Google’s first campus for startups and entrepreneurs in Asia has opened in a
glitzy neighborhood of South Korea’s capital Seoul.
Google cited South Korea’s flourishing startup scene and pervasive smartphone
use as the reasons for picking Seoul after opening similar sites in London and
Tel Aviv.
Located in Gangnam, Campus Seoul rents out its 2,000 square meter (21,528
square foot) space to startups. It also plans to host events for tech
startups and for female entrepreneurs with children.
An earlier report
points out that a Google toolbar to streamline tasks such as searching the
Internet or bookmarking online pages with Web browsing programs made its debut
in Cuba.
The US-based Internet colossus updated its Spanish-language blog to put out
word that people in Cuba could download the toolbar, which can be affixed atop
browsers for quick access to Google services or capabilities when venturing
online.
In August of last year, Google made its Chrome web-browsing program
available in Cuba so people there could search “faster and safer,” according to
the updated blog post by the Pedro Less Andrade, the company’s director of
public government and political affairs for Latin America.
The United States authorized commercial ferry services to Cuba for the first
time in more than a half-century on Tuesday, another major step in improving
relations between the two countries.
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