Pinterest has appointed Andrea Wishom, president of real estate company Skywalker Holdings* and former Harpo Studios executive, to its board of directors. The appointment makes her Pinterest’s first Black board member and third female board member. Pinterest added its first female board member in 2016, when it appointed Michelle Wilson, Read more…
Lana, a new startup based in Madrid, is looking to be the next big thing in Latin American fintech. Founded by serial entrepreneur Pablo Muniz, whose last business was backed by one of Spain’s largest financial services institutions, BBVA, Lana is looking to be the all-in-one financial services provider for Read more…
After taking a stand against Apple’s hefty cut of the money developers make through the App Store, Fortnite maker Epic Games shows no signs of backing down. The company filed a motion for an injunction against Apple in the U.S. District Court for California’s Northern District on Monday after it Read more…
Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator is a technological marvel that sets a new standard for the genre. But to recreate a world that feels real and alive and contains billions of buildings all in the right spots, Microsoft and Asobo Studios relied on the work of multiple partners. One of those Read more…
The president has published four videos but has only 11,000 followers. Source: BBC
The actions will stop the firm buying computer chips made using US tech, even if made abroad. Source: BBC
From insurance and healthcare to social media and policing, algorithms are used all around us. Source: BBC
A court in Accra has fined 30 year old Christopher Ayittey an amount of GH¢ 3,600 for administering multiple fist blows to his sons cheek. The marketing consultant’s act against his 11-year old son resulted in the loss of the boy’s tooth. Christopher Ayittey, in default would serve a six-month Read more…
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest big news, chats about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from Read more…
The Referees Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) in consultation with the Assessors and Classification Panel have approved a list of 30 referees for next month’s FIFA/MA ELITE Online Course. The FIFA course will run from 30th September to 2nd October 2020. The list includes 20 FIFA Referees and Read more…
The NBA playoff pool is deeper than ever this season. Playoff teams will split a record $23,287,266 for making the NBA postseason, a figure that’s up about $1.6 million from last year. And the Milwaukee Bucks stand to grab the biggest share of a pool ever, if they win the Read more…
They have millions of followers, but Egypt’s social media stars are paying a heavy price. Source: BBC
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has inaugurated a 29-member Volta Regional Campaign Team to prosecute vigorous strategies to retain the party going into the December general elections. The team’s duty is to give visibility to the Party’s Presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to win massively to continue with its Read more…
There’s an increasing demand for fast turnaround time in the satellite imaging industry, especially among clients across government and defense, who want responsive, near-real time performance because of how quickly situations on the ground can develop and change. BlackSky, a sensor and satellite-based monitoring technology company, has broken new ground Read more…
Asante Kotoko have not decided on their participation in CAF Champions League, a board member, Alhaji Abu Lamine has revealed. The Porcupine Warriors and their regional rivals, AshantiGold have been selected by the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to represent the country in next season’s CAF inter-club competitions. The decision was Read more…
Nollywood actress Kate Henshaw has reacted to claims that celebrities are being paid to say Covid-19 is real in Nigeria. She had shared her painful experience on her Instagram page after she went for Covid-19 test. View this post on Instagram #Covid test taken….. This is the new normal before Read more…
The only copy of Ed Sheeran’s first demo album that he does not own himself is being auctioned and set to fetch £10,000. The star wrote the songs when he was 13 and owns 19 of the 20 copies in the hope no one gets their hands on it but Read more…
Ghana continues to make significant progress in its fight against the Covid-19 pandemic as the country’s active cases have again dropped to 1,847 from a previous 1,906 on Friday, August 14. On its dedicated website, the Ghana Health Service said out of the active cases, 6 people are in critical Read more…
President Akufo Addo has lifted the limit on the numbers of persons who can attend conferences, workshops and award events. Addressing the state yesterday, August 16, the president stated that “the limit on the number of persons who can attend conferences, workshops and award events, has now been lifted”. This, Read more…
Actor Clement Bonney aka ‘Mr Beautiful’ has said the creative arts industry is dormant due to the vindictiveness of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP). Speaking in an interview in Cape Coast on Saturday, he said the current government’s quest to get back at its political opponents for no reasons Read more…