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Monday 1 February 2016 19.24 EST Last modified on Thursday 25 May 2017 09.19 EDT. Google has become the worldâs most valuable listed company after announcing that its global revenues rose 13% to $75bn (Â£52bn) last year, and the groupâs tax rate fell to just 17%. The group took a record $1.9bn of revenues from its UK customers for the last three months of 2015, up 16% on 2014 â and all routed through its controversial tax structure in Ireland.
Following Facebook's better-than-expected results Wednesday, the No. 1 social media company is now worth $306.4 billion. That not only puts Facebook's market value ahead of General Electric at $299.6 billion - it makes Facebook the seventh most valuable company in the Standard & Poor's 500.