Google today announced the arrival of Street View in Sharjah and Ajman, a feature by Google Maps that will allow users to view and navigate 360 degree street-level imagery of major streets across the two Emirates. The first Street View Special Collect in the UAE was launched in 2013 for Burj Khalifa...

It's finally happening. You can see the content for both the apps offline by end of the year. These changes are set to be brought in at some point this year, which is great news. It’ll be good for train or car journeys, where your connection may dip in-and-out. You’ll have to save a journey on...

Google always spends a lot of time on their April Fools pranks and this year is no different. This year Google Maps is letting users play Pacman on the roads. You can play either on the web – just load up Google Maps and click on the Pacman tile on the bottom left, or on your phone. On iOS, the app...

Last month Google and Twitter signed up a deal that allowed your tweets to appear in Google search. Twitter agreed to give access to its firehose, the stream of data generated by the microblogging service’s 284 million users. However, did you know that Google will not index each and every tweet....

2014, as in every year previous, brought events that evoked every emotion, from a wealth of joy to a bucket load of misery. To make sense of the issues, the highlights and lowlights of the year, the world frantically Googled away in a search for more information. Popular Google searches worldwide in...

We have tried using various tools like Ad Blocker and trying to turn off the ads from settings while surfing online. Google has now come up with an option for web users to opt out of ads on selected websites by paying the search giant as little as $1 per month. The experimental new service, called...

Middle East entrepreneurship platform, AstroLabs, announced today the launch of the region’s first Google for Entrepreneurs Tech Hub, AstroLabs Dubai, at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco. Click here for a list of accelerators and incubators in the region. With the opening of the...

When the 2010 World Cup kicked off, Facebook and Twitter were not public yet and Pinterest was a mere two months old social platform and Instagram didn't exist.  Four years later, the biggest scorer of the 2014 World Cup may not be on the field, but rather, inside of the social media channels activating...

According to research by Gigya, Facebook is the most popular network for people using their social media profiles to log-in to websites, accounting for around 53% of social log-ins globally in the first quarter of 2014. G+ is the second most popular, accounting for 28 per cent, followed by Yahoo (13...

Do you have what it takes to join the Google Student Ambassador Program. Then what are you waiting for. The deadline is on May 1st, 2014. To all the students in the Middle East and North Africa who have wanted a chance to be a part of the Google community, learn about new products and technologies,...