Chris Kim and Nate Williams formed Union Labs with the conviction that investors and companies aren’t collaborating closely enough to ensure the success of the startups they back. Kim is the former co-founder and chief technology officer at the automatic lock company August. He first met Williams when the company Read more…
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Nonprofit donor management platform EveryAction is buying Mobilize, a company that connects Democratic campaigns to volunteers and helps marshal activists toward progressive causes. Mobilize, formerly known as MobilizeAmerica, grew out of Higher Ground Labs, an incubator focused on leveraging tech for left-leaning political causes and campaigns. With the acquisition, EveryAction Read more…
We’re just about two weeks away from launching TC Sessions: Space 2020, our first focused foray into early-stage space startups and the essential satellite industries that support them. Buy your pass and join us on December 16-17 for two days packed with all the right stuff, including untapped opportunity. Still Read more…
Facial expressions and how long staff speak for would contribute to a score given to a meeting. Source: BBC
Italy’s competition authority has fined Apple €10m for misleading claims about the iPhone. Source: BBC
The advance is expected to accelerate research into a host of human diseases, including Covid-19. Source: BBC
The Presidential Candidate of the Liberal Party of Ghana says when voted into power his government will ensure that every child in the country is given a monthly allowance of GH¢200. According to Kofi Akpaloo, this is fashioned after the child benefit program run in Europe where his 6 children live. Read more…
Orange is the New Black star Laverne Cox has said “it’s not safe if you’re a trans person” after being caught up in a transphobic attack in Los Angeles. Cox posted a 10-minute Instagram video explaining she had been walking with a friend in a park on Sunday when a man “aggressively” Read more…
Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) Jean Mensa has defended her outfit’s commitment to declare the results of the 2020 elections in 24 hours. According to her, this will help diffuse tension in the country. The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) had earlier raised some concerns with that announcement by Read more…
European Union lawmakers are considering whether current rules aimed at limiting the practice of geoblocking across the bloc should be extended to cover access to streaming audio-visual content. Access to services like Netflix tends to be gated to individual EU Member States, meaning Europeans can be barred from accessing libraries Read more…
A research conducted by the Governance Research Bureau (GRB) has predicted there will be a run-off in the upcoming December 7, elections. The new report says none of the candidates is estimated to pull more than 50 percent votes that will be cast in the first round. This is contrary Read more…
President Akufo-Addo says the connection between him and the Ashanti region is stronger and is, therefore, counting on it to win the December 7, general elections. With a voter population of a little of three million and 47 parliamentary seats, researchers say 80 per cent win in the popular votes Read more…
The Royal Senchi Hotel has been named the 2020 best luxury riverside hotel in Africa at the 14th annual World Luxury Hotel Awards. The indigenous Ghanaian brand and three chained-brand hotels in the country were selected from among a pool of world-class hotels and resorts in Africa nominated for the Read more…
ServiceNow, the cloud-based IT services company, is making a significant acquisition today to fill out its longer-term strategy to be a big player in the worlds of automation and artificial intelligence for enterprises. It is acquiring Element AI, a startup out of Canada. Founded by AI pioneers and backed by Read more…
Government has challenged the flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama, to provide evidence to back his claims that the secessionist attacks in the Volta Region were orchestrated by National Security. The former President alleged during an interview with the Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Read more…
Two Togolese opposition leaders are being held by the authorities after they were arrested over the weekend. Brigitte Adjamagbo-Johnson, who in 2010 was the first woman in the country to run for president, was detained on Saturday shortly after visiting a fellow opposition member who had been arrested earlier. Gerard Read more…
President Akufo-Addo has said the New Patriotic Party has the blueprint for the development of the country. He said the foundation for that development has been laid in his first term as president. “In the next term, we will be constructing the house of more prosperity, of more progress and Read more…
Many Ghanaians had different reactions to when the coronavirus was first discovered. Even now, when people still are unsure whether to believe the virus is real or not. Thus to take people behind the scenes of what had ensued prior to and after lockdown, filmmaker Shirley Frimpong-Manso produced her new Read more…
Drugmaker Moderna has completed its initial efficacy analysis of its COVID-19 vaccine from the drug’s Phase 3 clinical study, and determined that it was 94.1% effective in preventing people from contracting COVID-19 across 196 confirmed cases from among 30,000 participants in the study. Moderna also found that it was 100% Read more…