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20 Feb
FOLLOWING its initial announcement in January, businesses across Africa can now use Google's Gemini AI-powered chat-like tool for Search Ads.    This intuitive tool is now fully operational and designed to help businesses in Africa and across the world boost their online visibility.     Google, which disclosed this yesterday, said in regions like Sub-Saharan Africa, where Internet…
14 Feb
Google has announced new updates to its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered language model, Bard, now Gemini Pro, which will ensure that more creativity is unleashed.
6 Feb
Impact Amplifier, with the financial support of Google.org, has launched its African Online Safety Platform (AOSP). The Africa Online Safety Platform is an Africa-wide project and part of Impact Amplifier’s broader intention to address African Online Safety at a systemic level. The African internet safety ecosystem is hindered by several issues, key among them is…
2 Feb
Google has expanded Bard Chatbot with Gemini Pro to Nigeria among other countries and geos.
24 Jan
Search giant, Google has started building a new data centre in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire.
17 Jan
confirmed it is eliminating "a few hundred" positions from its global ad team, amid a push to use artificial intelligence for efficiency and creativity.
17 Jan
For digital advertising industry, planning for 2024 is unlike any other year. It is going to be, in a word, dynamic.
11 Jan
Google suffered a legal blow at the European Court of Justice on Thursday when the body's adviser recommended that a 2.4-billion-euro ($2.6-billion) fine levied on it for anti-competitive practices be upheld.
20 Dec
Google is pushing new frontiers in the deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
19 Dec
Google parent Alphabet has agreed to pay $700 million as part of an antitrust settlement made public on Monday, with the funds going to US customers of its Android app store and state governments. As part of the settlement, the company will make changes to its Google Play app store to reduce competition barriers for…
10 Nov
Google has issued a three-week warning to the users of G-mail accounts about a clean-up exercise that could see their e-mails, documents, photos and videos permanently deleted.
10 Nov
Google has rolled its Search Generative Experience (SGE) in Nigeria and other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa region as an opt-in experiment in Search Labs. This AI-powered experience is available in English.

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