Apple, Google Top List of World’s Best Brands

New York Times: Madison Avenue may be the center of the advertising industry, but Silicon Valley is home to the most valuable brands. For the third consecutive year, Apple and Google top the annual Interbrand Best Global Brands report. The report, which is to be released on Monday, estimates the value of the Apple brand at $170.3 billion, up 43 percent from last year. The Google brand, at $120.3 billion, increased in value by 12 percent. (The value of Facebook’s brand, ranked No. 23, increased 54 percent to $22 billion, the highest percentage increase from last year’s report.)