Alphabet is now the world’s most valuable company

It’s been six years since Google has managed to surpass Apple as the most valuable company in the world. Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is now worth around US$570 billion, compared to Apple’s $538 billion value. Apple has held the top spot since 2013 after overtaking Exxon Mobile. But thanks to strong earnings report, Alphabet takes the top spot. Google has brought in a total of $74.5 billion in revenue and a total income of $23 billion for 2015.

Apple had its biggest quarter this Q1 of 2016 as the company has made $18.48 billion in profit, which is the most a company has made in a single quarter. But that isn’t enough to satisfy its investors apparently as iPhone sales are expected to drop for the first time in the second quarter of the year.

Source: Cult of Android

Refinery29 launches news app on iOS

If you want to be an informed and well-rounded individual, Refinery29 just released a new app to help you stay in the know. Called This AM, the app will share eight new stories each day from various interests and topics to keep its young female market in the loop. There will be single-sentence roundups of the hottest stories that you can swipe upward to see. It’s like a more condensed Yahoo News Digest app. It’s available for free download on the Apple App Store.

Source: Refinery29 | Download: Apple App Store (Free)

New leak shows off the curved glass back of the Samsung Galaxy S7

Samsung is set to unveil its new flagship devices at the Mobile World Congress on February 21. Leaks of the device have been floating around for a while. The latest one shows off the curved glass back of the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge. It shows how the similar the new Galaxy devices will look when compared with its predecessor. But the frame does seem more rounded this time. It also sports a new heart rate monitor and what’s speculated to be a larger camera sensor. We just have a few more weeks to wait until the new Galaxy devices get released.

Source: Evan Blass (Twitter) | Via: Cult of Android

Samsung introduces adblocking into its mobile web browser on Android

Samsung is hoping to help out users who don’t want to see any ads on their Galaxy devices with a new over-the-air update. The company updated its web browser on Android for 5.0 users to include the new adblocking capability. If you’re using Chrome, you won’t be able to take advantage of this as it just works on Samsung’s own mobile browser. Developers can build adblocking extensions for Samsung’s browser. The first extension available is Adblock Fast is the first to take advantage of the API and it supposedly raises speeds of loading a page by up to 51 percent on average with ads blocked.

If you’re not a Samsung user but want access to the browser and its adblocking capabilities, Samsung has made it available for Android users running version 5.0 and up. Android 4.0 users should be getting the feature in the coming months.

Source: The Next Web | Download: Adblock Fast (Free) + Samsung Internet (Free)