying the same: 32%

Employee Feedback: “Employees are very talented and smart.. Get to work on the cutting edge of technology.” – Huawei Technologies Senior Engineer (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)

Apple designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics like the iPhone and iPad.

Company Rank: 9

Company Rating: 3.8

Business Outlook: 

• Percentage of employees that say the company is getting better: 59%
• Percentage of employees that say the company is getting worse: 9%
• Percentage of employees that say the company is staying the same: 32%

Employee Feedback: “Have a direct impact on the products that people use everyday. Being able to work with some of the smartest engineers in the world.” – Apple Employee (Cupertino, CA)

HCL Technologies is an Indian company that provides IT services and consulting.

Company Rank: 8

Company Rating: 3.2

Business Outlook: 

• Percentage of employees that say the company is getting better: 60%
• Percentage of employees that say the company is getting worse: 25%
• Percentage of employees that say the company is staying the same: 15%

Employee Feedback: “Stability factor, transparency in policies, Friendly environment, good infrastructure, on time salaries.” – HCL Technologies Software Engineer (Noida, India)

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