Was Google Kenya's chief pushed after Mocality debacle?
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.
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