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Interbrand 100: Apple, Google dominate global brands and Samsung is rising quickly
So, that whole internet palava is working out just fine for Apple and Google. Both companies now sit atop the Interbrand 100 – the list of the most valuable brands in the world. In fact the tech sector dominates with six of the ten largest brands in the world. Coca Cola

Infographic: In just 15 short years Google has conquered the world. And it’s only getting started
Everything it touches it owns. It is rapacious. Google is DNA and it is only fifteen years old. The company already hoovers up fully one third of the world’s online advertising and will reach $US40 billion in advertising revenues this year. In the fast-growing mobile ad market it is even

Scale at speed: Google is running the world’s biggest startup
Four years ago there were no Chrome users in the world. Today there are 750 million. There are over 900 million Android phones in the world today. Five years ago there were none. That’s what awesome looks like. How does that play out in the real economy? Here is one

140 million full time jobs created or destroyed by knowledge work automation in the coming age of the machine: PART IV of our McKinsey study review
A looming wave of knowledge work automation will generate or displace the equivalent of 140 million full times jobs by 2025 as it crashes and breaks upon the managerial class with same impact already felt by workers in the manufacturing and transactional sectors over the last half a century. Machines