Apple’s marketing of iPhones as ‘water resistant’ without clarifying the limits of the feature and also having a warranty that excludes cover for damage by liquids has got the company into hot water in Italy. The Italian competition authority (AGCM) has informed the tech giant of an intent to fine Read more…
Baltimore County public schools shut after a cyber-attack knocks lessons offline. Source: BBC
The UK government has squeezed the timetable for domestic telcos to stop installing 5G kit from Chinese suppliers, per the BBC, which reports that the deadline for installation of kit from so-called ‘high risk’ vendors is now September. It had already announced a ban on telcos buying kit from Huawei Read more…
Food delivery apps have been a big deal this year both for consumers stuck at home and unable (or unwilling) to go to restaurants or grocery stores, and for investors who are eyeing the opportunity to back rising stars to help them grow. Today came the latest development in that Read more…
We are now into the all-important holiday sales period, and new numbers from Gartner point to some recovery underway for the smartphone market as vendors roll out a raft of new 5G handsets. Q3 smartphone figures from the analysts published today showed that smartphone unit sales were 366 million units, Read more…
SMIC, one of largest chip makers in the world, is among several companies that the Department of Defense plans to designate as being owned or controlled by the Chinese military, reports Reuters. Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order, set to go into effect on January 11, Read more…
British Lithium is prospecting in the county to find economically viable seams of the element. Source: BBC
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Hearts of Oak, Frederick Moore, has resigned. Joy Sports understands that Mr. Moore, who replaced Mark Noonan last year and is currently on sick leave, will not return to his post. Close sources told Joy Sports that Moore said “I think I should be Read more…
Machine learning is helping firms across many industries more quickly solve difficult challenges. Source: BBC
The cut-off date of September for the installation of new equipment is earlier than expected. Source: BBC
Primer, the U.K. fintech that wants to help merchants consolidate their payments stack and easily support new payment methods in the future, has raised £14 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Accel, who I understand were quite proactive in persuading Primer to take the VC firm’s Read more…
The Coca-Cola Bottling Company has presented a cheque for an amount of GHC113,430 to the Covid-19 Private Sector Fund, which recently spearheaded the construction of the first infectious disease centre in Ghana. The Coca-Cola Bottling Ghana raised the funds from a promotion the company has been running for more than Read more…
Thanks I’m giving for the start of the first big online season. Yes, the pandemic has put in place a gigantic move to the digital for our immediate and accelerated future. We all know how this plays out in the required state of things pre-vaccine. But there’s an undercurrent not Read more…
London HQ’d Firstminute Capital has announced its second early-stage venture fund of $111m (£87m). Founded and cornerstoned in 2016 by Brent Hoberman CBE (best known as co-founder of lastminute.com and MADE.com), together with Spencer Crawley (formerly of Goldman Sachs), this new fund comes after the first fund of $100M, giving Read more…
Hearts of Oak suffered their first defeat of the 2020/21 Ghana Premier League season after losing 1-0 to Inter Allies at the Accra Sports stadium. Both sides were separated by a powerful volley by Richmond Lamptey in the second half which proved to be the difference. Hearts came into the Read more…
GCB Bank Limited has announced the closure of its Kantamanto branch, in the Liberty House Building complex, at the Central Business District of Accra, following a fire outbreak on Saturday, November 28, 2020. “For safety precautions, Management of the Bank has accordingly closed down the Liberty Branch to allow for Read more…
The Back to School Quiz Competition organized by Luv Fm came to a victorious end for the “Botwes” as they clinged the ultimate title of the maiden edition. The finals of the competition saw representatives of Prempeh College, Yaa Asantewaa Girls and Mfantsipim School go head on for the trophy Read more…
Some supporters of the NDC and NPP at Yagaba in the North East region have been involved in a violent clash, leaving some of their supporters injured. According to the Deputy Chief of Police, NPP supporters were alleged to have shot into the vehicle of incumbent MP, Amadu Tanko when Read more…
The convoy of the Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has been involved in an accident. The incident is said to have occurred Sunday on the Berekum-Drobo road while Kwame Baffoe Abronye and his entourage were returning from a rally organised at Atuna in the Jaman South Read more…
In the early 1980s, the world faced a novel condition. It produced such dire effects on the people it affected that in no time, it became a disease dreaded by most, if not all around the globe. Four decades down the line, HIV has claimed the lives of millions worldwide Read more…