Demand for African developers is at an all-time high and international companies are recruiting African developers at record rates according to tech giant Google’s “Africa Developer Ecosystem Report 2021,” Google has launched the “Africa Developer Ecosystem Report 2021” demonstrating that, despite the challenges associated with the pandemic, the continent’s developer ecosystem is on the rise....
Google has announced it will invest US$1-billion over a period of five years to support digital transformation in Africa. During the first Google for Africa event hosted virtually this week, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet said the investment will include the landing of the subsea cable Equiano which the company believes will enable...
Google will introduce a series of programmes this month, to help boost the growth and recovery of small and medium enterprises (SME) in Africa’s post-COVID-19 economy. The impact of COVID-19 has resulted in many small African businesses either scaling down or closing shop, with hundreds of job losses. The Alphabet-owned company says it is introducing...
Vodacom has partnered with Google to give away hundreds of Android-powered smartphones to communities across Limpopo, South Africa. This move forms part of the companies continued efforts to “reduce the digital divide” and offer many who reside in deep rural communities “access to the internet for the first time”. “At Vodacom we are optimistic about...
Google has committed US$10 million to support tech start-ups and small business development in Kenya and assist in the East African country’s economic recovery. This follows an online meeting between Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta and Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai, where the growth of start-ups and small businesses was identified as a positive aspect of Kenya’s...
Google is facing a new wave of legal issues. The latest is a $5-billion lawsuit in the US over claims that the search engine giant collected user information when they surfed the Internet in Google Chrome’s ‘private’ Incognito Mode.
Kenya’s government has finally approved the roll out of the Google Loon project developed in conjunction with Telkom Kenya. The approval comes at a time where the country has encouraged its citizens to work from home amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The project had stalled, having had to wait for the go-ahead from the Kenya Civil...
The American company Google has decided not to continue its Google Station program, intended to provide wireless Internet connectivity in landlocked areas in South Africa. However, it had already been three months since the service was operational. Launched in Cape Town in November 2019, it already covered 125 areas in Langa, Khayelitsha, Gugulethu, Delft, Elsies River and...
