🤯 Top 15 BEST global brands ranking for the last 19 years...

Watch big name tech companies take-over at the end!
Keep an eye on #Apple, #Google, and #Nokia...

Interbrand via Matt Navarra.
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📱 Top App Categories Worldwide for Q4 2018 by Downloads - Google Play

Games was also the top category worldwide on #Google Play in Q4 2018 with more than 7.25 billion installs, followed by Tools, Entertainment, Communication, and Social.

Games saw modest growth on #GooglePlay in Q4, with installs increasing 3 percent year-over-year. The Social category grew 53 percent year-over-year, surpassing Photography to take the No. 5 spot. This change was driven by enormous growth of social media apps in India, specifically #TikTok, along with two other ByteDance-owned apps, Helo and Vigo Video.
#Android
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​​💰 Google Hit With Another Antitrust Fine in Europe

The European Commission announced yet another #antitrust fine against #Google today, imposing a €1.49 billion ($1.69b) penalty for unfairly shielding its AdSense advertising platform from competition. "Today the Commission has fined Google €1.49 billion for illegal misuse of its dominant position in the market for the brokering of online search adverts. Google has cemented its dominance in online search adverts and shielded itself from competitive pressure by imposing anti-competitive contractual restrictions on third-party websites", commissioner Margrethe Vestager said in an official statement.

The European Commission’s latest ruling against Google is by no means the first time that the EU’s watchdog has taken action against an American tech company. In fact, Google itself got a taste of EU antitrust regulation as recently as last year. In July 2018, the European Commission hit Google with a record-breaking €4.3 billion fine for allegations related to #Android after having fined the company €2.4 billion ($2.7b) for anticompetitive behavior related to Google Shopping in July 2017.

As the following chart illustrates, other tech giants have felt the wrath of the European Commission as well. #Microsoft alone has been fined four times over the past two decades including three times for allegedly ignoring previous antitrust sanctions and for breaking promises made in an earlier antitrust settlement. The EU’s competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, has made U.S. tech companies a central focus, cracking down on anticompetitive behavior, tax avoidance and mishandling of user privacy.

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🤯 Tech Companies’ Market Capitalisation Over the Last 23 Years

Fascinating to see how quickly growing companies in tech have been able to join the top.
Keep an on on #Apple #Microsoft #Amazon #Google #Facebook and #Netflix...

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​​👨‍💻 Apple WWDC vs Google I/O 👩‍💻

#Apple kicked off its annual Wordwide Developers Conference #WWDC yesterday. Under the motto “Write code. Blow minds” thousands of developers come together in San Jose, CA, to learn about the latest features on Apple’s platforms in hundreds of workshops, keynotes and networking events.

Here you can see how popularity of Apple's WWDC is declining, although still a lot more popular than #Google's similar event called Google I/O

And the highlights of yesterday's WWDC:

👉 tvOS: multiple users, Xbox & PlayStation controllers

👉 watchOS 6 with new watchfaces, App Store & more

👉 macOS Catalina

👉 iOS 13 with dark mode, updated Apple apps & privacy features

👉 iMessage to support profile photos — including your new Memoji personalized with makeup and accessories

👉 HomePod will be able recognize who’s speaking to it with iOS 13

👉 iPadOS for iPad with new home screen widgets & multitasking improvements

👉 All-new redesigned Mac Pro

👉 New sign-in tool to compete with Facebook and Google

👉 Apple breaks up iTunes, creates separate Podcasts, TV, and Music apps for macOS

👉 Photos on iPhone is about to look completely different

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❓ What was your favourite announcement from yesterday's WWDC?

📱 Worldwide Mobile App Revenue

Global app revenue reached $39 billion in the first half of 2019, that means an increase of 15% compared to the same period of 2018.

Consumers spent an estimated $25.5 billion globally on #Apple’s #AppStore during the first half, an increase of 13.2% YoY from $22.6 billion in Q1 and Q2 of 2018. The amount generated by Apple’s platform was approximately 80% greater than #Google Play’s estimated gross revenue of $14.2 billion for the half. That was up 19.6% YoY from first half 2018’s total of $11.8 billion.

📖 Read more about Worldwide Mobile App Downloads.

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🔍 Google: The Most Popular Search on Bing

Poor #Bing. The beleaguered search engine with dreams of world domination never really had a chance against its all-conquering competitor, #Google. Adding insult to injury, analysis by SEO experts Ahrefs has revealed that in 2019, the search Bing is most often tasked with is pointing its disloyal users in the direction of 'google'.

As of July, the search engine dealt with 44.4 million such queries from around the world, far more than the second most frequent - 'youtube' was searched for 33.3 million times. In another blow for Bing's owner #Microsoft, the fifth most common search was people looking for help with Windows 10.

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📊 How Tech Companies Impact Society
The Verge Tech Survey 2020

Americans believe that #Google, #Amazon, #Apple, #Microsoft, #Netflix, and #YouTube have an overall positive effect on society. They’re more likely to think that #Twitter, #Slack, #Instagram, and #Facebook have an overall negative effect.

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Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — Day 5


👉 #Apple will host a virtual #WWDC this year — starts on 22 June (link)


👉 #Twitter tests a warning message that tells users to rethink offensive replies (link)
👉 #Twitter rolls out changes to threaded conversations following tests in its prototype app, #twttr (link)

👉 #Airbnb cuts 1,900 jobs, around 25% of its global workforce (link)


👉 #Bitcoin is set for ‘Halving’ this month (link)


👉 Leaked videos show #Lenovo’s first gaming #smartphone (link)

👉 #Android 11’s public beta to launch with 3 June via live stream (link)
👉 #Google’s #Stadia controller will finally work wirelessly with computers starting this week (link)


👉 #Microsoft launches #SurfaceBook 3 (link) and #SurfaceHeadphones 2 (link)
👉 #Microsoft offers $100,000 to hack its custom Linux OS (link)


👉 #Uber lays off 14% of its workforce in COVID-19-related cost-cutting (link)


👉 #Pinterest Q1: revenue of $272M, vs. $270M est., up 35% YoY; user base grew to 367M MAUs, up 26% YoY (link)


👉 #EA Q4: revenues of $1.39B, beating expectations of $1.19B, up 12% YoY (link)


#️⃣ #EarningsCalls

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Telegram's blockchain is dead, social networks are launching new features, and PS5 release is...
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — Day 11


👉 #Telegram shuts down its cryptocurrency operation — no more TON or Gram (link)


👉 #Twitter makes it easier to see quote retweets on #iOS (link)
👉 #Twitter says staff can continue working from home even after the pandemic passes (link)


👉 #PlayStation 5 still on track for holiday 2020 release (link)


👉 #Instagram adds bulk comment deletion & control for who can mention or tag you on iOS; also testing comment pinning (link)


👉 #Google tests iMessage-like emoji reactions for RCS Messages (link)


👉 #LinkedIn adds polls and live video-based events tools (link)


👉 Programmer hacked the #India's mandatory contact tracing app so that he always appear safe (link)



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​​🔝 World’s 10 Most Valuable Brands in 2020

For the eighth year running, #Apple is at the top of the list of most valuable brands in the world, keeping its lead over top companies like #Amazon, #Microsoft and #Google, according to Interbrand’s latest annual rankings. Although there has been some shifting around in positions, all of the brands in the top 10 last year remained there this year.

Of the 43% of brands that benefited from a lift in value this year, #Amazon (60%) and #Microsoft (53%) were the fastest risers. #Spotify also had a significant increase, up 52% to $8.4 billion (#70).

Other fast-risers this year include:
- #Netflix: +41% to $12.7 billion (#41);
- #Adobe: +41% to $18.2 billion (#27);
- #PayPal: +38% to $10.5 billion (#60);
- #Apple: +38% to $323 billion (#1); and
- #Salesforce: +34% to $10.8 billion (#58).

This year, five brands dropped off the top 100 list, making room for five new entrants. One of those new entrants is #Instagram, which makes its debut to the list at #19 with a brand value of $26.1 billion. #YouTube (#30) joins Instagram on the list of new entrants with a brand value of $17.3 billion. Both of these brands are also favorites among social media marketers.

The remaining three new entrants are:

- #Tesla (#40; $12.8 billion);
- #JohnnieWalker (#98; $4.6 billion); and
- #Zoom (#100; $4.5 billion)

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⌚️ Smartwatch Market 2Q21

The global #smartwatch market grew 27% YoY in Q2, per Counterpoint Research. Obviously, #Apple remains on top, but its market share did slip from 30.1% in Q2 2020 to 28% today.

Meanwhile, #Samsung saw its slice of the pie expand from 6.8% to 7.6%—an upward trend that could continue thanks to its newly unveiled #GalaxyWatch 4, made in partnership with #Google.

All Credits: Counterpoint Research
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