Amid this apparent devastation, in fact, Spanish companies still managed to crack the top 100 in the recent Global Brands Index.

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At its recent introduction of the Rezound, the company crowed that it had been named the best-selling smartphone brand in the US in Q3 and that it was the leader in 4G smartphones. (The NPD Group, my employer, supports the second claim but not the first.) HTC also noted that it had cracked the Interbrand 100 list of best global brands after only five years of brand promotion.

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Since Daniels founded Social Media Week in 2008, it has become a major global conference reaching more than 100, 000 people in 26 cities around the world, aiming to connect people and brands around emerging trends in social and mobile media.

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