ASUSTek Added to Dow Jones Technology Titans Index

The Street Insider reports ASUSTek will replace Electronic Data Systems Corp on the Dow Jones Technology Titans 30 Index. ASUSTek joins three other Taiwanese companies in the index. The three others are Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC), High Tech Computer Corporation (HTC) and Hon Hai Precision (Hon Hai). There are now four Taiwanese companies listed on the index. Only the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ have more companies represented. A full list of companies on the index is below:

• Alcatel-Lucent (Paris)

• Apple (NASDAQ)

• Applied Materials (NASDAQ)

• ASUSTek (Taiwan)

• Canon (Tokyo)

• Cisco Systems (NASDAQ)

• Corning (New York)

• Dell (NASDAQ)

• EMC (New York)

• Fujitsu (Tokyo)

• Google (NASDAQ)

• Hewlett-Packard (New York)

• HTC (Taiwan)

• Hon Hai (Taiwan)

• Intel (NASDAQ)

• IBM (New York)

• LM Ericcson (Stockholm)

• Microsoft (NASDAQ)

• Motorola (New York)

• Nokia (Helsinki)

• Oracle (NASDAQ)

• Qualcomm (NASDAQ)

• RIM (Toronto)

• Ricoh (Tokyo)

• Samsung (Korea)

• SAP (XETRA)

• TSMC (Taiwan)

• Texas Instruments (New York)

• Xerox Corp. (New York)

• Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ)

The presence of four Taiwanese companies on this index is another indicator of their dominance of the global tech sector beyond the United States. Japan only has three companies represented and Korea one.

Street Insider: Component Change Made to Dow Jones Technology Titans 30 Index