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Google Combats ISIS through Limiting Related Search Results

by Mohammed Ali Saleh and Khaldoun Ghassan Saeed | Jul 29, 2017 | Technology

Washington, Jeddah – The spokesman for the global coalition to defeat ISIS announced that May witnessed a drop of 92 percent in Twitter links that take users to pro-ISIS websites. He told al-Hurra television on Friday that the coalition had set up a hashtag on Twitter...

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Google logo at the company’s Asia-Pacific headquarters during its opening day in Singapore on November 10, 2016. (Getty Images)

Alphabet Profits Slide after Historic EU Fine

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 25, 2017 | Business

Alphabet, the parent company of popular search engine Google, saw its slide take a hit on Monday in wake of the historic fine imposed on it by the European Commission. Alphabet reported a quarterly profit of $3.5 billion, in a sharp decline from a year ago, with a...

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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 to Power Dutch Data Center with Solar Energy, Facebook to Build Housing in Silicon Valley

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 8, 2017 | Technology

Google will purchase all the electricity generated by the largest solar park in the Netherlands over the next decade to power a recently opened data center housing thousands of servers, the US internet company and energy provider Eneco said on Friday. It is part of...

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Internet User Information Trade Yields $151 bn in 2017

by Mutlaq Muneer | Jul 6, 2017 | Technology

London- Selling data, or the so-called “Big Data,” has been discussed a lot recently, and it means the amounts of very large personal and professional information that can be analyzed to detect patterns, trends, groups, and situations relating to human...

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Customers at a Whole Foods Market in Midtown Manhattan. Credit John Taggart for The New York Times

Whole Foods Deal Shows Amazon’s Prodigious Tolerance for Risk

by DAVID STREITFELD | Jun 29, 2017 | Business

New York- Joke all you want about drone-delivered kale and arugula. Amazon’s $13.4 billion bet to take on the $800 billion grocery business in the United States by acquiring Whole Foods fits perfectly into the retailer’s business model. Unlike almost any other chief...