Google To Spend $1 Billion On New York City Global Business Campus

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Google said the Hudson Square campus will be the main location for its New York-based global business organization."Were growing faster outside the Bay Area than within it, and this year opened new offices and data centers in locations like Detroit, Boulder, (Colo.), Los Angeles, Tennessee and Alabama," Ruth Porat, Alphabets chief financial officer, said in a blog.Amazon.com ( AMZN ) in November said it will divide up its second headquarters, called HQ2, between New York City and a location near Washington, D.C., in northern Virginia.After the Amazon announcement, reports surfaced that Google also planned to expand its presence in New York.The internet search giant in March also bought the Manhattan Chelsea Market for $2.4 billion.

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