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Google Maps. (AFP)

India Launches New Digital Maps Service to Replace Google

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 27, 2017 | Technology

London – The Indian government urged people against using the digitila maps service provided by Google. “Google Maps” can be used to determine the locations of a restaurant or a coffee shop, but not for looking for important addresses, explained the government....

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File photo: The logo of Google Inc. is seen outside their headquarters building in Mountain View, California August 18, 2004. (REUTERS/Clay McLachlan)

Google Earth Re-Invented for New Era

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 18, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

Google on Tuesday launched a re-imagined version of its free Earth mapping service, weaving in storytelling and artificial intelligence and freeing it from apps. “This is our gift to the world,” Google Earth director Rebecca Moore said while giving AFP an...

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Muslim pilgrims circle counterclockwise Islam’s holiest shrine, the Kaaba, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia’s holy Muslim city of Mecca late on September 26, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH)

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Directs to Benefit from Grand Mosques’ Expansion

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 9, 2016 | Saudi Arabia

Makkah-Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has issued his directives to take advantage of the available places and sites at the expansion’s building and the north, west and south open yards as well as the parts of east open yards...