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January 14, 2012 05:14 am GMT
When you think about what Google, the 32,000-employee search engine conglomerate, is strategically focused on these days, here's one thing that doesn't come to mind: an initiative to get more Kenyan businesses online via manually grabbing data from a local startup that's trying to do something complementary.I've been looking into the well-researched story that Mocality, a Kenya-based business listing service, published this morning. There are certainly serious issues it brings up, as Google has admitted. But there's nothing anywhere near the same magnitude as, say, the press fallout and antitrust probe around the new Google+ search integration, or the Motorola acquisition, the Android patent licensing issues, or the many other efforts and problems it has happening every day.
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Putting The Google-Is-Ripping-Off-A-Kenyan-Startup Story In Perspective
When you think about what Google, the 32,000-employee search engine conglomerate, is strategically focused on these days, here's one thing that doesn't come to mind: an initiative to get more Kenyan businesses online via manually grabbing data from a local startup that's trying to do something complementary.I've been looking into the well-researched story that Mocality, a Kenya-based business listing service, published this morning. There are certainly serious issues it brings up, as Google has admitted. But there's nothing anywhere near the same magnitude as, say, the press fallout and antitrust probe around the new Google+ search integration, or the Motorola acquisition, the Android patent licensing issues, or the many other efforts and problems it has happening every day.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/M9RewIDE0C8/
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