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Last year, Google announced plans to open a new AI lab in Africa. Now, Google AI Accra is open for business, and the team there is working on building AI-powered solutions to real-world problems, including helping communities in Africa…

The third Launchpad Accelerator Africa class was announced today by Google as part of its ongoing efforts to support entrepreneurship on the continent. This third class, which starts on 1 April 2019, involves 12 startups from six…

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…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has told a US congressional panel the reason why search for idiot brings up Trump in Google Images. “How would that happen? How does search work so that that would occur?” Democratic Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren…

Osun elections, Alexis Sanchez, Black Panther searches top the 2018 trending list What people, places, and things were trending around the globe this year? What was the top trending news moment of the last 12 months? Which new music…

Lagos November 28, 2018: Google tonight announced the winners of the first Google Impact Challenge in Nigeria at an event held in Lagos. Twelve non-profits and social enterprises were each awarded a share of $2m in grant funding.…

Google today celebrated Christy Uduak Essien-Igbokwe, with a doodle on her 58th posthumous birthday. A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google’s homepages that commemorates holidays, events,…

This month marks a major milestone for the world’s most popular search engine, as Google turns 20. Founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, with the aim of organising the world’s information to make it universally accessible…

Google today hosted its second Google for Nigeria event where it made a number of big announcements aimed at helping more people in Nigeria, and across Africa, benefit from the opportunities the web has to offer. In a bid to…

Google has announced a new job Search experience that aims to help job seekers find employment opportunities. For the first time, when someone uses their phone or computer to search on Google for a job, they will see a streamlined…

On what would have been his 56th birthday if he were to be alive, former Nigerian Super Eagles captain and coach Stephen Okechukwu Keshi has been honoured by tech Giant Google with a doodle. Doodles are changes made to the Google…

Google has surpassed Apple as the most valuable company in the world. Alphabet, the holding company formed by Google last fall, handily beat analysts’ expectations in its quarterly earnings report Monday. The results sent the company’s…