The Federal Government has called for the extension of Google Station’s free WiFi services to markets in Nigeria. The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, disclosed this in Lagos on Friday while declaring open the 32nd Lagos International Trade Fair. He…
Google staff walk out over women’s treatment (BBC)
Staff at Google offices around the world are staging an unprecedented series of walkouts in protest at the company’s treatment of women. The employees are demanding several key changes in how sexual misconduct allegations are dealt with at the firm,…
Why only truly indigenous e-commerce companies are champions – Dr. Ajit Singh
By midday on Tuesday September 4th 2018, a remarkable development, whose reverberations are still felt today, shook the e-commerce world and the whole of Wall Street. Amazon, an American e-commerce giant, had followed Apple Inc. to become the second U.S.…
Google’s Street View cars are making streets viewable to more than just humans (Medium)
In 2001, a Stanford professor and a couple of his prodigies drove over to meet Larry Page and Sergey Brin for a secret coffee meeting. The co-founders of Google had an idea: what if you could teleport onto any road…
Google’s AI is now better than doctors at spotting breast cancer (BGR)
Cancer researchers are constantly advancing the technology that doctors use to screen for, detect, and treat all kinds of cancers, and the survivability prospects have greatly improved over the past few decades. Now, AI is giving scientists another tool in…
Is Google getting rid of Android? (BGR)
Google hardly had any surprises left for its Pixel 3 event earlier this week, especially when it comes to the stars of the show, the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL. Both phones were thoroughly reviewed before Google took the…
Google+ to shut down after security bug (CNN)
For Google, a data privacy reckoning may finally come as a result of a service that it admits almost no one uses much anymore. Google said Monday it is shutting down the long ailing social network Google+ for consumer use…
Facebook, Google, others to tackle spread of fake news (PremiumTimes)
Facebook, Google and other tech firms have agreed on a code of conduct to do more to tackle the spread of fake news, due to concerns it can influence elections, the European Commission said on Wednesday. “Intended to stave off…
MTN, Google train over 40 SMEs on Digital Marketing in Port Harcourt
In its bid to continually empower Small and Medium scale entrepreneurs with practical skills to implement effective digital marketing strategies, over 40 SMEs recently benefited from the digital marketing training provided by MTN Nigeria in collaboration with Google. The group…
Na wa o! Google says it is removing over ‘100 bad ads every second’ (Ndtv.com)
Google is removing over 100 scam advertisements every second for violating its policies and will soon implement a verification programme to further weed out bad actors from its platform. After The Wall Street Journal reported that scammers were purchasing search…