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Google introduces Work & Education partner programme

The year is winding down and so is everyone, except for Google. This week alone Google has launched Game Kids and Google for kids….

Google plans to revamp its products for kids

Beginning next year, though the exact time has not been specified, Google plans to create specific versions of its most popular products for Googlers…

EU Lawmakers pass a motion to break up Google

On Thursday, European Union lawmakers unanimously backed a motion urging anti-trust regulators to break up Google. When the motion was hinted at a few…

Tumblr beats Instagram as fastest growing social platform, Facebook lags behind

Research published today by Global Web Index shows that blogging site Tumblr’s active user base grew in the last six months by 120% and…

Google updates its product search for Black Friday craze

In just a few days (November 28) Americans will flock to their Walmarts and Best Buys with the hope of getting the latest deals…

One of Google X’s Project Loon balloons crashes in the Karoo

A Karoo farmer has stumbled upon a Planet Loon balloon that crashed on his farm. Beeld reported yesterday that Urbanus Botha, a farmer in…

Google will give $2 for every $1 you donate in fight against Ebola

Google has just announced a “public giving” initiative that hopes to raise US$7.5-million in donations in order to support the many international non-profits currently…

iPad app announcement at iPhone 5 launch event

The iPhone launch event looks as if it will be unveiling more than an array of new devices, it will also hopefully release details…

Google celebrates its 13th birthday with a simple doodle

The teen years are troubling for any software company but if that business happens to be Google, puberty will result in a level of…

How to get the most out of YouTube advertising

Advertisers and marketers are always looking for new and innovative ways to market their brands. While traditional advertising is beginning to take a back…

Silicon Valley startups can’t rebuild US workforce

There has been a lot of discussion lately about US jobs and Silicon Valley’s role in helping to rebuild the US workforce. US government…

Google aggressively pushing revenues amid Senate scrutiny

Google has adopted an aggressive program of stuffing its search pages with paid listings as the financial quarter draws to a close — a…

Is your business ‘all in’ for the cloud?

Steve Ballmer’s quote — “for the cloud, we’re all in“; spoken in March last year, is rapidly becoming IT folklore. For most industry watchers…

Google Wallet goes live

Ever imagined a future without the inconvenience of having to carry around cash, or credit cards, or any wallet at all? Google has brought…

Google facing antitrust war of attrition as US Senate hearing looms

Adding further credence to notions that Google is the new Microsoft, Google CEO Eric Schmidt will face a US Senate hearing which looks to…

Google predicts Indian web explosion

With smartphones becoming cheaper and telecom carriers investing in high-speed wireless infrastructure, Google expects that by the number of people using the internet in…

Google buys another 2^10 IBM patents

Google has added 1 023 more IBM patents to its technology arsenal to fend off legal attacks by rivals such as Apple and Microsoft….

Baidu planning world domination

Robin Li, chief of China’s largest search engine Baidu hopes to have expanded his company across the world in less than five years. He…

Intel looks for Google leg up in smartphone chips

Intel, left badly behind in the market mobile phone processors by comptitors like ARM, is looking for a fast catch-up by teaming with Google…

Three reasons I love Android

Open source. Free information. The power to customise what I want, when I want. These are not simply words used to describe one of…

‘The blog is dead, long live the blog’ — Chris Anderson on the future of media

We may need new words for journalists, editors and the “news”, because their definitions are constraining and changing. Maybe the editors of the future…

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