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In response to accusations tweeted today by Donald Trump, Google has issued a statement saying that it doesn't tailor its search results based on political ideologies.... Read more via Engadget – https://ift.tt/2wmCJiW Get more World News

Africa’s nascent artificial intelligence sector just got its biggest boost from Google which is opening its first Africa AI research center in... Read more via Quartz Africa – https://ift.tt/2PcknJ5 Get more: Nigeria Business News

Web search engine, Google, has unveiled Google Station aimed at providing free high-quality, high-speed Wi-Fi hotspots to millions of Nigerians. The launching made Nigeria the fifth country... Read more via PM NEWS Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2vaWp7L Get more: Nigeria Business News

Google is set to open an AI research centre in Accra, Ghana later this year and will bring top machine learning researchers and engineers in the centre. According to the firm, “Today, we’re announcing a Google AI research center in Africa, which will open later this year in Accra, Ghana. We’ll...

Google, reputed to be the world’s largest digital advertising platform, on Tuesday announced plans to review its advertising policy as it affects certain financial services, including Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, from June this year. The New York Times reports that the new restriction...

Unilever says it does not want to support online platforms that do not take a stand against extremist content Unilever has threatened to withdraw ads from platforms like Google and Facebook if they do not do enough to police extremist and illegal content. … Read more via BBC News –...

Google has been fined more than $21 million in India for “search bias” and abuse of its dominant position, competition regulators said Thursday. The US internet giant was deemed to have favoured its own services when customers ran searches according to a report from the Competition Commission of...

In a strong speech with tough words that ricocheted from Davos to Silicon Valley, investor and famous liberal George Soros called Facebook and Google a “menace” to society whose “days are numbered” yesterday at the World Economic Forum. He compared them to oil and mining companies which...

Immigration, net neutrality, taxes and Russia dominated tech’s agenda in the nation’s capital last year, per new reports. Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google cumulatively racked up a roughly $50 million tab fighting off President Donald Trump and an onslaught of new federal regulations last year...

LOIC VENANCE / AFP Facebook’s Instagram and the Google+ social network have agreed to join an EU-sponsored group of US internet giants to combat online extremism, EU officials said Friday. EU officials added that the existing members — YouTube, Microsoft, Twitter and Facebook – have made...

Google headquarters in Mountain View, California Stephen Shankland/CNET Want people with phones to find your website? Better make sure it loads fast, because otherwise Google will punish you in its search results. Google long has given fast-loading web pages preferential placement in search...

Google has announced its new “Google IT Support Professional Certificate” program through Coursera, offering anyone the chance to get certified for an entry-level job in the field. The course doesn’t require any previous experience and takes between 8 and 12 months to complete, according to...

Google announced today that it’s going to massively expand its global cloud infrastructure with three new subsea cables and five new regions. The regions, all coming online this year, will be available in the Netherlands, Montreal, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, and Finland. Meanwhile, the cables will...

Mzamo Masito, newly appointed Google Chief Marketing Officer for Sub-Saharan Africa. Google announced on Monday, 15 January 2018 that it has appointed Mzamo Masito as its Chief Marketing Officer for Sub-Saharan Africa. Masito joins Google from Vodacom, where he held a senior position, he has an...

A UBS analyst pinpoints exactly why Alphabet's Google will be the best growth tech stock in 2018. Google had an impressive 2017 and its momentum could push it even higher in 2018, a UBS analyst notes. The company’s plays in mobile computing, AI and … via pulse.ng – Nigeria’s...

Over the past year, Google has demonstrated its desire to step up its hardware game. The company bought HTC’s Pixel team for $1.1 billion, designed its own imaging chip for the Pixel 2 and also hired a key Apple chip designer. Bloomberg reports that in its bid to gain an edge … via...

CEO Patrick Doyle will leave behind quite the legacy when he departs in June. When Patrick Doyle took over as CEO of Domino’s Pizza in 2010, the massive pizza chain was basically in shambles. Eight years later, Doyle is stepping down after presiding over one of the most … via Recode – All...

The search giant profited by up to £200 (about $270 USD) every time an addict clicked on an advertised link for supposedly “free” addiction helplines in the U.K., reports the Times. But these “free” helpline websites are most often just fronts for referral services who suggest patients then go...

What I know about successful people is this: They love to devour books to expand their minds. Bill Gates has stated that he reads about 50 books a year. Mark Zuckerberg? About 24 books a year. But the undisputed king of reading remains Warren Buffett, who spends 80 percent of his day reading...

Google Incorporated CEO, Sundar Pichai, has said his firm would prepare 10 million Africans for ‘jobs of the future’ in the next five years. He said this in a company conference held in Lagos, Thursday. The pledge is in continuation of an initiative Google launched in 2016 to train young...