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It will serve self-isolation alerts based on logs of who the user was recently in close contact with. Source: BBC

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Apple is reportedly getting ready to launch new bundles of its various subscription services, according to Bloomberg. The bundled services packages, said to be potentially called ‘Apple One,’ will include Apple services including Apple Music, Apple Arcade, Apple TV+, Apple News+ and iCloud in a number of different tiered offerings, Read more…

A former Deputy Information Minister in the Mahama administration has said the just-ended Voters’ registration exercise was a waste of time and resources. Felix Kwakye Ofosu said the outcome of the exercise doesn’t justify the intent touted by the Electoral Commission. “This has been one big waste of everybody’s time Read more…

The Motor Transport and Traffic Directorate(MTTD) at Madina has disclosed that about 90 persons have been arrested and fined for failing to use the Madina-Adenta footbridge. Station Officer at the unit Chief Inspector Kwame Dosu said the move was to serve as a deterrent to others who intend to get Read more…

There will be no FA Cup replays during the 2020-21 season to “ease pressure” on the football calendar. The competition will start with the extra preliminary around on 1 September and the final is due to be played at Wembley Stadium on 15 May 2021. It has also been announced Read more…

Some staff and members of the Students Representative Council (SRC) of the University College of Environment and Agricultural Studies at Bunso in the Eastern Region are protesting against management. According to the group, the institution has failed to pay the salaries of the workers as well as their Social Security Read more…

A 26-year-old man identified as Kofi Doyini has been shot dead at Nkwantakese, a farming community in the Afigya Kwabre North district of the Ashanti Region. The deceased’s body was found lying in front of the community shrine, sparking rumours of him being murdered by the fetish priest and his Read more…

Human rights activists have condemned the killing of a young woman in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions after a video of alleged separatist rebels slitting her throat drew outrage on social media. The conflict between separatists demanding independence from the mostly Francophone state and government forces has killed more than 3,000 people Read more…

A new remake of the classic computer raises nearly £900,000 in just two days. Source: BBC

As TikTok’s fate remains in flux, its smaller rival Likee has been making waves around the world, garnering 150 million monthly active users as of this June. That’s according to the earnings report of Chinese internet company Joyy, the owner of Likee. For comparison, TikTok recorded about 200 million daily Read more…

Eager to avoid a repeat of its disastrous role as a super-spreader of misinformation during the 2016 election cycle, Facebook is getting its ducks in a row. Following an announcement earlier this summer, the company is now launching a voting information hub that will centralize election resources for U.S. users Read more…

Tencent expects its Chinese messaging app will not be affected by America’s action against the firm. Source: BBC

Ever hear the expression, “every master was once a disaster?” Now apply that to developing a well-crafted pitch. It takes practice and honest feedback to make a masterful pitch, and that’s exactly what you’ll get when you participate in our next Pitchers & Pitches. It’s 50 percent competition, 50 percent Read more…

Earlier this year, the founders of Stream,  a five-year-old, 60-person startup with offices in Boulder and Amsterdam, weren’t feeling so great about their prospects. As COVID-19 began its spread in the U.S., some smaller customers of the startup — whose APIs enable product teams to build chat and activity feeds Read more…

Investors are betting on the automation of human resources management in China. We reported last year that Moka, one of the key players in the space, secured roughly $27 million for its Series B led by Hillhouse Capital. This week, the startup announced closing a Series B+ at over 100 Read more…

Music is front and center in the rise of TikTok and other short-video apps. It’s not just the video platforms that are harvesting the fruit of their surging popularity. Music rights holders are also prepared to extract money from the millions of songs found in snappy user-generated videos. To detect Read more…