Google has long had a frenemy position with regards to the world of news: it can direct a lot of traffic to online publishers, but that’s only if people bother to click on links after getting the gist of the story from Google itself (and that’s before considering Google’s AMP Read more…
A lot of people are opting to use cars instead of taking public transportation in the UK at the moment, as a way of ensuring more social distancing, and today one of the startups that’s built a more efficient way of selling and buying cars is announcing a big round Read more…
You know what, I’ve been blessed. I didn’t realise it at the time, but I owe a lot of who I am today to what the adults in my life taught me as I grew up. And there were many of them – adults AND lessons. Of course, at the Read more…
A Professor at the Institute of Environment and Sanitation Studies at the University of Ghana has stated that the country has lost more than GH₵36 billion (US$6.3 billion) to environmental degradation. Professor Chris Gordon revealed that analysis by the World Bank on the stage of the country’s environmental degradation underestimated Read more…
Google, which reaches more internet users than any other firm in India and commands 99% of the nation’s smartphone market, has stumbled upon an odd challenge in the world’s second largest internet market: Scores of top local entrepreneurs. Dozens of top startups and firms in India are working to form Read more…
The National Information Technology Agency (NITA) has advised heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as well as Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to consult the Agency when engaging information technology firms to manage their data. The Acting Director-General of NITA, Richard Okyere-Fosu, who gave the advice, said that Read more…
The Registrar-General, Jemima Oware, has cautioned prospective clients of the Registrar General’s Department to be wary of the activities of middlemen and to avoid their services. She said the Department had put in place measures to control activities of the middlemen, who allegedly collected monies from prospective applicants in the Read more…
A Professor at the Institute of Environment and Sanitation Studies at the University of Ghana has revealed that the use of mercury for illegal mining has psychological side effects on children in the area. Professor Chris Gordon said the inhalation of the chemical substance used by the ‘galamseyers’ poses a Read more…
Government has called for more collaboration from chiefs and residents of the Volta Region as the nation clamps down on the separatists group seeking secession from Ghana. Following the burning of some buses at the STC terminal in Ho on Tuesday and an attack at the Aveyime and Mepe Police Read more…
Members of the Anyako Fishermen Association at Anyako in the Keta Municipality have called for a swift resolution of illegal fishing issues in the area to end the year-long suffering without work. The group said since August 2019, some fishers were rendered jobless following a directive from the Read more…
The National Commission on Small Arms and Light Weapons has condemned the recent activities of some separatist groups seeking independence from the country. In a statement signed by the Commission’s Board Chairman, Prof Paul Frimpong-Manso said the groups, which purport to be fighting for the independence of Western Togoland, should Read more…
Senior High Schools (SHSs) in the Sunyani Municipality have scaled up measures to stem the spread of the Covid-19 as schools re-open on October 5, this year. School authorities told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview that various health and safety protocols had been put in Read more…
MP for North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has called on President Akufo-Addo to address the recent attacks in parts of the Volta by secessionist groups. The MP says the issue is a national problem that requires the President’s urgent attention in order to prevent further degeneration. “We continue to Read more…
People should immediately stop using the Hictkon smart plug with dual USB ports, the watchdog warns. Source: BBC
Both Trump and Biden want to take away the US law that protects platforms from being liable for what their users post. Source: BBC
The rise of the US tech company has been shadowed by concerns about privacy and surveillance. Source: BBC
The markets are closed and the verdicts are in: investors liked what they saw in Palantir and Asana . The two companies, which debuted this morning in dual (and duel) direct listings, continued to prove that enterprise tech companies without the brand recognition of Spotify (which conducted its own direct Read more…
It’s a big day for Asana, the work management tool that debuted on the NYSE this morning in a direct listing. Founded back in 2009 by Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein, the company has assiduously grown over the years, taking in about $213 million in venture capital the past decade Read more…
This year, Google’s annual hardware event consisted of a brisk 30 minutes of pre-recorded promotional videos, but the company managed to pack a number of new product announcements into that time. To make things easy for you, here’s a quick rundown of everything that Google announced, including the Google Pixel Read more…
The Pixel 5 loses several headline features of last year’s flagship phone to hit a lower price tag. Source: BBC