Major oil producer, Royal Dutch Shell, has hinted on reducing jobs of about 7,000 to 9,000 to save up to $2.5 billion by 2022. The Chief Executive Officer, Ben van Beurden, revealed this in an interview on Wednesday 30th September, 2020 saying the move is expected to deliver sustainable annual Read more…
Sales expert and trainer, Mawuli Ocloo says most sales companies attach emotions to unsuccessful operations, hence their inability to identify between a good and bad customer. According to him, these organisations do not take their time to observe their mistakes nor analyse the situation, hence lose customers. Speaking on the Read more…
Motif Foodworks, the Ginkgo Bioworks spinout focused on developing new plant-based flavorings and food ingredients, is readying commercial scale production of its first product an ingredient to improve the flavor of beef substitutes. The expansion of Motif’s manufacturing capacity presages the commercial availability of its new flavoring, which should be Read more…
New Rwandan High Commissioner to Ghana, Dr Aisa Kirabo Kacyira on Wednesday visited The Multimedia Group to familiarise herself with the operations of the company. She lauded the managers of the Group for their good work informing, educating and entertaining the nation. Dr Kacyira introduced herself and her team as Read more…
Millions of people were affected by breach, which firm previously said did not involve bank details. Source: BBC
Cisco is making another acquisition to expand its reach in security solutions, this time specifically targeting DevOps and the world of container management. It is acquiring PortShift, an Israeli startup that has built a Kubernetes-native security platform. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed. PortShift had raised about $5.3 Read more…
Earlier this month, cloud data warehouse Snowflake turned heads when it debuted on the stock market. Today, Altinity, the commercial company behind the open source ClickHouse data warehouse announced a $4 million seed round from Accel along with a new cloud service, Altinity.Cloud. “Fundamentally, the company started out as an Read more…
After years of soul searching, Everton seem to have finally found the heir to Romelu Lukaku in the form of newly-born Dominic Calvert-Lewin. The English man is one of the many players who have enjoyed a good start to the 2020/21 campaign as he has continued to show signs of Read more…
Ghanaian artist, Emmanuel Apraku popularly known as Ray Styles is dead. This was announced by television and radio personality, Giovanni Caleb today on his Twitter page. The death of the artist follows months of battle with liver cancer. Pictures of the talented artist looking sick and helpless had hit social Read more…
Huawei Technologies Ghana has opened applications for its global flagship Corporate Social Responsibility Program “Seeds for the Future 2020”, set to commence from October 26 – 30, 2020. This is in partnership with the Ministry of Communication, Ministry of Education, UNESCO, National Council of Tertiary Education, University of Ghana, KNUST Read more…
Facebook has now banned ads seeking to “delegitimise lawful methods of voting”. Source: BBC
The 2019/2020 cocoa season has seen over 19,000 cocoa farmers become beneficiaries of the ¢6million disbursed by Cargill last month through its Licensed Buying Company (LBC), Cargill Kokoo Sourcing Limited (CKSL) as sustainability premiums for cocoa beans bought. This premium payment is part of strategies to incentivise farmers to adopt Read more…
Microsoft just added a couple of key additions to its ever-growing lineup of Surface devices. There are a bunch of new accessories and an update to the Surface Pro X, which you can read about here. The biggest news of the morning, however, is the arrival of the Surface Laptop Read more…
Microsoft today announced the second generation of its Arm-based Surface Pro X tablet. The first generation of the Pro X launched last October and since then, Microsoft worked with Qualcomm to design the second generation of the SQ2 processor that powers it. The SQ2 doesn’t fully replace the first-generation SQ1 Read more…
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend have lost their child following pregnancy complications, the couple announced on their social media accounts. “We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before,” said the statement posted to each of their verified Twitter Read more…
Cybersecurity giant Imperva will acquire jSonar, a database security startup that recently landed $50 million from Goldman Sachs. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The acquisition of jSonar, which provides security and compliance to databases on-premise or in the cloud, will help bolster Imperva’s data security business. As part Read more…
Barcelona have completed the signing of United States full-back Sergino Dest from Ajax Amsterdam for 21 million euros plus five more in variables, the Liga side said on Thursday. Barca’s statement added that Dest, 19, had agreed to sign a five-year contract with a release clause of 400 million euros. Read more…
SOPHiA GENETICS, the shoutily and poorly capitalized named startup that’s combining machine learning tools for medical imaging and genetic sequencing to come up with a more holistic view of diseases for better patient care, has raised $110 million in new funding. The Series F round for the company was led Read more…
LeBron James says the Los Angeles Lakers still have “a lot more work to do” after they comfortably beat the injury-hit Miami Heat 116-98 in game one of the NBA Finals. Anthony Davis scored 34 points for the Lakers, with James adding 25 points and nine assists. Jimmy Butler had Read more…
As it begins expanding beyond its home base in Mexico City, the on-demand, online only grocery store Jüsto has added another $5 million in early stage funding. The new money came from Bimbo Ventures, the strategic investment arm of one of the world’s largest bakery companies, Bimbo, and Sweet Capital, Read more…