Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had the full crew around once again, Natasha Mascarenhas, Danny Crichton, Chris Gates, and myself. And as Read more…
Member of defunct music group 4×4, Captain Planet has expressed his displeasure with Ghanaians over the lack of support for homegrown talent. The rapper took to his Twitter page to share his disappointment in the preference of foreign music over Read more…
Chrissy Teigen announced her third pregnancy by showing off her baby bump in John Legend‘s new music video on Thursday. Hours later, she gave fans another look at her burgeoning belly. Teigen, 34, took to Twitter and her Instagram Story on Thursday evening to Read more…
BBC Click’s Paul Carter looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week. Source: BBC
The Campaign Manager of John Mahama 2020 has urged individuals, groups and institutions to speak up against wrongs in society, regardless of which party is in power. Prof. Joshua Alabi said wrongs thrive when right-thinking people remain silent on issues Read more…
Fortnite-maker Epic Games is taking legal action against Google after being banned from the Google Play app store, hours after doing the same with Apple. Apple and Google both removed the hit game from their app stores after Epic Games Read more…
Imani Centre for Policy and Education Ghana, a governance think thank in the country has partnered with Joynews to organize a political debate for 6 six independent presidential candidates at the University of Professional Studies in Accra. The independent presidential Read more…
President Alassane Ouattara will run for a third term in the October elections in Cote d’Ivoire, and some fifty-odd Ivorians are indignant as they took to the streets of Abidjan — the capital city, where they blocked roads in protest Read more…
Six presidential aspirants took part in the maiden edition of the Minority Political Parties and Independent Candidates Election Debate at the University of Professional Studies, Accra. Hosted by JoyNews’ Head of Political Desk, Evans Mensah and anchor Emefa Apawu, the Read more…
Ghana continues to make significant progress in its fight against the Covid-19 pandemic as the country’s active cases on Thursday, dropped to 1,906 from a previous 2,007 on Wednesday. This follows the clinical recovery and discharge of a total Read more…
Boss Jitse Groen says he would rather have staff who get benefits and more workplace protection. Source: BBC
Amazon has launched an online pharmacy in Bangalore, the capital of India’s southern Karnataka state, as the e-commerce group looks to spread its tentacles in more categories in one of its key overseas markets. The company said on Friday its Read more…
Apple and Google removed the hit game from their app stores after it bypassed their payment systems. Source: BBC
The use of third party cookies for ad tracking and targeting by data broker giants Oracle and Salesforce is the focus of class action style litigation announced today in the UK and the Netherlands. The suits will argue that mass Read more…
The internet retail giant’s move comes as US tech firms are investing billions of dollars in India. Source: BBC
The US government seizes millions from the Islamic State group, al-Qaeda and the armed wing of Hamas. Source: BBC
President Donald Trump says he has heard Democratic running mate Kamala Harris “doesn’t qualify” to serve as US vice-president, amplifying a fringe legal theory critics decry as racist. Ms Harris was born to a Jamaican father and Indian mother in Read more…
The Mastercard Foundation on Thursday, August 13, released an important new report, Secondary Education in Africa: Preparing Youth for the Future of Work. Report findings indicate that changes in the nature of work are placing a premium on skills that help young Read more…
After Epic Games picked a fight with Apple over the sizable chunk of fees the company takes on transactions in its mobile ecosystem, it looks like the Fortnite developer will be waging a war on two fronts. Epic added a Read more…
The Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) says there has been a travesty of justice after the President dismissed their petition to impeach Madam Jean Mensa as the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC). Speaking on Newsnight on Joy Read more…