Alphabet Inc said on Tuesday users doing a Google search would now be able to filter results with a new “finance” tab, which works in the same way that its “images” or “news” tab does. The new search navigation tab gives users much of the same information that Google Finance does, including news on a […]
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Tech wasn’t always cool. Go back 20 years, and being a whiz at math or engineering wasn’t revered by mainstream America. But today, everyone wants to work at the hottest technology companies, and for good reason — they’re extremely dynamic. And they’re growing faster than businesses in any other sector of the economy. Recruiting site […]
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Facebook Inc, Twitter Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google head before U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday for two days of grueling hearings on how Russia allegedly used their services to try to sway the 2016 U.S. election. At stake for the Silicon Valley companies are their public images and the threat of tougher advertising regulations in the […]
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The Senate Intelligence Committee has asked top tech companies Google, Facebook and Twitter to testify about Russian interference in US politics, a Senate aide confirmed Wednesday. The three internet and online social media giants are expected to appear on November 1 in an open hearing on the rising evidence that they were covertly manipulated in […]
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Taiwan’s struggling smartphone maker HTC said Thursday it was selling part of its smartphone business to US technology giant Google for $1.1 billion. The deal includes intellectual property licensing and half of its research staff, or around 2,000 people, and is expected to be completed in early 2018 pending regulatory approval, HTC said. “For Google, […]
Read More With 91 million Internet users, Nigeria ranks first in Africa and eighth in the world in terms of Internet growth, Google says. The company’s Country Manager in Nigeria, Juliet Ehimuan-Chibuzor, stated this on Friday, a day after the ‘Google for Nigeria ‘ event in Lagos. She said, “With the massive Internet growth in Nigeria, the […]
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Google aims to train 10 million people in Africa in online skills over the next five years in an effort to make them more employable, its chief executive said on Thursday. The U.S. technology giant also hopes to train 100,000 software developers in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, a company spokeswoman said. Google’s pledge marked […]
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Authorities say three people were injured after a kitchen fire broke out during Google’s I/O developer conference at a California venue that normally hosts concerts. It happened Thursday at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View. Mountain View Fire Department spokesman Lynn Brown says three people were taken to a hospital and one had life-threatening injuries. […]
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Google’s artificial intelligence-based voice Assistant is on more than 100 million devices now, and the company is leveraging a longtime competitor to expand the technology to even more people. According to Bloomberg, developers’ announce at conference held on Wednesday, Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it’s launching the Assistant as an application for Apple Inc.’s iPhone. The […]
Read More Google said it shut down an email spam campaign that impersonated its online file service, Google Docs. According to online reports – in particular, a detailed user thread on Reddit – clicking on an emailed share link, purportedly from a known source, was taking users to a site that asked permission for a fake app […]
Read More Tech giant Google Inc. and Nigeria’s Ibadan School of Government and Public Policy (ISGPP) have flagged off a partnership over internet revolution in the world and Africa’s response to the development. The partnership takes off with an international conference on internet policy and governance in Africa, which will hold at the International Institute of Tropical […]
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The US Department of Labor accuses the tech giant of “systemic” compensation disparities. The company flat-out denies the allegation. Is Silicon Valley just one giant man cave? You might be forgiven for thinking so. The famed tech hub’s equal-opportunity credentials took another hit Friday when the US Department of Labor said search powerhouse Google systematically […]
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