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Tencent just added another portfolio member to its expanding global gaming empire, this time, to up its game in mobile casual plays. Voodoo, the French company behind a slew of popular casual games, announced Monday that Tencent has become a minority shareholder in its business valued at $1.4 billion. The Read more…

Google has fired a lobbying pot-shot at a looming change to the law in Australia that will force it to share ad revenue with local media businesses whose content its platforms monetize — seeking to mobilize its users against “big media”. Last month Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) published Read more…

The website of Notepad++ is banned in China as of Monday, “obviously due to” its release of editions named ‘Free Uyghur’ and ‘Stand With Hong Kong’, the source code and text editor announced on Twitter. First released in 2003 by France-based developer Don Ho, free-to-use Notepad++ operates on Windows and Read more…

Stephen Beckett looks at some of the popular social media apps you might not have heard of. Source: BBC

Hammock, a U.K. fintech/proptech helping landlords and property manages gain better oversight on the financial health of their rental properties, has raised £1 million in seed funding as it readies the launch of a current account. Backing comes from Fuel Ventures and Ascension Ventures, joining existing investors that include Founders Read more…

Facebook is facing heat in India, its biggest market by users, over a report that claimed the company compromised its hate speech policy to favor the ruling party. Politicians from both Bharatiya Janata Party, which rules the government in India, and opposition Indian National Congress lambasted Facebook for its supposed Read more…

Autonomous vehicle startup AutoX announced the public launch of of its self-driving taxi service in Shanghai today. Called simply RoboTaxi, AutoX’s offering already faces competition from Didi, China’s largest ride-hailing platform, which launched its own robo-taxi pilot program in Shanghai at the end of June. AutoX’s RoboTaxis will first be Read more…

President Nana Akufo-Addo says it is not for nothing that his administration is implementing certain relief initiatives to alleviate the harsh impact of Covid-19 on the citizenry. Delivering the 15th address to the nation Sunday, the President admitted that the current global crisis has adversely affected many livelihoods particularly the Read more…

President Akufo-Addo has stated that the new voters’ register compiled by the Jean Mensa-led Electoral Commission is the most credible in Ghana’s history. According to him, in spite of the concerns surrounding the possible exponential spread of Covid-19 as a result of the exercise, the election management body was able Read more…

President Nana Akufo-Addo says all final year Junior High School (JHS) students are to be given one hot meal per day from Monday, August 24. This comes after it was reported that some final year students had been “going hungry in complying with the Covid-19 protocols”. Therefore, in his 15th Read more…

President Akufo-Addo has announced the return to school of continuing students in some tertiary institutions across the country from August 24, 2020. This is to ensure their completion of the year’s academic work as the country continues to ease restrictive protocols in the fight against the novel coronavirus. Whilst most Read more…

President Akufo-Addo says there are no backlogs of tests at any of the country’s testing centres. He said tests results that used to take weeks are now available within 48 hours. According to him, the country “has so far conducted 427,121 tests.” In his 15th update to the nation Sunday Read more…

Manchester United threw away a one-goal lead to crash out of the Europa League as substitute Luuk de Jong scored a late winner to send Sevilla through 2-1 to Friday’s final. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side made the breakthrough from the penalty spot in the ninth minute after Marcus Rashford was Read more…

President Akufo-Addo has disclosed that a survey conducted by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in parts of the capital found that about 82% of respondents use face masks. He, however, added that the survey also revealed only 44.3% of persons who have the masks use them correctly. “I have been Read more…

Fellow Ghanaians, good evening. Today is the fifteenth (15th) time, since the virus came to our country some five (5) months ago, that I have come to provide you with the status of our coordinated efforts to defeat COVID-19. I must thank you, again, for welcoming me into your homes, Read more…

President Akufo-Addo has expressed appreciation to the Electoral Commission (EC) for what he described as the successful conduct of the just-ended voters’ registration exercise. According to him, the transparent manner in which the process was facilitated is an indication of the commitment of the Commissions to ensuring a credible register Read more…

Saeed Ali Yacub, Luv News editor who is also one of Multimedia Group’s longest-serving editors has passed on. The sad event occurred in the early hours of Sunday at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) following a short illness. The father of two buried his mother a week ago. More Read more…

A South African man has narrated how he unknowingly had a baby with a “female ghost” he dated for four years.  The twitter user with the username, @Pluto_GP_ stated that he got to know about his partner’s death after he visited her family to pay her bride price.  “I dated Read more…