In its ongoing bid to combat fake news, Google follows Facebook in announcing new technology to help curb spread of misinformation. According to Guardian, Google is to start displaying fact-checking labels in its search results to highlight news and information that has been vetted and show whether it is considered to be true or false, […]
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Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc and Google have joined bidding for Toshiba’s NAND flash memory unit, vying with others for the Japanese firm’s prized semiconductor operation, the Yomiuri Shimbun daily reported on Saturday. Toshiba shareholders on Thursday agreed to split off its NAND flash memory business, paving the way for a sale to raise at least […]
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A broad coalition of advertising trade groups, ad buyers and sellers from Western Europe and the United States have urged the industry to stop using annoying online marketing formats that have fuelled the rapid rise of ad-blockers. The types of ads the coalition has identified as falling below standard include pop-up advertisements, auto-play video ads […]
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Global tech giant Google Inc. and other telecom company such MTN, Airtel and MainOne, are set to lay out strategies to deepen insurance penetration in Nigeria with the use of Information and Communications tools, at an E-Insurance Conference scheduled to hold on March 23, at Sheraton Hotels and Towers, Ikeja, Lagos. The conference with the theme […]
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Google parents company – Alphabet Inc’s self-driving car unit on Friday said it would seek a preliminary injunction against Uber in a high-profile intellectual property lawsuit, according to a court filing. Alphabet’s autonomous car unit, Waymo, sued Uber last month, alleging that a former employee downloaded and stole more than 14,000 confidential files, including details […]
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Google Inc. has increased the maximum size limit for attachments with incoming emails in Gmail. Until now, Gmail until now only supported attachments totaling 25MB in a single email. Any attachments more than that size were saved in Google Drive and then shared with recipients. But now, Google has doubled up the attachment size capacity […]
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Tech giant – Apple’s corporate reputation took a hit in the first quarter of 2017, according to a recent market research study that placed the Cupertino-headquartered tech giant at 20th place, far behind Google, placed fifth. In 2017, Apple slipped 10 spots from last year’s ranking, according to Reputation Institute’s Global RepTrak 100, a ranking […]
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Soon, Android users won’t be able to find Messenger, Google’s text messaging app on the Play Store. That’s because the search giant has now changed the name of the app. Spotted first by Android Police website, Google has renamed Messenger to something a bit more distinctive – Android Messages. So now, if you try to […]
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A phone locked with fingerprint wasn’t going to stop a 6-year-old from catching ’em all. Online purchases have been a pain in the wallet for parents, with the Federal Trade Commission hitting Apple, Google and Amazon with complaints accusing the companies of making it too easy for kids to make in-app purchases. Kids buying online without […]
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In its never-ending efforts to eradicate the web of malicious sites and digital destinations packed full of phishing and social engineering software, Google is to start labelling websites that persistently target people as “repeat offenders.” When a site fails to meet Google’s existing safe browsing policy, if you navigate towards it via the company’s Chrome […]
Read More Mr Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, the Google’s Communications and Public Affairs Manager, Anglophone West Africa, on Wednesday urged Nigerians to diversify on the usage of Google’s search engine. Kola-Ogunlade said in a statement that Google was not just a search engine, but could be a “Personal Person” to its users. “It is quite interesting to know that Google […]
Read More Google is getting ready to make a big change in the way it indexes web pages for search results. In a few months, the company will implement a previously announced plan to index mobile pages separately from desktop pages, a Google employee said at a conference Thursday, according to Search Engine Land. Google also plans […]
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