Google applications including YouTube, email and Docs have suffered a rare service outage, with users unable to access many of the company’s services. The outage started shortly before noon UK time, lasting more than half an hour before being restored. Users around the world reported
France’s competition authority has fined Google 150 million euros ($167 million) for abusing its dominant position on the market for advertising linked to web searches, the regulator announced Friday. The authority, in its first-ever sanctioning of the American giant, also ordered Google to “clarify the
Facebook has filed lawsuits against two app developers accused of generating fraudulent revenue using the social media giant’s advertising platform. The company announced the legal action in a blog post-Tuesday. “The developers made apps available on the Google Play store to infect their users’ phones with malware,”
At the third Google for Nigeria event, Google announced new products and features to make it more helpful to more people in Nigeria and across Africa. The announcements include navigation instructions in a Nigerian voice for both motorcycle and car driving modes, new Street View
The Federal Government has obtained a court order to proscribe the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) – Shiites, PUNCH is reporting. The order was given by Justice Nkeonye Maha of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday. Maha made “a declaration that the activities of the respondent (Islamic Movement in Nigeria)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said today that, if elected president in 2020, her administration will break up the giants of the tech industry, including Amazon, Facebook, and Google. The proposal is the most stringent stance taken by a candidate in the presidential campaign so far. Warren,
Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, is currently in Lagos for a conference that held at the Landmark Event center. Sundar announced that Google will in the next five years train 10 million Nigerians. See more photos after the cut