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Google has overtaken Apple as the world’s most valuable brand, according to a new survey.

As per Millward Brown’s BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands, Apple’s brand value fell by 20% in the past year to just under $148 billion, while Google’s value increased by 40% to $159 billion.

“Google has been extremely innovative this year with Google Glass, investments in artificial intelligence and a range of partnerships,” says Benoit Tranzer, regional managing director of Millward Brown Europe. “All these activities send a very strong signal to consumers about the essence of Google.”

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For today’s Secret Feature, we’re focussing our attention towards a very useful fitness tool bundled into the latest build of 4.4 KitKat. Believe it or not, Android includes native support for step recognition and step counters, which means that other fitness/health applications if downloaded will be notified when users are engaging in physical activity.

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If you’ve ever wanted to run iOS apps on an Android device, six PhD students at Columbia University may be able to help.

They’ve created a piece of software called Cider which allows Android-powered devices to run both domestic and foreign binaries – meaning both Android and iOS applications – on a single handset or tablet.

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We all lose our keys; usually it happens right before you’re about to head out to an important meeting or a lunch date with your new partner. But with iKeyFinder for Android, finding them again is as easy as pushing a button.

The free app combines with a keychain that plays a loud beeping noise that’ll help you locate your keys from around 50 yards away when you can’t see them. It works with all Android devices, and thanks to Cult of Android deals, it’s just $24.99 for a limited time. That’s 37% off!

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Flayvr first arrived on the Google Play Store back in January, 2013, and has been regarded as one of the most elegant, futuristic, fluid, user-friendly, streamlined and feature-packed photo gallery replacement apps ever since. So, consequently, this week we have decided to bring it its very own review here on Cult of Android.

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