Tag: Google
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Google search engine will change job narratives in Nigeria – Presidential aide
Mr Afolabi Imoukhuede, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Jobs Creation and Youth Employment, says usage of Google, a search engine, will change job narratives in Nigeria. Imoukhuede made the assertion on Thursday at the unveiling of Google’s new Job Search Feature in Lagos. According to him, the job world is really…
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Google unveils new search engine experience for job seekers
Search engine giant, Google, on Thursday unveiled a new job search experience designed to help job seekers find employment opportunities. Unveiling the feature in Lagos, Google’s Country Director, Ms Juliet Ehimuan-Chiazor, said the new job search would help millions of Nigerians in searching for new opportunities. “We believe that the web allows anyone, anywhere, of…
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News content: Australia regulator to conduct inquiry into Facebook, Google
Australia’s consumer regulator has announced it will conduct a broad-ranging public inquiry into how digital platforms like Facebook and Google have impacted media organisations’ ability to fund and produce quality news and journalistic content. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said on Monday it would examine the impact of such platforms, which have “up-ended…
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Google’s app network quietly becoming huge growth engine
Google makes ads show up in more smartphone apps than any other technology company and that is the core of a resurgent business for parent Alphabet Inc. Google’s ad network unit has posted three straight quarters of year-over-year double-digit sales increases. The business is nearing 20 billion dollars in annual revenue, making it as important…
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India watchdog fines Google $21m for ‘search bias’
Google has been fined 1.36 billion rupees (21 million dollars) by India’s anti-trust watchdog for abusing its dominant position in online search services, officials and reports said Friday. In its 190-page ruling, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) found that users searching for flight details were directed to Google’s own flight search page. “Google was…
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Google pulls out 1.7 billion bad ads from sites
Google pulled out 1.7 billion bad ads from sites with machine learning technology in 2016, an official, Ms Jenn Kaiser, has said. Kaiser, the Head of Ads PR, Europe, Middle East and Africa for Google and YouTube, gave the figure on Monday in Johannesburg, South Africa. She spoke on “Good Advertising, Our Products and Policies’’…
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Google marks Stephen Keshi’s 56th birthday with Doodle
Google on Tuesday marked the 56th birthday of the late Nigerian football icon, Stephen Keshi, with Doodle. Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google’s homepages that commemorates holidays, events, achievements and people. Mr Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, Google’s Communications and Public Affairs Manager, Anglophone West Africa, made the asertion during a chat…
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Pichai announces Google’s AI research centre for France after meeting Macron
Following a meeting between French President Emmanuel Macron and Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichai on Monday, the tech giant has announced it will open a research centre in Paris devoted to artificial intelligence. “The different achievements in this country, including in science, art and the academic field, make it an ideal place for the creation…
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EU threatens online platforms with tougher rules on illegal content
The European Commission has called on social media platforms to crack down on hate speech, terrorist propaganda and other illegal content, warning that rules may be toughened if the industry fails to regulate itself. EU Security Commissioner Julian King said on Monday, after a meeting that included representatives of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. “Illegal terrorist…
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Powering Cloud beneath sea: Google floods ocean bed with subsea cables
In commitments to connecting the world and serving its Cloud customers, Google said it has spent over $30 billion on improving its infrastructural base from data centers to subsea cables, and it is not done yet. The Internet giant announced it will be commissioning three new submarine cables to add to its already existing ones…