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Google has fired a lobbying pot-shot at a looming change to the law in Australia that will force it to share ad revenue with local media businesses whose content its platforms monetize — seeking to mobilize its users against “big Read more

The website of Notepad++ is banned in China as of Monday, “obviously due to” its release of editions named ‘Free Uyghur’ and ‘Stand With Hong Kong’, the source code and text editor announced on Twitter. First released in 2003 by Read more

Stephen Beckett looks at some of the popular social media apps you might not have heard of. Source: BBC

Hammock, a U.K. fintech/proptech helping landlords and property manages gain better oversight on the financial health of their rental properties, has raised £1 million in seed funding as it readies the launch of a current account. Backing comes from Fuel Read more

Facebook is facing heat in India, its biggest market by users, over a report that claimed the company compromised its hate speech policy to favor the ruling party. Politicians from both Bharatiya Janata Party, which rules the government in India, Read more

Autonomous vehicle startup AutoX announced the public launch of of its self-driving taxi service in Shanghai today. Called simply RoboTaxi, AutoX’s offering already faces competition from Didi, China’s largest ride-hailing platform, which launched its own robo-taxi pilot program in Shanghai Read more

President Nana Akufo-Addo says it is not for nothing that his administration is implementing certain relief initiatives to alleviate the harsh impact of Covid-19 on the citizenry. Delivering the 15th address to the nation Sunday, the President admitted that the Read more

President Akufo-Addo has stated that the new voters’ register compiled by the Jean Mensa-led Electoral Commission is the most credible in Ghana’s history. According to him, in spite of the concerns surrounding the possible exponential spread of Covid-19 as a Read more

President Nana Akufo-Addo says all final year Junior High School (JHS) students are to be given one hot meal per day from Monday, August 24. This comes after it was reported that some final year students had been “going hungry Read more

President Akufo-Addo has announced the return to school of continuing students in some tertiary institutions across the country from August 24, 2020. This is to ensure their completion of the year’s academic work as the country continues to ease restrictive Read more

President Akufo-Addo says there are no backlogs of tests at any of the country’s testing centres. He said tests results that used to take weeks are now available within 48 hours. According to him, the country “has so far conducted Read more

Manchester United threw away a one-goal lead to crash out of the Europa League as substitute Luuk de Jong scored a late winner to send Sevilla through 2-1 to Friday’s final. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side made the breakthrough from the Read more

President Akufo-Addo has disclosed that a survey conducted by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in parts of the capital found that about 82% of respondents use face masks. He, however, added that the survey also revealed only 44.3% of persons Read more

Fellow Ghanaians, good evening. Today is the fifteenth (15th) time, since the virus came to our country some five (5) months ago, that I have come to provide you with the status of our coordinated efforts to defeat COVID-19. I Read more

President Akufo-Addo has expressed appreciation to the Electoral Commission (EC) for what he described as the successful conduct of the just-ended voters’ registration exercise. According to him, the transparent manner in which the process was facilitated is an indication of Read more

Saeed Ali Yacub, Luv News editor who is also one of Multimedia Group’s longest-serving editors has passed on. The sad event occurred in the early hours of Sunday at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) following a short illness. The Read more

A South African man has narrated how he unknowingly had a baby with a “female ghost” he dated for four years.  The twitter user with the username, @Pluto_GP_ stated that he got to know about his partner’s death after he Read more