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Google’s Inbox app wants to revolutionise email on your phone

Ever since Gmail was released over 10 years ago as Google’s free email service, it’s become one of the world’s most popular applications. People…

Google Street View enables humans to hang out with their blood-related chimpanzees

There is not a place Google has not taken us human beings, be it for education or leisure. It appears that Google wants to…

Google wants patients to be able to hangout with their doctors online

Spend long enough looking up illnesses online and you’ll eventually come to the conclusion that, no matter how insignificant the symptoms, you’ll end up…

Yup, Google is now using camels to virtually map out the Arabian desert

We’ve all seen the cars with those massive Google stickers tapped to the door and a 360-degree camera on the roof, right? They’ve captured…

Internet for the masses: Google’s Project Loon finally takes off in SA

Google’s Project Loon has finally launched in South Africa. We’ve picked up wind about Google’s Project Loon a while ago — the very exciting…

Google brings ‘Connected Classroom’ to South Africa with Vilakazi Street tour

On 13 October 2014, children from schools across the world will visit Vilakazi Street. On the street, they will manoeuvre around many historical monuments,…

Umbono Alpha Beta: Beer, pizza and startups, the Google way

Umbono Alpha Beta is a Google event at which you can have as much free beer and pizza as you want, as long as…

Facebook ‘friends’ may not be welcome on Google+

Is Google+ a ghost town? A lot of people feel it is because their “friends” and family are not on Google+, they are on…

Sergey Brin & Google’s privacy dilemma

Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, wrote that his comments about internet freedom made to The Guardian Newspaper needed some clarification. He begins by re-stating his…

Engage: Google’s latest move to help small businesses help themselves

This week the Google Africa team came to Cape Town with their Google Engage for Agencies program. Google Engage is designed to empower eMarketing…

Meet the Facebook, Google and Zynga overlords [Infographic]

We are all slaves to Mark Zuckerberg. Ok, this infographic is a bit dramatic, especially the whole ‘Internet slaves, meet your masters’ part and…

Google has a cracker of a first quarter for 2012

Google announced an amazing first quarter for 2012, with growth of 24% over the same period last year. Total turnover for the quarter was…

Google angers developer with Google+ redesign

Every found yourself asking: “Why is Google trying to be so evil to the developer community?” You are not alone. Following the search giant’s…

Why Google’s Project Glass is actually a brilliant business strategy

Google’s augmented reality glasses are the key to a killer business strategy: how to provide Google to its users 24/7 — it’s instant search…

A glance into the future: Google Glass

Google’s mission to collect all of the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful has been placed under the veritable microscope with…

Privacy and competition: Interrogating Google

Google’s been on the chopping block a lot lately with suggestions that it promotes anti-competitive behavior by serving its own self-interest and robbing consumers…

Hello Google Glasses, bye bye Siri?

It’s official, Google’s Project Glass is here. This follows months of speculation about the project and what it would entail. In an official statement,…

Google makes more from Apple than Android? What a crock

UK newspaper The Guardian claims that Google’s Android operating system is far less valuable than Google’s revenues from Apple devices. The story was, of…

Growing up Google: 6 pivotal moments that changed Google for the worse

Leaving Google was a very tough thing to do: the technological innovation remains immense, the people are smart and the perks aren’t bad. “Goldman…

5 Things you should know about Google’s new terms and conditions

We all know that Google recently updated its terms, conditions and privacy policies. The company argued that the change would ensure that all Google…

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