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East Africa’s premier technology, telecommunication, media, and broadcasting event will return to Nairobi on 25-26 April after a three-year digital hiatus. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the event will once again reunite the region’s tech leaders,

Back in Nairobi for 2023: Celebrating the 20th edition of East Africa Com

Software developers and technical industry professionals today converged in Nairobi under the Google Sandbox programme to explore career options and share best practices.

Google has today launched its flagship payments system Google Wallet in South Africa. South Africans who use Google Wallet will now be able to save and access payment cards, loyalty cards and boarding passes through the system, with support for additional items being added over time. “Access to technology is vital for economic prosperity as […]

Google, one of the leading tech companies, is countersuing the company which owns Tinder, Match Group, over a fees battle and Google Play Store policies. The owner of several dating sites initially sued Google in March, claiming that its Google Play Store is a monopoly. The Match Group wanted to be exempt from Google Play […]

It seems like the Google domain is back up after it suddenly shut down on Friday morning when South Africans started to see domain name service (DNS) errors on the main Google search page. All Google services that use the google.co.za including Google Maps were unavailable. Google.com, however, and other services that use that domain […]

Google Arts & Culture has partnered with Carakana, a Kenyan social enterprise and non-profit, to launch an online exhibition

Google has announced 1,000 scholarships in Kenya for small businesses in the country to open online shops. According to Techweez, the new development was announced as part of a month-long commemoration of International SMEs day this month. Google will be working with Coursera, an open online course provider, to develop an online certificate course in […]

"Going online means opening up the work of our women who are supported by Carakana to a worldwide audience." - Rachel Ruto

Tech megacorp Google has suspended an engineer after he published conversations with an AI chatbot on a project he was working on, in which he claimed that the AI chatbot had become sentient. Blake Lemoine said the AI system had developed consciousness and had feelings, just like a human child, according to The Guardian. “If […]