Google on Saturday highlighted the top search on Trends as NIN-SIM linkage, Rita Dominic and Gospel Singer Osinachi Nwachukwu among others. NAN reports that Mr Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, Head Communications, Google West Africa said in a statement that in April, the federal government directed the telecommunications industry to bar outgoing calls from unlinked SIMs, hence the […]
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Google’s $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit will face scrutiny by the Department of Justice (DOJ) amid data privacy fears, The Post has learned. The controversial merger in recent days was cleared for review by the DOJ after federal law enforcement tussled with the Federal Trade Commission, which had also sought authority to investigate the deal, […]
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Africa’s global bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has collaborated with Google and ISP partner to launch Google Station in 11 key UBA branches in Lagos State as part of plans to roll out 200 stations in the country. Google Station, a platform for providing free, high-speed Wi-Fi hotspots in public places, began in […]
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Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the internet in 1989 is about to launch another invention: an open source web platform that will allow users bypass tech giants such as Google and Facebook. He has just launched Inrupt, a start-up which is building the open source platform called “Solid”. The platform, in his […]
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The Country Director, Google Nigeria, Juliet Ehimuan-Chiazor says the social and economic tool known as Google Search has attained 20 years. Ms Ehimuan-Chiazor in a statement in Lagos said that apart from Google Search being a way of finding information, it had proven invaluable in helping people find jobs, start businesses, and even save money. […]
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Google’s search engine of promoting negative news articles and hiding “fair media” coverage of him, vowing to address the situation without providing evidence or giving details of action he might take. Trump’s attack against the Alphabet Inc unit follows a string of grievances against technology companies, including social […]
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Google, a unit of Alphabet, the world’s leading technology company, has been slammed a record $2.7 billion fine by Europe’s anti-trust agency. The fine signalled a tough stance by the agency in the first of three investigations into the company’s dominance in searches and smartphones. It is the biggest fine the EU has ever imposed […]
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Google says it is supporting a digital journalism initiative to train 6,000 African journalists within the next nine months. Daniel Sieberg, the head, training and development, Google News Lab, made this known in a statement issued on Thursday in Lagos. Sieberg said that the training would be done in collaboration with the World Bank and […]
Continue ReadingGoogle on Tuesday unveiled new Android notification channels, moving some of its security-related prompts to Smartphone, leaving traditional channels like email and Short Message Service (SMS). This is contained in a statement from the organisation which was obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. The statement said that henceforth, Android users should […]
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BY AYO OLOWO Designed for both iOS andAndroid, the Google Translate app is adding 20 new languages. You’ll be able to translate to and from English with Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian. For Hindi and Thai, you’ll be able to do […]
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