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Here are the three resources we've prepared for today:

• Apple, Microsoft and Amazon lead Interbrand's ranking of the 100 most valuable brands in the world

• Notion, the all-in-one productivity toolbox

• BookAuthority: the best books on any topic

Apple, Microsoft and Amazon lead Interbrand's ranking of the 100 most valuable brands in the world

Global brand consultancy Interbrand has recently published the 25th edition of its annual Best Global Brands ranking, which lists the 100 most valuable brands in the world.

Apple continues to hold the first place, although its brand has lost some value (-3%) for the first time in more than two decades, according to Interbrand's report. Its current value is $488.9 billion.

The second most valuable brand is Microsoft ($352.5 billion, +11%), while Amazon holds the third position ($298.1 billion, +8%).

The brands completing the top 10 positions in the ranking are, in this order, Google, Samsung, Toyota, Coca-Cola, Mercedes-Benz, McDonald's and BMW.

Interesting facts from the report:

• 14 of the 100 most valuable brands in 2024 belong to the automotive sector, with Tesla ranking number 12.

• Luxury brands have increased their global value. Ferrari, at position 62, is the fastest-growing brand this year, with a 21% increase in value. Louis Vuitton has moved from position 14 to 11.

• These brands have entered the top 100 ranking for the first time this year: Nvidia (position 36), Pandora (91), Range Rover (96), and Jordan (99).

Links:

• Interbrand Best Global Brands 2024

Notion, the all-in-one productivity toolbox

Notion is a great digital platform, versatile and customizable, that offers different organization and productivity tools allowing users to manage personal and work information and share it with others in multiple ways.

For example, in Notion we can do the following things:

• Take notes and organize ideas

• Organize information (with databases and wikis)

• Manage tasks and projects (with to-do lists, databases, and calendar)

• Write articles or books and manage content (individually or as a team)

• Track progress towards our goals

• Create websites (for example, for professional portfolios)

• Manage projects or collaborate as a team

One of Notion's great advantages is that it groups a wide variety of tools in one place, simplifying management for the user. The Notion team likes to define their product as "a set of building blocks that you can create things with."

Notion can be started free for personal use, with multiple options but some limitations, and then offers different paid rates depending on the needs of each user or work team.

A few days ago, Notion held its "Make with Notion" event where it presented the following new features:

• Notion Mail: Notion's proposal to modernize email

• Two new blocks: forms (for collecting information) and new flexible layouts that adapt to different uses

• Improved automations to save time and increase productivity

• Task aging

• New ways to share and sell templates in the Notion Marketplace

All the new features are summarized here:

• Everything we launched at Make with Notion

Links:

• Notion 

• Getting Started Guide for new users

BookAuthority: the best books on any topic

BookAuthority is a website that recommends the best books on all kinds of topics based on the opinions of experts across multiple fields.

This website constantly tracks book recommendations made by experts on the internet, reviews these books, and categorizes them by topic. It also takes into account user ratings from different websites, the popularity of titles, awards received, among other criteria.

According to BookAuthority's team, more than five million readers use this page each year to discover the best books.

Link:

• Book Authority

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