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• 09.01.09
  Google sends out the cars for Street View SA google | (1)

  At last: Google today announced that it will begin imagery collection in South Africa for the Street View feature in its Google Maps. In the coming weeks Google, using Toyota Prius models, will begin driving around South Africa and taking photographs of locations, including Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth and Durban. Street View is a hugely popular feature of Google Maps that is already available in more than 100 metropolitan areas around the world. It allows users to virtually explore and navigate a neighbourhood through panoramic street-level images. It is also available in Google Earth and on Google Maps for ...

  Tagged: Google SA, Google South Africa
  
• 08.03.09
  10 questions for new Google SA head: Stephen Newton google, Interviews & press, online media business, SA Media | (8)

  New Google SA Head Stephen Newton (Credit: FM Tech). Stephen Newton is the country's new Google head. He's an American who has been living in the UK. He's now based in Johannesburg, heading up the local Google office. He studied as a lawyer, has previously been the GM of Hitwise UK, a Vice President at Double Click, and then Google EMEA Head of Analytics & Commerce. Newton describes South Africa as "Africa’s entrepreneurial heart" and is looking at ways of broadening the country's internet access. He's a rugby fan, and a nice, down-to-earth guy to have lunch with. I asked him 10 ...

  Tagged: doubleclick, google emea, Google SA, Google South Africa, stephen a newton, Stephen Newton