Google

Your Taxes: What to consider before any merger and acquisition deal

Mergers and acquisition deals tend to be 10% economic, 10% tax, 10% legal, and 70% psychological. The “smell of the money” affects people’s behavior in many deals.

 AS THE US and China battle it out over supply chains and global trade flows, Israel, also the subject of US tariffs, finds itself navigating particularly complex terrain. Here, a man looks at a screen showing Chinese stock market movements, as he uses his mobile phone in Beijing on Monday.
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Protecting journalists and public figures: WhatsApp launches new update

An antisemitism hashtag, illustrating online antisemitic hate speech.

Online antisemitism grows smarter, faster, and harder to stop, CyberWell report shows

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Google upgrades Chrome: Gemini will become a personal agent


Amazon, Google launch multicloud service for faster connectivity

The new joint network from AWS and Google Cloud comes just weeks after an AWS outage disrupted thousands of websites, a loss estimated to cost US firms up to $650 million.

A Google Cloud logo outside of the Google Cloud computing unit's headquarters at the Moffett Place office complex in Sunnyvale, California, US, June 19, 2019.

Israelis are about to get hooked: Google releases a new tool – it finds cheap flights for you

Google’s new Flight Deals brings smart flight search to Israel: Type like you speak – and it finds the cheapest deals based on your preferences

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Two weeks instead of five days: Google's breakthrough in weather forecasting

Google's new model promises more accurate forecasts for up to two weeks. It is eight times faster than the previous version and adds hour-by-hour predictions.

Storm in Israel, illustration.

Competition for Google: HERE begins 3D mapping across Israel

HERE Technologies has begun an extensive 3D mapping project in Israel, as part of a global initiative to create precise digital maps.

HERE begins 3D mapping across Israel

Meta does not hold social media monopoly, judge rules

The agency sought to force Meta to restructure or sell Instagram and WhatsApp in order to restore competition among social media networks.

 Facebook's new rebrand logo Meta is seen on smartpone in front of displayed logo of Facebook, Messenger, Intagram, Whatsapp and Oculus in this illustration picture taken October 28, 2021

Google launches Gemini 3, embeds AI model into search immediately

Gemini 3, arriving 11 months after the second generation of the model, appears on paper to keep Google at the forefront of the AI race.

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Cloudflare, Amazon, Meta: The biggest tech outages of recent years - explainer

This was the second major internet disruption of 2025, following the October malfunction of Amazon's cloud services unit, AWS.

A logo of CLOUDFLARE sits outside the company's house on the opening day of the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, January 20, 2025.

Greg Abel era begins? Berkshire’s $4.3B Google buy hints at post-Buffett strategy

The move makes alphabet the conglomerate’s tenth biggest position and signals an unusual tech pivot by Buffett ahead of his planned retirement.

A sign is pictured outside a Google office near the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California, US, May 8, 2019.

OpenAI may launch AI health assistant as it expands beyond ChatGPT core - Business Insider

Tech giants such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have long tried to give consumers control over their medical data, often with limited success.

In this photo illustration, a person holds a smartphone showing the Introducing GPT-5 interface in the ChatGPT app, with text describing the model's capabilities, in front of a blurred OpenAI logo on August 9, 2025 in Chongqing, China.

Google to flag battery-draining Android apps in Play Store from March 2026

Apps keeping phones awake over 2 hours in 24h will show a warning about high battery use and may drop in Play Store rankings.

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