The Minority in Parliament to file a motion for a bipartisan probe into the procurement of Sputnik V vaccines from Russia through middlemen. Government, through the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang Manu has signed two contracts for supply of Sputnik V vaccines at $19 and $18.5 through middlemen. The move government Read more…
UEFA’s Executive Committee has approved a proposal to abolish the away goals rule from all UEFA club competitions. The away goals rule has been part of UEFA competitions since its introduction in 1965 but the rule change means away teams will cannot secure qualification through the away goals from the Read more…
JW Player, a very early mover in the market for online video technology — it powered YouTube’s first video player, before Google acquired it and it built its own — has long been profitable through a business model of providing one-to-many video streaming tools to publishers and others that want Read more…
Electric propulsion developer Orbion Space Technology has raised $20 million in a Series B funding round, which it says it will use to scale production capacity of its Aurora propulsion system. The Michigan-based startup manufactures Hall effect plasma thrusters for use in small and cube satellites. Thrusters are used throughout Read more…
A student of the Komenda Senior High Technical School in the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abirem (KEEA) Municipality of the Central Region, has had her buttocks badly bruised through caning, by a Housemistress in the School. Sarafina Mensah, a boarding student of the School said she was given forty strokes of Read more…
The Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital in partnership with Celecial Medical Equipment Supply has inaugurated an Endoscopy center to serve clients and save them the travel distance of accessing such healthcare. Head of Administration Effia Nkwanta said a diagnostic center had also been established through the same partnership. Therefore, he has Read more…
Volvo Cars and Luminar Technologies are beefing up their partnership. The two companies said Thursday that Luminar’s autonomous driving stack – a combination of hardware and software that includes lidar sensors and a proprietary perception system – will be standard on Volvo’s forthcoming flagship electric SUV. Luminar had previously announced Read more…
A lot of startups were built to help people make all-cash offers on homes with the purpose of gaining an edge against other buyers, especially in ultra-competitive markets. Accepti.inc is a Denver-based company that is attempting to create a new category in real estate technology. To help scale its digital Read more…
It’s no surprise that the coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we shop, especially when it comes to groceries. Grocery delivery apps experienced a record number of downloads in March 2020, and by the following month, Walmart Grocery (which is now integrated into the Walmart app) surpassed Amazon as the Read more…
BMW’s Silicon Valley-based venture capital arm is investing in Kodiak Robotics, a company that develops autonomous trucking technology. Kodiak will use the funds to build out a safety case for its self-driving tech stack so it can more quickly commercialize. It will also work on hiring fresh talent and expanding Read more…
Nine persons have been arrested by the Airport police for persistent harassment of motorists along some traffic intersection within the Airport Division. The Divisional Police commander for the Airport Division Supt. Bismark Agyapong, led a team of officers on Wednesday on the operation, which targeted loitering youth at major traffic Read more…
Deliveroo has had another win in the UK courts, beating back an appeal by the IWGB union which has sought for years to challenge the gig platform over couriers’ rights but has continued to fail to overturn the company’s classification of riders as self-employed. The latest appeals court ruling is Read more…
The crowd capacity at Wembley will be raised to more than 60,000 for the semi-finals and final of Euro 2020, says the UK government. It means the stadium will be at 75% capacity for the games. The increase will also see the largest crowds assembled for a sporting event in Read more…
Former Minister for Power, under the erstwhile NDC administration, Dr Kwabena Donkor has stated that terminators of the Power Purchasing Agreement (PPA) between government of Ghana and Ghana Power Generation Company (GPGC) should be held accountable for the judgement debt incurred. Speaking in an interview to be aired on JoyNews‘ Read more…
Manchester United have increased their offer for Borussia Dortmund’s Jadon Sancho to 85m euros (£72.6m). United have already had one bid for the 21-year-old England winger turned down and their latest is still 10m euros short of the German club’s valuation. However, while the latest bid is unlikely to be Read more…
Visa has announced plans to acquire Tink for €1.8 billion, or $2.15 billion at today’s exchange rate. Tink has been a leading fintech startup in Europe focused on open banking application programming interface (API). Today’s move comes a few months after Visa abandoned its acquisition of Plaid, another popular open Read more…
Remittances — specifically when people in developed countries send money to family or friends in emerging markets — continues to be a huge lever to help those in more challenging economies survive and improve their lot. Today, a startup that has built a remittance platform that it believes is the Read more…
The mobile operator EE is to charge new UK customers to use their phones in Europe. Source: BBC
While the cryptocurrency market’s most recent hype wave seems to be dying down after a spectacular rise, Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto arm is reaffirming its commitment to startups building blockchain projects with a hulking new $2.2 billion crypto fund. It’s the firm’s largest vertical-specific fund ever — by quite a bit. Read more…
South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa had a moment of panic after his iPad mysteriously vanished during a press conference on Tuesday, June 22, leaving him so confused on live TV. The President who was in the Port of Cape Town for an event was delayed because he was unable to Read more…