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December 21, 2024
African Businesses Can Now Harness Google AI to Simplify Search Advertising Following its initial announcement in January, businesses across Africa can now use Google’s Gemini AI-powered chat-like tool for Search Ads. Google in a release said that this intuitive tool is now fully operational and designed to help businesses[Read More…]
Google gives Bard a new name, Gemini Google has introduced Gemini Advanced as the new name for Bard. Bard has been the best way for people to directly experience our most capable models. “To reflect the advanced tech at its core, Bard will now simply be called Gemini.”[Read More…]
Google releases Nigeria’s 2023 Year in Search lists Google on Monday unveiled the findings of its 2023 Year in Search for Nigeria, showcasing the most popular searches, notable individuals, actors, musicians, topics, questions, and other subjects that captured Nigerians’ attention throughout the year. Google’s Year in Search is an annual[Read More…]
FG declares 4IR technologies application open The Federal Government on Monday declared open applications for the Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies (4IRTA) which is meant to optimise Nigeria’s economy. The Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani disclosed this in a statement on X with the[Read More…]
DPI, Verod Capital Partner to Back Management of Pan African Towers Pan African Towers (PAT), a leading digital infrastructure company based in Nigeria, has announced a strategic investment from Development Partners International (DPI), a premier investment firm focused on Africa, and Verod Capital (Verod), one of the continent’s leading[Read More…]
Google brings generative AI to Search in Africa Google has rolled out its Search Generative Experience (SGE) in Nigeria and other Sub-Saharan African countries as an opt-in experiment in Search Labs. In a recent statement, while announcing the features, google said, AI -powered experience is available in English. The company[Read More…]
50,000 Nigerians benefit from Huawei ICT talent seeds initiatives No fewer than 50,000 Nigerians have benefited from the Huawei Cultivates ICT talent seeds in Nigeria. The Chinese firm, which was founded in 1987, as a global provider of ICT infrastructure, also planned a 30,000 people project for next three[Read More…]
Google celebrates its 25th birthday with a special doodle Google Doodle celebrates its 25th birthday with a special doodle showing Google’s logo evolution over the years The doodle shows the letters ‘oo’ replaced by ’25’ in the word ‘Google’. Google was launched on 27 September 1998 by cofounders Sergey Brin[Read More…]
YouTube unveils New generative AI products for creators, artists YouTube, has unveiled a suite of AI-powered capabilities that will help both new and established creators and artists create, edit, and share content in bold new ways. These AI-powered tools will help unlock powerful new forms of creative expression,[Read More…]
Google Bard expansion introduces new more features, languages and countries Google on Thursday, July 13, announced the expansion of Bard, its conversational AI service, to 40 new languages including Swahili- the first African language to be included and 59 new countries and territories. The expansion includes new features that[Read More…]