The prices of hydroxychloroquine skyrockets in sub-Sahara African countries amid Covid-19. Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, there have been claims that hydroxychloroquine can help in preventing and treating the deadly virus, and since it’s been a valuable object that is trafficked. Chloroquine is well known in Africa and was Read more…
A Chinese court has sentenced a Canadian national to death for producing drugs, a ruling that came amid rising tension between the two countries over the Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei. Xu Weihong, a Canadian national, was sentenced to death in a trial of first instance, Guangzhou Intermediate Court said in Read more…
The British High Commissioner to Ghana, Iain Walker says a lot of progress has been made in developing a vaccine for Covid-19 has gone faster than any other vaccine in history. Speaking in an interview with Kojo Yankson on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show on Wednesday, he indicated that as Read more…
Special is a new startup offering online video creators a way to move beyond advertising for their income. The service was created by the team behind tech consulting and development firm Triple Tree Software. Special’s co-founder and CEO Sam Lucas told me that the team had already “scrapped our way Read more…
The National Communications Officer for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has filed a criminal complaint against the legislator for Assin Central. Sammy Gyamfi’s action follows alleged threats issued by Kennedy Agyapong during an interview on Asempa FM. In the suit sighted by JoyNews and signed by AB&M Legal Consult, Sammy Read more…
Loren Appin Contributor Share on Twitter Loren Appin is co-founder and COO of Fishbowl, a workplace social network bringing together professionals during the new era of remote work. The death of George Floyd and the recent Black Lives Matter protests have drawn widespread attention to the systemic racism within the Read more…
As sales teams partner with other companies, they go through a process called account mapping to find common customers and prospects. This is usually a highly manual activity tracked in spreadsheets. Crossbeam, a Philadelphia startup, has come up with a way to automate partnership data integration. Today the company announced Read more…
Five persons have been injured after bodyguards of the New Patriotic Party Parliamentary candidate for Ajumako Enyan Easiam constituency allegedly attacked registrants at Ajumako Bisease. Narrating what led to the disturbance, Joy News’ Richard Kwadwo Nyarko said Dr Rashid Kwesi Etuaful had information that people largely foreigners were being bused Read more…
Covid-19 hit the shores of Ghana, in the middle of March when the country recorded its first two cases, the lives of Ghanaians have been changed drastically even as the cases keep increasing. In the midst of this pandemic, a lot of discussions have been held, ranging from statistics: in Read more…
WordPress.com, a division of Automattic, is launching a new product called P2. And this time, it’s all about improving internal communications for private groups. As a remote company, Automattic has been using P2 internally for years to communicate asynchronously. It’s a place to share long-form posts, a repository to keep Read more…
The UK-based chip designer’s ex-president Tudor Brown warns of the risks of the firm being sold on. Source: BBC
Premier League clubs have voted against continuing to allow five substitutions in a match for the 2020-21 season. The rule was brought in when the 2019-20 top-flight season restarted in June, having been halted for three months because of the coronavirus pandemic. For next season, the league will revert to Read more…
TikTok, the Chinese video sharing app that’s found itself at the center of a geopolitical power struggle which threatens to put hard limits on its global growth this year, said today it will build its first data center in Europe. The announcement of a TikTok data center in the EU Read more…
Uber has bought UK based Autocab, which sells SaaS to the taxi and private hire vehicle industry, with the aim of expanding the utility of its own platform by linking users who open its app in places where it doesn’t offer trips to local providers who do. No acquisition price Read more…
The social media star is no stranger to controversy and has had other run-ins with law enforcement. Source: BBC
Over a third of the world’s smartphone sales come from Chinese vendors Huawei, Xiaomi and Oppo. These manufacturers have thrived not only because they offer value-for-money handsets thanks to China’s supply chains, but they also enjoy a relatively open mobile ecosystem, in which consumers in most countries can freely access Read more…
Infermedica, the Poland-founded health tech startup that offers an AI-driven platform for preliminary diagnosis and triage, has raised just over $10 million in Series A funding. The round is led by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and digital health fund Heal Capital. Existing investors Karma Ventures, Inovo Read more…
In an open letter to Facebook’s leadership posted earlier today, the attorneys general from twenty states called on the company to do more to fight intimidation, discrimination, disinformation, harassment and hate speech on the platform. “Although Facebook has made some progress in counteracting the use of its platform to dehumanize Read more…
Twitter took action against the official Trump campaign Twitter account Wednesday, freezing @TeamTrump’s ability to tweet until it removed a video in which the president made misleading claims about the coronavirus. In the video clip, taken from a Wednesday morning Fox News interview, President Trump makes the unfounded assertion that Read more…
The social networks say a post of a TV interview Mr Trump gave contained Covid-19 “misinformation”. Source: BBC