European Union hits Google parent company Alphabet with a record antitrust fine of $2.7 billion
EU regulators fined Google a record 2.4 billion euros ($2.7 billion) Tuesday, ruling that the search-engine giant violated antitrust rules for its online shopping practices. The fine is the largest doled out by Brussels for a monopoly abuse case and follows a seven-year-long investigation. “Google has abused its dominance as a search engine by giving […]
Angola Cables and Etix Everywhere combine their expertise to offer a Low Latency Route between the Americas and Africa
Angola Cables (www.AngolaCables.co.ao) today announced that it is has selected Etix Everywhere (www.EtixEverywhere.com) as its partner to build its critical infrastructure globally as part of an ambitious project to offer a lower latency route between the USA and Africa. The first element of the deal includes the construction of a landing station in Fortaleza (Brazil) […]
French police raid Google’s Paris headquarters as part of €1.6 billion tax fraud investigation
French police searched the Paris offices of U.S. internet giant Google today as part of a tax evasion and money laundering investigation, it has emerged. Authorities believe Google owes 1.6 billion euros (£1.2billion) in back taxes in France, a source close to the matter said in February. The investigation, which started in June last year, […]
SAP: Africa Code Week 2016 – S’attaquer à la fracture numérique sur le continent Africain
SAP s’engage à former cette année plus de 150 000 jeunes dans 30 pays africains pour favoriser l’alphabétisation numérique et ainsi offrir aux jeunes générations du continent des compétences numériques pour améliorer leur employabilité. Africa Code Week 2016 se déroulera du 15 au 23 octobre 2016, avec des milliers d’ateliers de programmation gratuits et des […]
Turning Down Billions: Grading 15 Tech Companies that Declined Big Takeover Offers
If you were to ask legendary investor Peter Thiel about the most important moment in Facebook history, he would point to an exchange in July 2006. Yahoo had made the lucrative offer of $1 billion for Facebook, and Peter Thiel as well as board member Jim Breyer got called into a meeting about the deal […]
How To Earn $100 Per Day With Google AdSense, And How Much Traffic You Need
Earning $100, $200 or even $300 per day with Google AdSense is not an impossible job.Many bloggers and website owners are doing it, and you are not an exception. The only thing you need is better planning and execution, hard work, determination and passion for blogging about your topic or niche. Before diving into the […]
People in the UK watch more porn than YouTube
Google chairman Eric Schmidt famously said in a 2013 presentation to advertisers that internet video sites like YouTube had already surpassed television. More recently, Netflix’s CEO Reed Hastings said traditional TV’s “amazing 50-year” was going to be over soon thanks to the rise of streaming services. The TV industry, meanwhile, has long fought back against […]
Google Tracks And Records A Ton Of Information About You. Here’s How To Delete All Of It
Ever get that feeling like you’re being watched? Living in our current age of technology is wonderful for convenience and communication, but it can come with that uneasy feeling of someone maybe just having a little too much information on you. Fortunately, there are a few things you can do to take your destiny into […]
Google to spend $150 million to make its workforce more diverse
A little over a year ago, Google hopped on the Silicon Valley bandwagon and published its diversity statistics. Like at many other tech companies, the numbers were grim, revealing a workforce mostly composed of white and Asian men. For example, women only filled 21% of its leadership roles, and less than 5% of leaders were […]
