{"id":752667,"date":"2013-05-22T11:52:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T15:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/?p=163019"},"modified":"2013-05-22T11:52:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T15:52:20","slug":"google-passes-ibm-to-become-second-most-valuable-brand-still-behind-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/752667","title":{"rendered":"Google passes IBM to become second most valuable brand, still behind Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/163019-google-passes-ibm-to-become-second-most-valuable-brand-still-behind-apple\/googleplex-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-163059\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-163059\" alt=\"Googleplex\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.talkandroid.com\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Googleplex-630x472.jpg?resize=630%2C472\" width=\"630\" height=\"472\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the 2013 BrandZ list of top global brands, Google ranks second, valued at $113.669 billion. Although the company is still short of Apple&#8217;s value of $185.536 billion, they still passed by IBM, who currently rank third at $112.536 billion.<\/p>\n<p>One notable name is Samsung, which is currently ranked at number 30, having jumped up a whole 25 places. This can clearly be pointed to their increased advertising on their Galaxy line and exploding sales figures.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s second-place ranking shows steady growth for the company, but their spot behind Apple says that they&#8217;re still the company to beat. Google looks to continue closing in on Apple in the current year.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a  href=\"http:\/\/redirectingat.com\/?id=3031X597718&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marketingweek.co.uk%2Ftrends%2Fthe-top-100-most-valuable-global-brands-2013%2F4006682.article&sref=rss\" >Marketing Week<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<strong>Come comment on this article: <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/163019-google-passes-ibm-to-become-second-most-valuable-brand-still-behind-apple\/\">Google passes IBM to become second most valuable brand, still behind Apple<\/a><\/strong>\n<br \/>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;\"><small>Visit <a  rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/\">TalkAndroid for Android news<\/a>, <a  rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/guides\/\">Android guides<\/a>, and much more!<\/small><\/div><\/p>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/AndroidNewsGoogleAndroidForums\/~4\/82z7POS-fhE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the 2013 BrandZ list of top global brands, Google ranks second, valued at $113.669 billion. Although the company is still short of Apple&#8217;s value of $185.536 billion, they still passed by IBM, who currently rank third at $112.536 billion. One notable name is Samsung, which is currently ranked at number 30, having jumped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-39NN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}