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Google sets aside $800M in ads and loans to help in COVID-19 fight

Google CEO Sundar Pichai offered Friday that his company may well be donating more than $800 million in ad credit score and loans to help government orgs and small firms answer to the COVID-19 crisis. The announcement supplies a whole breakdown of the deployment, the vast majority of which is in credit score for Goo…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced Friday that his company would be donating more than $800 million in ad credits and loans to help government orgs and small businesses respond to the COVID-19 crisis. The announcement gives a full breakdown of the deployment, the bulk of which is in credits for Goo…

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