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The tech world has been rocked by allegations that tech giants such as Google and Facebook were supplying US intelligence agency, the NSA with personal information. Now the world can put a face, and a voice, to the man behind those revelations.Edward Snowden, a private security contractor with ...

Google announced today its first renewable energy investment in Africa. The search giant is making sure the lights (and your Android phone) stays on, by having invested a cool US$12-million (103-million Rand) in the Jasper Power Project, a 96 megawatt solar photovoltaic plant in the Northern Cape province of South ...

Inspired by the recent successful launch of the Television White Spaces pilot in South Africa, I am once again tempted to engage in providing mostly unsolicited advice about what Google’s strategy in Africa ought to be. What I want to propose today is the launching of a Netflix-like streaming ...

Google today announced as second wave of spring-cleaning that will see it consign a number of products to the graveyard including Reader, Google Voice for BlackBerry, and Google Cloud Connect.In an official blog post, Google senior vice president of technical infrastructure and Google Fellow Urs Hölzle notes that this ...

We know Google's big in mobile. If it wasn't Android probably wouldn't be the most widely distributed smartphone OS on the planet and the internet giant certainly wouldn't have doled out what it did for Motorola's mobile division.We also know that Google's making money from mobile. It wouldn't have ...

Searches for Oscar Pistorius, who stands accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in the early hours of 14 February, have outstripped those for Lance Armstrong and Tiger Woods at their peak over the past two years.However, interest in the case is still nowhere near that of the ...

This is interesting. Tucked away in Nick Bilton's New York Times article about Apple potentially building an iWatch is a revelation that Steve Jobs actually wanted to build an Apple car.According to Bilton:In a meeting in his office before he died, Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s co-founder and former chief ...

Like any fan of things that are totally awesome, I have been following the process of Google’s self-driving car pretty closely. Yesterday, I came across this article in Forbes about the potential future adoption of the car on a large scale, and in it author Chunka Mui makes a brilliant ...

It's remarkable how few journalists understand Google's business and how what it does or doesn't do affects massive volumes of commerce around the globe.If I were running the New York Times I would keep half-a-dozen journalists focused on Google 24/7 because it's that important.Instead, we get very little real coverage ...

SearchEngineLand has a very good, long look at the recent fake press release announcing Google's US$400-million acquisition of Wi-Fi company ICOA.PRWeb distributed the press release and said it slipped through its internal tests for "integrity."Danny Sullivan explains how PRWeb has become a popular distribution network for a lot of content, ...