Subscribe

free to biz newsletters

Bizcommunity.com - Daily Marketing & Media news
Digital newsPress offices

Was Google Kenya's chief pushed after Mocality debacle?

1 Feb 2012 15:24Submit a commentBizLike
In the wake of the allegations against Google in Kenya brought on by online business directory Mocality, the country manager of Google Kenya, Olga Arara-Kimani, has been asked to leave the company.
Mocality posted evidence on their blog, showing that Google was in violation of their terms of use by scraping their business directory while call centre agents were claiming Google had a relationship with Mocality.

Blog Nairobitech claims that Arara-Kimani was fired from the search engine, as well as "a technical guy" in Zurich. However, Arara-Kimani insists that she left the company on her own and wasn't asked to leave. "I confirm I have left Google Kenya. As the leader of the Kenya office, I felt that the buck stopped with me and I decided to leave," she told Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper.

Read the full story on www.itnewsafrica.com.
 
More options
< Back 
LEGAL DISCLAIMER: This Message Board accepts no liability of legal consequences that arise from the Message Boards (e.g. libel, slander, or other such crimes). All posted messages are the sole property of their respective authors. The maintainer does retain the right to remove any message posts for whatever reasons. People that post messages to this forum are not to libel/slander nor in any other way depict a company, entity, individual(s), or service in a false light; should they do so, the legal consequences are theirs alone. Bizcommunity.com will disclose authors' IP addresses to authorities if compelled to do so by a court of law.
Follow us:

Subscribe

Receive free email newsletter

Make us your homepageAdd us to your favoritesRSS feedGet biz on your phone

Invite

Tell a friend about us