Country Manager for Google Kenya, Olga Arara-Kimani, was reportedly fired last week, following investigations over allegations of data scraping and misrepresentation of Kenyan start-up, Mocality. Now, she claims the decision to leave Google was hers alone.What I think? She was asked to resign or get fired. She chose to resign.
Google’s social network, Plus has just over 75,000 users in Nigeria since its launch in June 2011, according to a recent report. But it seems that Google+ growth is very slow or stalled when compared to Facebook growth between June 2011 to December 2011. Facebook has added about 700,000 users, while Google+ only has an estimated 75,000 users in Nigeria since June 2011.
According to reports, Google has fired its Country Lead for Kenya, Olga Arara-Kimani, following investigations over allegations of data scraping and misrepresentation of Kenyan start-up, Mocality. Although, there’s no official Google statement yet, I think that an “appropriate action” from Google would mean firing those responsible or involved with the Mocality data scrap saga.
In the mid-morning hours of November 3, I woke up to the realisation that Google Adsense (Ads by Choice, if you like) were no longer displaying on my technology blog.
I quickly signed into my Google…
The word is out: Google is secretly working on a project that is capable of making it dominate Nigeria’s Internet ecosystem in years to come. That, I call Net-Colonialism! You may call it Colonialism 2.0, if…
Today, Google announced that Somali users can now have a gateway to the world’s information through their own country domain, www.google.so
According to Google, the new search domain for Somalia would make it…
Today, May 25 is Africa Day and Google has a new doodle to celebrate the historical annual commemoration of the 1963 founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU).
On May 25, 1963,…
Google has just launched AdSense for mobile content in 15 new countries, including Nigeria. It was initially launched to 13 countries in September 2007.
Before now, web publishers in Nigeria could only earn…
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Saheed Adepoju, Co-founder & CEO of Encipher Group where he shares insightful analysis into Google’s possible strategy towards merging the recently unveiled Chromebook with android-powered devices. He argues…
Google announced today that Nigerian app users will be able to purchase apps from the Android Market.
The idea is to increase consumer access and developer support for paid applications in 99 new countries – including 26 African countries…
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