Apple usurps Google as world’s most valuable brand

LONDON, (Reuters) – Apple has overtaken Google as the  world’s most valuable brand, ending a four-year reign by the  Internet search leader, according to a new study by global  brands agency Millward Brown.

The iPhone and iPad maker’s brand is now worth $153 billion,  almost half Apple’s market capitalisation, says the annual  BrandZ study of the world’s top 100 brands.

Apple’s portfolio of coveted consumer goods propelled it  past Microsoft to become the world’s most valuable technology  company last year.  Peter Walshe, global brands director of Millward Brown, says