Facebook's ex-security chief says tech companies need to get better at...
Federal prosecutors have charged 2 former Twitter employees suspected of spying for the Saudi Arabian government, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday.The complaint alleges the former...
View ArticleUber founder Travis Kalanick has reportedly raised $400 million for his next...
Uber's ousted founder, Travis Kalanick, quietly raised $400 million from Saudi Arabia for his food-delivery startup in January, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.It's the first known...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia allegedly recruited Twitter employees to spy on users. That's...
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia reportedly uses hacks, social media surveillance, and spies to keep tabs on dissidents, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch.An alleged instance of this global...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia is reportedly trying to get the Kingdom's billionaires to buy...
Saudi Arabia is trying to get the country's wealthiest citizens to buy stock in Aramco's upcoming IPO, according to Bloomberg. The group reportedly includes the likes of the billionaire Olayan family,...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia deleted a video decrying feminism as an 'extremist' ideology...
Saudi Arabia has deleted a video in which it branded feminism as an "extremist idea."The General Department for Counter Extremism made the claim on Friday, despite the country taking recent steps to...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia is 'running out of money' and needs the Aramco IPO cash, ex-CIA...
David Petraeus, former CIA chief, says that Saudi Arabia is running out of money and needs Aramco's IPO to fuel its investments in the coming years. Petraeus said that the Kingdom's budget deficit...
View ArticleOne of Jamal Khashoggi’s close friends said Twitter is the 'only free...
Omar Abdulaziz, a Saudi activist in exile in Canada, said that Twitter is an important tool for many Saudi dissidents but comes with risks.Abdulaziz was friends with murdered journalist Jamal...
View ArticleState-owned oil giant Saudi Aramco is worth up to $1.7 trillion in a new IPO...
State-owned oil giant Saudi Aramco on Sunday released a range for its initial public offering that places its valuation up to $1.7 trillion ahead of its public debut that's expected to be the largest...
View ArticleA Saudi Arabian princess and rights activist who 'fell off the radar' in late...
A Saudi princess and activist has been detained and placed under house arrest on suspicion of trying to flee to Europe, German broadcaster Deutsche Welle reported.Sources close to Princess Basmah told...
View ArticleWall Street banks will reportedly miss out on a massive payday after Saudi...
Investment banks that worked on Saudi Aramco's record initial public offering could miss out on a huge payday now that the IPO is being kept local, Bloomberg reported.While advisers and arrangers will...
View ArticleTrump may love selling US-made weapons to the Middle East, but he's not the...
President Donald Trump has touted the arms deals he's cut with countries in the Middle East.But he's hardly the first president to shop US military wares in the region, and a half-century of such sales...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia just broke its own 2-year blockade of Qatar by flying its soccer...
Saudi Arabia just broke its two-year blockade of Qatar by letting its soccer team directly cross the border to play in a tournament.Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain cut ties with Qatar in June 2017,...
View ArticleTrump may send dozens of ships and 14,000 more troops to confront Iran only 2...
US officials may send more military assets to the Middle East, including Navy ships and up to 14,000 troops, in order to push back against Iran, according to The Wall Street Journal.The thousands of US...
View ArticleThe $100 million Andy Ruiz vs. Anthony Joshua fight is 'masking a darker...
The heavyweight boxing fight between Andy Ruiz Jr. and Anthony Joshua on Saturday is Saudi Arabia's attempt at "sportswashing," Amnesty International told Business Insider.The human-rights organization...
View ArticleSaudi Aramco's IPO will reportedly value the oil giant at $1.7 trillion,...
Saudi Aramco is expected to be valued at $1.7 trillion in its initial public offering, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.The company expects to raise $25.6 billion from the IPO, according to...
View ArticleIran is doubling down on the missile strategy that took out 5% of the world's...
Iran is doubling down on the success of last summer's cruise missile attack on two Saudi oil facilities by positioning advanced weapons around the Middle East from Yemen to Lebanon, a NATO source told...
View ArticleSuspect in deadly shooting at Florida naval base hosted a dinner party to...
The suspect in the deadly shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida, a Saudi military service member in the US for training, held a dinner party before the attack to watch mass shooting...
View ArticleA Saudi man at the Pensacola Navy base reportedly recorded the deadly...
A Saudi national at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida recorded the shooting from in front of the building where it took place, according to The New York Times.A person briefed on the...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia's government invested more than $2 billion in Aramco's...
Saudi Arabia's government institutions spent nearly $2.3 billion on Saudi Aramco's record-breaking initial public offering, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.That reliance on local funding sources contrasts...
View ArticleThe Saudi gunman who killed 3 US Navy sailors at a Florida base got his hands...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Sunday that the Saudi national who killed three US sailors at Naval Air Station Pensacola on Friday was able to purchase a firearm through a "loophole" in federal gun...
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