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Alphabet, the company behind Google, has now overtaken Apple to become the second most valuable company in the world. At the time of writing, Alphabet has a market value of $3.892 trillion (~RM15.97 trillion), while Apple has a market value of USD3.863 trillion (~RM15.64 trillion). So, what should you know about it?

The world’s most popular web mapping platform, Google Maps, has announced that it will be displaying the ‘Gulf of Mexico’ as the ‘Gulf of America’ in the US following President Donald Trump’s Executive Order to rename the geographical area. Google Maps elaborated that the name change on the platform would take place after the US Geographic Names System has been officially updated.

YouTube has revealed that it will be introducing custom global emotes for comments and live chats on the platform. Called YouTube Emotes, the feature is similar to the one popularised by the Amazon-owned live streaming platform Twitch.