Amazon, Microsoft are boosting Saudi offices amid state pressure
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Global technology giants including Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Microsoft Corp. are among firms working to ramp up their presence in Saudi Arabia amid pressure from the government, which has said it will stop giving contracts to companies without regional headquarters in the country.
The three US firms have all received licenses to establish regional HQs in Riyadh, a government database shows. Those approvals came just ahead of the…
