When Google's parent company,Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOG),released its third-quarter results in October, the company also announced a new, more aggressive share repurchase program.

As Alphabet and Facebook help spread Internet access and skills around the world, it's important to remember that such efforts are ultimately one part philanthropy, and another part savvy business.

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Alphabet's third-quarter announced repurchase program isn't its first. It follows a $5.1 billion repurchase program initiated in the third quarter of 2015. Interestingly, a review of how this program ...

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