With more than one and a half billion accounts, Facebook is the most popular social network in the world, having influence on at least billion people worldwide. The brand has changed and is continuing to shape the way people communicate. Facebook has become a new communication tool for the world. It is very likely that the company and its founder Mark Zuckerberg will go on having a great impact on people.

Cisco Systems, a technology company producing networking equipment, is a pacesetter in the IT industry in the Middle East. Over the past four years, the company contributed to the sector's rise by 60% in the region. The brand intends to continue providing the network infrastructure in the Middle East as it helps to cope with the terrorism in the region and government takeovers.

MasterCard is trying to change the world teaming up with the South African Social Security Agency by distributing benefits electronically among more than 10 million recipients in South Africa. Following the start of the campaign, the number of fraud crimes in the country has significantly reduced. Moreover, the South African government saved about $250 million thanks to the MasterCard payment system.

Renewable energy companies are inherently aimed at improving the quality of life and environmental cleanliness. Thus, Enel, Italy's utility company, was first to advocate clean energy market. It pledged to achieve carbon neutrality before 2050. Currently, Enel gets slightly less than half of its energy from renewables.

Toyota is the first car maker that rolled out an eco-friendly car. Its hybrid model Prius is rather popular among drivers. Competitors of the Japanese brand picked up the idea and other hybrid vehicles as well as fully electric cars were made. In 2015, Toyota announced the release of Toyota Mirai, a new hydrogen fuel cell vehicle.

Novo Nordisk changes lives of a considerable part of the world's population. The Danish drug manufacturer has been helping Chinese people suffering from diabetes since 1990s. There are about 100 million people living with diabetes in China. The brand educates Chinese citizens and trains doctors on how to treat diabetes and produces insulin in China.

Kickstarter, a king of crowdfunding, is also on the list of world changers. Crowdfunding is a way of raising finance by asking a large number of people each for a small amount of money using the internet. Kickstarter is the world's largest funding platform for creative projects. With the help of this brand, projects of millions of people came to life.

Starbucks is a coffeehouse brand famous for growing its own coffee in the country where it has its coffee shops. There are about 20,000 Starbucks shops all over the world. By investing in coffee farms, the company provides jobs in various parts of the planet.

The famous retailer Wal-Mart is known for providing consumers with goods at extremely low prices.

It also made its Purex PowerShot laundry detergent, intended to use less water than other forms of detergent.

GSK is the company that worked for thirty years to develop a vaccine for malaria, the disease that infects over 200 million people globally every year. In 2015, it created the vaccine preventing cases of malaria among children.

Vodafone and Safaricom created the service called M-Pesa which changes the reality of people in poor countries. It helped anyone without a bank account to pay for purchases using this mobile money platform. The app is extremely popular in emerging nations. Thus, 42% of the entire Kenya's GDP is transacted through the service.

Google is number one on a list of companies changing the planet. Undoubtedly, the company is doing much for the world. Two decades ago Google transformed the view of the world of technology.