•Google and Alphabet boss, Sundar Pichai The CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet could earn up to $692 million over the next three years under a new compensation plan published yesterday by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The deal would make Sundar Pichai, who has been chief executive of Google since 2015 […]
If you’ve ever scrolled through Instagram and taken a screenshot of a ‘killer’ outfit on a fashion influencer, you know the struggle. You spend the next forty minutes hunting through hashtags, tags and various websites, trying to find that specific shade of adire or those exact architectural heels. Well, the hunt just became a whole […]...
•Google logo Google parent Alphabet yesterday reported blockbuster earnings, its revenue climbing as it invests massively in cloud computing services enhanced with artificial intelligence. The tech giant said revenue jumped 18 percent year-on-year in the quarter, and overall annual revenue topped $400 billion for the first time at the company ...
Google filed a notice yesterday to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that it held an illegal monopoly on online search, court records show. A US district judge decided in 2024 that the internet giant had a monopoly on search and text advertising through exclusive distribution agreements that made it the “default” option people were likely [&hell...
•Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan Senator Natasha Akpoti has emerged as the most searched Nigerian in Google’s 2025 Year in Search report. She topped a list driven by major political events, cultural moments and national conversations. According to Google, the Kogi Central lawmaker drew “unprecedented public interest” as Nigerians turned to Sea...
Google will pay more than $40 million to support South African news media, many of them floundering in a digital age, the country’s competition authority said today. Tech giants, including TikTok, X, and Facebook, have come under fire for anti-trust practices that the watchdog says hurt local media by limiting their ability to distribute and [...
Google faces a fresh federal court test today as US government lawyers ask a judge to order the breakup of the search engine giant’s ad technology business. The lawsuit is Google’s second such test this year after the California-based tech juggernaut saw a similar government demand to split up its empire shot down by a […]
Google has become the latest company to fall victim to cyber criminals increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to bypass security measures and trick users with highly-realistic documents that install malware on networks. This Google attack, following a similar incident targeting Microsoft SharePoint servers globally, was confirmed earl...
Google has issued an urgent warning to its 1.8 billion Gmail users, warning that anyone with hacked account has just seven days to recover it or risk being locked out permanently. To regain access, users must have a recovery phone number or email set up. These backups allow Google to verify your identity through security […]
•Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum Mexico will take Google to court if it insists on changing the Gulf of Mexico’s name to “Gulf of America” for Maps users in the United States, President Claudia Sheinbaum said today. She said her government had written again to the US company arguing that President Donald Trump’s executive order on [&helli...

