{"id":3993,"date":"2012-01-23T12:14:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T12:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=3993"},"modified":"2012-01-23T12:17:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T12:17:03","slug":"google-website-initiative-attracts-early-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/3993\/google-website-initiative-attracts-early-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Google website initiative attracts early interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a>\u2019s new website initiative targeted at small and medium businesses (SME), launched on Thursday, has sparked immediate results the group said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with local radio station, 94.7\u00a0Highveld\u00a0Stereo,\u00a0Google South Africa country manager Luke Mckend said that Woza Online had garnered more than 1,000 new websites.<\/p>\n<p>Woza Online is an initiative by Google, partnering with <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227063-Vodacom\" target=\"_blank\">Vodacom<\/a>, the Department of Trade &amp; Industry, and the Human Resources Development Council.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative aims to bring tens of thousands of SMEs online in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Using the platform, businesses will be able to create their own websites and develop an online presence at no charge.<\/p>\n<p>The programme was launched in Kenya and Nigeria last year, with these countries seeing over 20,000 businesses going online within the first two months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s new website initiative targeted at small and medium businesses (SME), launched on Thursday, has sparked immediate results the group said on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,969,53,27],"class_list":["post-3993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-department-of-trade-industry","tag-google","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3993"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4031,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions\/4031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}