The Champions League final between Chelsea and Manchester City on 29 May will take place in Portugal with 6,000 fans from each club able to attend. The game has been moved from Turkey to the Portuguese city of Porto because of coronavirus restrictions. Portugal is on England’s green list so Read more…
The Judicial Officer of the Ghana Rugby Football Federation (GRFU), Chester Anie, has hinted that the decision of the organisation’s board to suspend the Union’s president, Herbert Mensah, was unconstitutional. The GRFU Board on 11th May suspended its president at a board meeting and named James Nunoo, the vice-president as Read more…
SpaceX’s bourgeoning Starlink satellite-based broadband internet service just got a big boost from a significant new partner: Google Cloud. Thanks to a new partnership between the two, SpaceX will now be locating Starlink ground stations right within Google’s existing data centers, providing the Starlink network with direct access to ground-based Read more…
Liquid Death, a four-year-old, L.A.-based canned mountain water startup that has steadily garnered market share and press coverage by promising, amusingly, to “murder your thirst,” just raised $15 million in Series C funding. The round brings the company’s total backing to date to $50 million. The new financing — it Read more…
While a unicorn named Hopin tends to dominate the virtual conferencing space, a new startup just raised millions of dollars by focusing on what it believes is an untapped niche in the same universe: academic conferences. Morressier, a virtual conference and publishing platform specifically for the scientific community, announced today Read more…
Roku today announced the launch of its own original programming, which will initially become available to viewers in the U.S., U.K., and Canada through the media platform’s free streaming hub, The Roku Channel, starting on May 20th. The debut lineup will include 30 titles, including both the scripted and reality Read more…
Blockset, the blockchain infrastructure platform for enterprises by BRD, announced early access to its Wallet-as-a-Service today. The white-label solution gives clients, like financial institutions, the ability to launch wallets that have the same features as BRD’s own mobile cryptocurrency wallet, which now has about 7 million users with over $20 Read more…
It’s hard to recall a consumer electronics category that matured quite as quickly as the fully wireless earbuds. Things went from a handful of plucky startups to virtually every hardware manufacturer over the course of a year or two. When Amazon entered the category, it did so in an already Read more…
Upsie, a consumer warranty startup, has raised $18.2 million in a Series A round led by True Ventures. The financing brings the total raised for the St. Paul, Minnesota-based startup to $25 million since its 2015 inception. A large group of investors participated in the round, including Concrete Rose VC, Read more…
‘EID’ means recurring happiness or festivity. Eid-ul-Fitr means a day of peace and thanksgiving, a day of forgiveness and moral victory, a day of festive remembrance. Eid-ul-Fitr, which marks the festival of fast-breaking, falls on the first day of shawwal, the tenth month of the Islamic calendar year, following the Read more…
Peer-reviewed research suggests the contact-tracing app prevented between 284,000 and 594,000 cases. Source: BBC
The telecoms giant says its new full-fibre investment strategy could create up to 7,000 jobs. Source: BBC
A 50-minute heavy downpour in Damongo in the West Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region has rendered several residents homeless with many homes, shops and schools flooded in the township. The rain started around 10:00 pm last night and stopped briefly but resumed at dawn today at about 5:00 am Read more…
The Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused the NPP-led administration of oppressing journalists in the country. Taking to social media, Sammy Gyamfi described as “unlawful and preposterous”, the arrest of Citi FM’s journalist, Caleb Kudah and the “Rambo-style” invasion at the Accra-based radio station by operatives Read more…
The order calls for a wide range of moves likely to keep government departments busy. Source: BBC
The Internet of Things just got bigger. Four years after Ford Motor Company introduced an integration with Amazon’s suite of smart home devices, the automaker is beefing up its in-vehicle software offerings with built-in Alexa voice assistant and a wireless software update ecosystem. Ford’s over-the-air software updates, which it has Read more…
The Minister of Environment, Science Technology and Innovation, Dr. Kwaku Afriyie has urged the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to exploit its commercial potential. Although the institutes under the Council have commercial departments, the Minister believes their capacities are yet to be fully realized. He believes the CSIR, Read more…
Kelly Rocklein says she has received abuse since her legal action against the YouTuber became public. Source: BBC
Pressure group, Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) has called for the removal of Roland Affail Monney as President of the Ghana Journalists’ Association (GJA). This is because of what the group describes as the “reckless display of cowardice and individualism” as well as the failure of Affail Read more…
The National Chief Imam, Sheikh Dr Osman Nuhu Sharubutu has admonished Ghanaian Muslims to remain disciplined and desist from any act that will disrupt the country’s peace as they celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr. He further urged Muslims to observe all Covid-19 protocols during the celebrations. “This year’s Eidul-Fitr Salat (prayers) should strictly Read more…