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In recognition of the Alternative Youth Culture, popularly known as the Alté Movement, Google hosted a two-day Residency Programme in Nairobi for creators who identify as a part of the movement. The two day program was aimed at…

Google has on Wednesday, June 15 announced new initiatives to support small retail businesses in Africa as part of a month-long commemoration of International Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Businesses Day in June. The…

Google has suspended an engineer after he claimed that an artificial intelligence chatbot that the company developed had become “sentient”. Blake Lemoine, a software engineer at Alphabet’s Google, also claimed that the AI chatbot…

Within its one and half decade of existence, Google Street View had from going underwater to capture the Great Barrier Reef in 2012, being available in Virtual Reality in 2015, to exploring the ‘Top of the World’ in Canada in 2017.…

Google has announced that applications for the second cohort of the Google for Startup Black Founders Fund for Africa are now open. Following the success of the first cohort last year, Google will increase its commitment with an…

Google and cable landing partner, WIOCC has on Thursday, April 21 announced the landing in Lagos, Nigeria, of the state-of-the-art Equiano subsea cable, which will become a critical element in meeting Nigeria’s current and future…

Google has announced its first product development centre in Africa, to be located in Nairobi. The new product development centre will help to create transformative products and services for people in Africa and around the world and will…

A former Google worker has filed a lawsuit accusing the tech titan of discriminating against her and other Black employees. April Curley contended in the suit that she was undermined and ultimately fired for advocating reform of…

Google has on Tuesday, March 8 announced that its philanthropic arm, Google.org, is committing $1m in charitable funding to support programs helping women entrepreneurs to grow their businesses, as part of a series of new initiatives aimed…

Love is in the air as Cupid’s favourite day approaches. Now, as the world has begun to open up again following lockdowns and restrictions, this Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to celebrate the special people in our lives. As Will…

Google has on Wednesday, February 9 announced that 5000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurs in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa will be receiving free training to help their businesses thrive via the newly launched Hustle…

Google has announced expansion of its two-step verification (2SV) process for log-ins to enhance account security. The announcement comes after its newly introduced two step verification initiative saw a 50 percent drop in account…

The new year is only a few weeks old, but for many, the optimism for fresh opportunities and goal setting that informed their new year’s resolutions may be starting to disappear. If you’ve already gone off track , adopting technology can…

‘Detty December’ is over and students, teachers and parents alike are all trying to get through the mad rush of ‘Back to School’ and get back into the swing of things. Parents, who are just settling back to work after the restful…

Google.org has on Monday, November 8 announced the 34 funding recipients of Google.org Impact Challenge for Women and Girls. The $25m global philanthropy challenge was launched in March 2021 and called for gender equity focused…