Jeanne Casey Contributor Share on Twitter Jeanne Casey is a principal on the investment team at MetaProp, where she leads new investments into compelling proptech companies and works closely with portfolio companies on strategic growth initiatives. On a Wednesday at Read more…
The chain’s last store in the US state of Oregon is to give locals the chance to stay the night. Source: BBC
The rail firm said free wi-fi was removed from standard-class carriages because of coronavirus. Source: BBC
Ghanaian attacker Samuel Tetteh has joined Major League Soccer club, New York Red Bull on loan from Red Bull Salzburg in Austria. New York Red Bull announced the transfer on Tuesday, six days after Joy Sports broke the news. He Read more…
S2G Ventures, the Chicago-based investment firm focusing on startups developing technology and services for human and planetary health, is launching a new investment vehicle focused on seafood and oceanic cultivation. The firm was an investor in Beyond Meat, the $9 Read more…
Microsoft’s game streaming service is about to launch – despite arguments with Apple over it. Source: BBC
Sanitation Minister Cecilia Abena Dapaah says government’s promise to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa by 2020 is 85% complete. In an interview with Joy News’ Piesie Nana Yaw Safo during a cleanup exercise in parts on Nima Tuesday, Read more…
Shipwrecked on the Mauritian coastline of Pointe d’Esny late July, Wakashio, the vessel carrying just under 4,000 tonnes of oil and 200 tonnes of diesel which has already been spilling its contents from the ship’s hold over the last several Read more…
President Akufo-Addo has cut the sod for the construction of a 400-bed maternity and gynaecology facility at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. The €145m facility to be constructed by Messrs HEBEDI JV will replace the dilapidated six-storey maternity building which Read more…
Everybody wants their skin to look naturally beautiful all the time. Which is why in lockdown, they turned to home care and home remedies, in the absence of beauty salons. Now, more and more people seem to like the fact Read more…
Freelance journalist and a symbol of free speech in Algeria, Khaled Dareni, has been sentenced to three years in prison after being accused of undermining the integrity of the national territory. Khaled Drareni condamné à 3 ans de prison ferme Read more…
Competition of market dominance in the automobile industry intensifies as the dream of every Ghanaian to drive a brand new car gradually becomes a reality. Government has thus introduced a niche market to not only make this dream a reality Read more…
The California court gives the two ride-hailing firms 10 days to challenge the ruling. Source: BBC
Nigeria has begun the handover ceremony for 200 ventilators donated by the US government. The ventilators were a promised by President Donald Trump during a phone conversation with President Muhammadu Buhari in April. President Trump while making the promise said Read more…
As the COVID-19 epidemic spread across the US earlier this year, Nurx, like most other digital providers of healthcare and prescription services saw a huge spike in demand. Now, with $22.5 million in new financing and a surging annual run Read more…
Google has updated its Lookout app, an AI toolkit for people with impaired vision, with two helpful new capabilities: scanning long documents and reading out food labels. Paper forms and similarly-shaped products at the store present a challenge for blind Read more…
Sonny Vu, the former founder and chief executive of the wearable technology company, Misfit, has had a busy summer since he was named the new chief executive of 3D printing technology company, Arevo. Vu’s new startup brought on a new Read more…
Google is launching a handful of new Android features today that don’t really have a lot in common but that are all interesting in their own right. There are updates to Android Auto and Android’s emergency location service, new accessibility Read more…
Mobile device maker HMD Global has announced a $230M Series A2 — its first tranche of external funding since a $100M round back in 2018 when it tipped over into a unicorn valuation. Since late 2016 the startup has exclusively Read more…
Lucid Motors said Tuesday that its upcoming all-electric luxury sedan can travel 517 miles on a single charge — a range that, if validated by the U.S. EPA, blows past every other EV on the road today including Tesla. The Read more…