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Google boosts Africa’s connectivity with new subsea cable hub, invests $9m

SEARCH giant, Google, has announced a new set of investments in Africa, reaffirming its nearly two-decade commitment to the continent’s digital transformation. The latest commitments focus on empowering Africa’s next generation through AI, unlocking opportunities, and expanding the innovation capacity of young Africans. Google, on Thursday, said these new commitments cover Internet connectivity, youth-led learning

Google Maps media controls for Spotify or YouTube are coming back

In the latest version of the Google Maps app, the media playback controls shown during navigation have disappeared. Not only that, but the settings...

Google Workspace is copying a very familiar YouTube feature to help you get through videos

Google Drive adds thumbnail previews when watching videosMuch like YouTube, it will let you spot exact moments in videosIt'll be available to all Google...

Google Photos Has Started Rolling Out One Of Its Most Promising AI Features

A few weeks after introducing its new AI-powered Remix feature for Google Photos, Google is starting to roll out the feature to users...

Google Search will show you more content from your Preferred Sources

Today Google is launching Preferred Sources in Search for everyone in the US and India. This basically lets you tell Google what your preferred sources for information are, and it will then show you more content from those sources in the Top stories part of Google Search. The rollout is expected to take a few

Google: In just a few days, Filipinos have become the #1 Nano Banana users in the world!

Homepage > News > Business > Google: In just a few days, Filipinos have become the #1 Nano Banana users in the world! Everyone’s going bananas with the latest image trend from Google’s Gemini! The company shared that the Philippines ranks #1 in the whole world in using the new Nano Banana image generation model

EU fines Google $3.5 billion for anti-competitive ad practices

The European Commission has fined Google €2.95 billion ($3.5 billion) for abusing its dominance in the digital advertising technology market and favoring its adtech services over those of its competitors. Google was also ordered by the EU's top antitrust regulator to stop anti-competitive and "self-preferencing" practices and take measures to mitigate future conflicts of interest

Google fuels media digitization; Da Nang drives digital tourism

Homepage > News > Business > Google fuels media digitization; Da Nang drives digital tourism Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and the Association of Independent Publishers (AIP) have launched the Digital News Transformation Fund (DNTF) 2025 to support the digitization efforts of community-based independent news publishers. Administered by Tshikululu Social Investments, the fund is worth R114 million