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Howdy, I'm MG Siegler. I’m a general partner at CrunchFund and a columnist for TechCrunch. This is where I collect things.
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*except if evilness is good for business.
The basics: Google, by way of their Getting Kenyan Business Online initiative, stole customers (and data) from rival Mocality.
Mocality uncovered as much in a clever sting operation, not unlike the one Google itself used to catch Bing “borrowing” search results last year.
What a fucked up situation. Google has fessed up to it, but is distancing themselves — “a team of people working on a Google project” sure is a funny way of saying “Google employees”. Not good.
Tags tech google mocality google kenya
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