Gustavo Parés Contributor Share on Twitter Gustavo Parés is CEO of NDS Cognitive Labs, a leader in cognitive computing and AI business solutions. A professor at Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), he’s partnered with Microsoft, IBM Read more…
Apple last month unveiled its plans for paid podcast subscriptions in a newly redesigned Apple Podcasts app. Now, it’s introducing a new program that will help podcast creators grow their subscriber base: affiliate marketing. The company’s “Apple Services Performance Partner Read more…
Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), the venture arm of the 37-year-old private equity firm Bain Capital, announced this morning that it has $1.3 billion more smackers to invest across two funds, a $950 million fund for seed and Series A deals Read more…
Amid a pre-recorded Partner Summit where Snap took users through a whole set of new tools for Snapchat users, creators and companies, Snap also threw in a “one more thing” at the end that shows the company, after a rocky Read more…
President Biden’s vision for an empowered, expanded IRS is poised to have a big impact on cryptocurrency trading. According to a new report from the U.S. Treasury Department, the administration wants to put new requirements in place that would make Read more…
Portside, an aviation startup that is building a platform for managing the backend of a corporate flight department, charter operation, government fleet and fractional ownership operation, today announced that it has raised a $17 million funding round led by Tiger Read more…
The tech giant said it was complying with local law but did not compromise data security. Source: BBC
Months after users raised concerns, Twitter drops its algorithm for cropping photos over bias worries. Source: BBC
President Akufo-Addo has accepted the decision by the Council of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) to confer on him an honorary degree of Doctorate of Philosophy in Educational Leadership. This was made known in a letter signed by the Read more…
Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has touted the administration’s industrialisation drive describing it as unmatched since Ghana’s first President Kwame Nkrumah exited the political scene. The industrial transformation of the country, according to the Vice President, remains a top priority Read more…
Microsoft has set a deadline for retiring its legacy web browser from consumer versions of Windows 10. Source: BBC
Trees, those deciduous entities you can occasionally see outdoors when not locked down or strapped down at a desktop ruminating on a video call, have long been the inspiration for fresh new ideas. Stories abound of how founders built companies Read more…
Ford Motor Company and Seoul, South Korea-based SK Innovation signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a joint venture to domestically manufacture batteries for electric vehicles, the two companies said Thursday. The new venture, dubbed BlueOvalSK, will produce around 60 Read more…
Award-winning reggae/dancehall artiste Stonebwoy has said he has no plans of signing any artiste on his record label. Speaking in an interview with Andy Dosty on Daybreak Hitz, Stonebwoy born Livingstone Etse Satekla revealed that he has decided to channel Read more…
Non-fungible tokens have set the music industry abuzz – but are these digital assets set to last? Source: BBC
The Ghana Revenue Authority Debt Management and Enforcement Unit has resumed its debt distress action to recoup accumulated petroleum taxes from some Oil Marketing Companies. The operations begun this morning at the premises of Grid Petroleum which is owing in Read more…
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources will soon table proposals before Cabinet to reform the country’s mining industry. Samuel Abu Jinapor, the sector Minister, who said this at a media briefing in Accra on Wednesday, said the reforms Read more…
In an increasingly globalized economy, a country’s most precious resources are not extracted from deep within its bowels. It is not the oil, gold or cocoa that will, in the end, lead to Ghana’s economic prosperity. Our greatest and most Read more…
Powerpoint may still dominate the landscape for presentations in many people’s minds, but some might say that legacy status also makes Microsoft’s software ripe for disruption. Now, a startup out of Berlin called Pitch has just picked up a substantial Read more…
Health authorities in the North East Region have cautioned residents of Bunbuazio in the East Mamprusi Municipality to stop drinking water from a stream in the community. This follows an outbreak of typhoid fever linked to the unwholesome water source Read more…