Lucid Motors CEO and CTO Peter Rawlinson had a clear vision for how to take an electric car to another level. The former chief engineer of the Tesla Model S just didn’t expect it to take quite so long. Today, nearly four years since the company first announced its intentions Read more…
A massive content recommendation merger falls apart, Microsoft reveals the release date and pricing for its flagship game console and Alexa enables phone calls for AT&T customers. This is your Daily Crunch for September 9, 2020. The big story: Taboola and Outbrain call off their merger Looks like the two Read more…
Instagram announced some changes it’s making that are geared toward advancing equity within its workplace. The changes come after Instagram in June spoke about elevating, rather than suppressing, Black voices in light of the killing of George Floyd. “More than ever, people are turning to the platform to raise awareness Read more…
Metadata.io announced today that it has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding. It’s been more than four years since I wrote about the startup’s $2 million seed funding. At the time, co-founder and CEO Gil Allouche described the product as helping business-to-business marketers target their ads as people who resemble Read more…
Democrat Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by 12 percentage points nationally among likely U.S. voters, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll that also showed the number of persuadable voters had shrunk compared with four years ago. The Sept. 3-8 poll, released on Wednesday, found 52% of likely voters planned Read more…
Finance Ministry has held separate virtual meetings with the Social Partnership Council (SPC) and the leadership of Faith-Based Organisations (FBOs) as part of its stakeholder engagement and consultations drive to deepen the understanding of the Agyapa Royalties agreement. The Social Partnership Council made up of the Labour Unions, Ghana Employers Read more…
The Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNAPS) has dissociated itself from an alleged syndicate by an organisation geared towards embezzling funds from government’s Covid-19 stimulus package. According to GNAPS, the organisation is suspected to be making a 4% deduction from the funds disbursed by the National Board for Small Read more…
Volunteers are assisting the Ghana Navy and Police in Kete-Krachi to search for the body of a child out of five rescued from a boat accident on River Oti in the Krachi West District of the Oti Region. The victims and their children were returning home to Nkomi after going Read more…
The Ghana Red Cross Society (GRCS) in collaboration with the Swiss Red Cross has commissioned 102 units of two-bedroom houses constructed for victims of the October 2019 flood in six communities across the Builsa North District and Kassena Nankana Municipality. The communities include; Mayoro benefitting 33, Nantuna 17, Chuchuliga 26, Read more…
President Nana Akufo-Addo, has cut the sod for the commencement of work for the construction of the Nkoranza District Hospital. Cutting the sod on Wednesday on day 2 of his working visit to the Bono East Region, the President noted that, “this project has been on the drawing board for Read more…
Two fishermen, who robbed a trader of his two mobile phones valued at ¢170.00 and ¢120.00 have been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment each, by an Accra Circuit Court. Joseph Tetteh, 21, and Daniel Lomotey, 20, were found guilty on the charge of robbery. The court presided over Rosemary Baah Read more…
China’s UK embassy has asked Twitter to “make thorough investigations” after its ambassador’s official account liked a pornographic clip. Liu Xiaoming’s account also liked posts that criticised the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and showed blindfolded Uighurs being detained. Officials claimed that “anti-Chinese elements had viciously attacked” Mr Liu’s account in Read more…
A 13-year-old boy in Glendale, Utah, was shot several times by police officers after his mother called 911 for help with his mental health crisis. Linden Cameron, who has Asperger’s, a form of autism, is now in a serious condition in hospital, his mother said. Golda Barton said she had Read more…
The Chinese UK ambassador’s account liked an adult clip as well as posts critical of Beijing. Source: BBC
Last time around, Sony undercut its rival after waiting to go second to see what Microsoft would do. Source: BBC
The app has been piloted at Network Rail and is now ready for use in other workplaces. Source: BBC
The mortgage market is one of the central pillars of the financial system of many countries. Besides its role in helping to deepen capital markets and providing a strong credit channel for monetary policy, the mortgage market has welfare implications as it impacts on households’ ability to meet one of Read more…
When companies need to find manufacturers to build custom parts, it’s not always an easy process, especially during a pandemic. Xometry, a 7-year old startup based in Maryland has built an online marketplace where companies can find manufacturers across the world with excess capacity to build whatever they need. Today, Read more…
Astute, a customer engagement platform headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, is announcing that it has acquired social media marketing company Socialbakers. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Socialbakers CEO Yuval Ben-Itzhak will become president of Socialbakers for the combined company, and he told me via email that the Read more…
Slack’s shares are set to fall sharply this morning, down around 16% in pre-market trading. As the company beat analyst expectations last quarter and guided within range, the selloff might feel a little surprising. Perhaps it shouldn’t. I spoke with a VC last week about what the new benchmark results Read more…