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Google Maps gives 44 African countries walking directions

Google Maps is great. Even if you don’t have the app on your smartphone, you can look up your destination on your PC and…

Google turns +1 button into full-on recommendation service

Until now, Google’s +1 button has allowed you to share the fact that a page is to your liking and…that’s about it really. Things…

Online news portal IOL refutes hack claims

Well known South African news portal IOL has not been hacked, says its editor Alastair Otter. People visiting the site were today greeted with…

Google to pay $22.5m for Safari privacy bungle

Google is set to pay a US$22.5-million fine for overriding the privacy settings on Safari and tracking the browsing habits of its users. According…

Google axes more products, Microsoft employee pins them

“More wood behind fewer arrows”. That’s been the operating rationale of Google ever since Larry Page returned as CEO in 2011. Hardly surprising then…

Google’s been looking buy Yahoo’s ad tech for a while now

Google is looking to get its hands on Yahoo’s ad technology. In fact, it’s been looking for some time now, having made its first…

Google strategy for Africa: Access, relevance and sustainability

On a cold and rainy Cape Town Monday morning, Google launched gSouth Africa, its sixth African event of the past twelve months, inviting developers…

Google’s best and brightest arrive for G-South Africa

Some of Google’s top executives and brightest minds arrive in Cape Town this weekend for G-South Africa, a two day outreach program to reach…

Europeans want the right to be deleted

Europe’s justice chief Viviane Reding called on Thursday for new rules to give citizens more control of their online personal data, with the “right…

Google announces initiative to fund digital journalism innovation

Google, which has strained relations with publishers worldwide who accuse it of aggregating articles without compensation, says it is to donate $5-million (about R35-million)…

Google and China begin mending relationship

Google vice president John Liu on Tuesday reaffirmed the firm’s commitment to China, the world’s largest web community, after its harsh battle this year…

Google commits to making internet a part of everyday African life

Nick Heller is responsible for New Business Development across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Google. Based in Zurich, Switzerland, he focuses…

Google prints more money

Google reported that its quarterly profit soared on the back of its thriving Internet advertising service and that its display and mobile ad businesses…

Google test drives automated cars of the future

An electronic brain devised by US internet titan Google has driven cars nearly a quarter of a million kilometres in California, on a quest…

Going Android? Start with these eight apps

Everyone at my office got iPhones last year, but I didn’t really think the screen would last in my pocket next to my keys…

Google testing ‘Baraza’, an African Q&A site

There’s a new service coming out from Google, tentatively called “Baraza”, which is the term used for meeting place in Swahili. It’s a service…

The speed of Google or the stickiness of Facebook?

Google’s most important launch this year was its recent debut of Google Instant search which cuts user search time down by as much as…

Google appoints new manager for South Africa

Luke Mckend will join Google South Africa as Country Manager on 1 November 2010. Originally from South Africa, Luke has been with Google since…

Google to host G-South Africa for developers, entrepreneurs

Some of Google’s best engineers, product managers, and business leaders will be speaking about Google’s open web and mobile technologies in Cape Town on…

How SEO is breaking the web (and killing Google)

The web is in trouble. Big trouble. It’s not the first time. It was also in trouble in the mid ’90s. But then Google…

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