Tag: Google
Microsoft Now Neck and Neck with Apple as the Most Valuable Companies
Microsoft is now neck and neck with Apple. When Big Tech conversations come up, Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook always take centre stage while underestimating...
Google Unveils First Google Impact Challenge Kenya Finalists
Google has announced the finalists of the Google Impact Challenge that they announced some time back in May. The aim was to identify and fund the...
Pretend to Be Working with These Chrome Extensions
People have always found ways to pretend they are working when evidently they are not. Most people will head over to the internet to...
Nigerian ISP Blamed for “Accidental” Internet Traffic Hijack on Google Services
In layman terms, Internet hijacking can simply be explained as the rerouting of internet traffic through a path that it was not intended to...
Facebook’s Earnings Call Reveals Stunted User Growth, Shifts Focus to Stories
According to Facebook’s earnings call this past week, the social network reported less revenue and even fewer new users. Its audience actually shrunk in...
IBM to Acquire Red Hat, Tim Cook Calls out Tech Giants and Google to Offer Users More Privacy Controls
IBM is set to acquire Red Hat for $34 Billion in its big leap into hybrid cloud.
Facebook’s Portal is a Privacy Breach in Waiting, Microsoft Declares Love for Linux, We Learn That Google+ Isn’t Really...
Facebook Portal is the social media giant’s entry into the hardware realm. Facebook launched both Portal and Portal+, their new voice-controlled, video-calling device that...
Google Announces the Pixel 3, New Notch, Dual Selfie Cameras, Same Design
It is October and it has become a tradition of sorts for Google to announce their latest Pixel branded phone and now we have...
Google Shuts Down Google+ Following Privacy Breach
Google today has announced that they are shutting down Google+, its social network that was launched over 7 years ago as a competitor to the...
Amazon, Apple Deny Hacking Claims, Instagram Gets a New Boss and Facebook is Already Sticking Its Dirty Fingers Into...
Early last week, Bloomberg Businessweek wrote a bombshell report on how Chinese spies had used tiny rogue chips embedded in Super Micro servers that...
Apple Has Some Not-So-New iPhones, Google Discontinues the Email App No One Used and EU Wants to Kill the...
On Wednesday last week, Apple introduced new iPhones - there was no huge announcements as this is the S year from Apple products -...
Twitter Pulls the Plug on Alex Jones as Instagram Turns into an E-Commerce Platform
Conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones and Infowars get permanently banned from Twitter
Alex Jones got axed from Twitter after confronting Oliver Darcy, a CNN journalist who had...
Donald Trump Charges At Google For “Rigging” Search Results Against Him
With a two-part tweet, Google has gone from one of "America's greatest companies" as President Trump called it back in July while defending them...
Two Kenyan Startups Qualify for Google LaunchPad Accelerator Class 2
When it is not in the ad business, Google likes to diversify its trade by supporting entrepreneurship across different parts of the world. This...
Safaricom Neon Kicka 4 Comes with Android Oreo Go Edition, Kes.3500 Price tag and a Payment Plan
In an effort to pull more Kenyans from the feature phone space, Safaricom, through a campaign dubbed "Maisha ni Digital" aims to reach at...
Like Telegram, You Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails with Gmail
A couple of weeks ago, Google introduced key design changes in Gmail, and some of the features introduced on the web version have trickled...
Google Tracks You Even If Your Location Settings Are Off, But There is A Fix
The modern world’s businesses realized the value of data and information long before other players grasped the importance of those commodities. Data, obviously, can...
Apple Dongles On the $1 Trillion Train, Facebook’s Dating App Begins Testing and Google Ventures into China
Two decades ago, Apple Inc. was close to bankruptcy - Now, it's worth nearly 7 Jeff Bezoses.
Apple just reached the $1 trillion market cap...
Kenyans Obsessed with Croatian President, Tennis and Pony Videos?
July was a very eventful month across the world. We had the world cup that had its own surprises, the recent lunar eclipse and...
Loon’s Commercial Proposition Takes Base Stations to the Sky
Project Loon, a formerly Google experimental project that delivers internet connectivity to off-coverage areas through the use of a balloon system has announced its first...
Google’s $5bn EU Fine, Android Fuchsia, Editable Tweets and Can Facebook Fix Itself?
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So what did Google do, why are they being fined and are they really guilty?
Google is a giant tech company and the European Commission...
Telkom Kenya to Finally Use Google Balloons to Increase 4G Coverage
In August 2017, we covered Alphabet’s ‘Wi-Fi for the World’ Project dubbed Loon. At that time, 10 balloons were deployed in Nakuru, Nyeri, Nanyuki,...
Facebook Reverses Ban on Some Crypto-Ads, Updates Stories as It Reaches 400m Daily Users
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Facebook relaxed its ban on some cryptocurrency adverts. The company will now allow some preapproved advertisers to promote crypto businesses and services, like...
Google Seeking Telco Partners for Full Project Loon Roll-Out in Kenya
X, a research and development company mothered by Google and prides itself of pioneering internet balloons famously known as Project Loon is seeking partnership...
Intel CEO Resigns, IGTV Launches, Facebook’s AI Fight Against Fake News
Instagram debuts their Youtube competitor, IGTV
The long form video platform will allow anyone to upload videos either from the dedicated IGTV app or through...
AT&T-Time Warner Merger now Legal, Net Neutrality Is Dead and Bow to Blockchain Religion
AT&T now allowed to merge with Time Warner, US Court rules.
Last week on Monday, US court judge ruled that AT&T can complete its $85B...
Google Podcasts is a Great Alternative to Pocket Casts
I like Google Podcasts already, but Pocket Casts is still my number one choice
Microsoft Buys Github, Apple Trolls Facebook, Dramatic Departure of WhatsApp Founders from Facebook
In this week's Clicked, we cover Github's acquisition by Microsoft, Apple's WWDC and the shade they gave Facebook and the expensive split from Facebook...
Google Removed Egg From Salad Emoji and Twitter Wants a Fight
Emojis are a huge part of our texting culture and they have shaped how we express various feelings and emotions to other people around...
Google to Offer KES 200 Million in Grants for the Kenya-based Impact Challenge Winners
While organizations such as HiiL are scouting for local talent that can create exciting and possibly, scalable solutions for justice innovation, search engine and...
