In February, Al Bawaba Group received financial support from Google's News Initiative Innovation Challenge Fund (GNI), a regional and global initiative to “help journalism thrive in the digital age.” Drawn from a competitive pool of applicants from across the Middle East, the funding award reflects years of in-house development on DISCO , which is an innovative digital content marketplace and database platform, aimed at editors, producers, creatives, media monitoring organisations and information professionals, who need access to licensed content for re-use, research, or internal news gathering. DISCO, which fully launched ...