Eric Hippeau is the founding partner at Lerer Hippeau Ventures, whose portfolio companies include the likes of Axios, BuzzFeed, Casper, Warby Parker, Allbirds, DocSend, Fundera, Everlane, Giphy, Genius and the recently acquired fitness company Mirror. It would not be an overstatement to say that Hippeau is well-positioned to discuss startups Read more…
The home-sharing firm threatens legal action against guests or hosts who violate the ban. Source: BBC
Flagbearer for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Mahama has thrown a challenge to his successor for a debate on the record of their respective governments, especially on infrastructure development. “I am willing to present myself for a debate with President Akufo-Addo any day, anytime, anywhere. And we will settle Read more…
Facebook removes and restricts thousands of groups and accounts dedicated to promoting the conspiracy theory. Source: BBC
Trade and Industry Minister John Alan Kyeremante has been unveiled as the best Trade and Investment minister in Africa by United Kingdom-based editorial board of the African Leadership Magazine for 2020. The keenly contested awards attracted over 220, 000 entries on the website and across social media platforms, as well Read more…
American Airlines Group Inc said Thursday it plans to suspend flights to 15 U.S. airports in October as travel demand remains low as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Congress has been weighing for weeks whether to grant U.S. airlines another $25 billion in payroll assistance that would keep tens Read more…
Help your whole family cope with the stress of returning to in-person or online school. School anxiety is on another level this year due to the pandemic. Most parents and students would likely agree that the transition to online schooling this past March was not exactly smooth. So, many will Read more…
The promise of SaaS has always been about taking tedious, expensive manual tasks and finding a way to build a platform to automate them. Cobalt.io is doing that with pentesting, the process of testing an application for security vulnerabilities before it goes out the door. Today, the startup announced a Read more…
Ready for our first virtual TC Sessions Mobility 2020? As we like to say, it’s not just one long webinar. We’re creating the quality production levels you’d expect from our IRL events (thanks, technology). This session spans two days — October 6-7 — to give you more time to take Read more…
Most of us are now familiar with apps that track what’s known as our ‘digital biomarkers’. These include the steps, we’ve taken, our heart rate, and our weight. In recent years startups have appeared which can, in a relatively turnkey manner, track our ‘biomedical markers’, such as cholesterol levels, for Read more…
The band have “repeatedly taken issue with the Trump campaign” about videos featuring their hits. Source: BBC
“Any time you’re moving dirt you have to have somebody come in and assess it, whether that’s under a state or federal jurisdiction… because of the waters that are present,” says Ecobot co-founder and chief executive, Lee Lance. “It has been a pen and paper process since the Clean Water Read more…
Former Education Minister, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang has pledged that the next NDC administration will phase out all witch camps, particularly the Gambaga witches camp, to make the practice a thing of the past. According to the running mate of the NDC’s 2020 flagbearer, the presence of witch camps is Read more…
Klara, a New York-based healthcare startup that pitches itself as a better tool for patient engagement for doctor’s offices and other clinical practices, has raised $15 million in new financing. The money comes as investors continue to pour cash into companies developing new communications, diagnostics and management tools for medical Read more…
Twitter users have to wait to longer to find out what penalties, if any, the platform faces under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for a data breach that dates back around two years. In the meanwhile the platform has continued to suffer security failures — including, just Read more…
The running mate to former President John Dramani Mahama, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang has assured teachers of enhanced remuneration when the party returns to power after the December elections. She also assured teachers and nursing trainees of innovative financial interventions, including increased training allowances and educational loan facilities, to facilitate Read more…
The next National Democratic Congress (NDC) government will restore the quality of education in the country, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has said. According to the running mate of the NDC’s flagbearer, the fast deteriorating state of the educational sector, under the present government, threatens the future of the country. “We Read more…
The inability of parents and guidance to buy sanitary pads and properly feed young girls have been identified as key factors pushing young girls to engage in unprotected sex in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District of the Central Region. Some parents have neglected their core responsibility of caring for their children’s basic Read more…
Ligue 1 side FC Metz have opened negotiations with Udinese over the transfer of Ghanaian defender Nicholas Opoku. The 22-year-old spent the second half of the season on loan at Amiens who ended up being relegated. Amiens were still interested in making the Opoku deal permanent and wanted to activate Read more…
Children’s summer camp provider Richard Bernstein says he has had mums and dads sobbing down the line to him. ‘We have had parents crying for us to open’ The children’s activities sector says it has been hit hard by the coronavirus lockdown, and claims it has not been given the Read more…