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Google clocked annual revenue of more than $200 Bn in 2021 – Top Tech News

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Google clocked annual revenue of more than $200 Bn in 2021

While unveiling the quarterly results on Tuesday, Google’s parent company Alphabet reported that it clocked a over all revenue of $257 Bn in 2021. Google’s standalone revenue for 2021 Q4 stood at nearly 75.3 Bn, almost 32% jump from 2020 Q4. This is for the first time that Google’s revenue has surged above $200 Bn mark. As always has been the case, online advertising dominated Google’s revenue, with Google search engine ads clawing in $43 Bn revenue. Google’s new age cloud computing business churned out pretty good numbers (Read more)

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Meta set to acquire Greece based audio software startup Accusonus

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is reportedly close to acquiring a Greek audio software startup Accusonus. The financial details of the deal is still not known as both companies have refused to comment on rumors surrounding the deal. Many believe that this acquisition is yet another small step by Meta in creating the much hyped up world of Metaverse. Accusonus provides audio and video editing software for creators (Read more)

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Mozilla FireFox Launches new privacy features

Mozilla FireFox announced on Tuesday that it is all set to roll out new privacy updates for its mobile and desktop VPN users. With this new privacy update, FireFox is bringing Multi Account Containers ( one of its popular add-ons) to the desktop platform and also rolling out multi-hop feature to the android and IOS version of the VPN service. To compete with Google’s Chrome, FireFox over the years has been rolling out many privacy features (Read more)

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Telegram rolls out new feature updates for Android & IOS

Telegram, Whatsapp’s primary rival, has rolled out slew of feature updates for both Android and IOS operating systems. The feature updates include new video stickers, improved navigation between chats, more refined message reaction and more (Read more)

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India to roll out its own digital currency

Nirmala Sitharaman

India’s Central Bank, RBI, will issue a digital currency in the next financial year, 2022-23. This digital currency will be based on blockchain and other technologies. The news about India’s maiden digital currency was announced by the country’s finance minister while unveiling the annual budget. However, the finance Minister refused to shed any further light and the information about digital currency remains hazy (Read more)

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