The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has vowed to stop at nothing until government delivers on its pledge of accountability as far as justice is concerned. According to Deputy General Secretary, Peter Otokunor, the recent spate of violence against citizens by security operatives leaves much to be desired. The party on Read more…
I’m totally excited by the NBA Playoffs Final starting on Tuesday night between the Phoenix Suns and Milwaukee Bucks though some NBA fans seem disinterested, perhaps because these two teams are not traditional NBA royalty. The Milwaukee Bucks have won it once, when they were led by Kareem Abdul Jabbar Read more…
The numbers don’t lie. According to DocSend, the average pitch deck is reviewed for just three minutes. And if you think a senior VC is studying the presentation your team crafted for months as if it were a Fabergé egg — well, you might be disappointed. Even if you are Read more…
Italy beat Spain on penalties to reach the Euro 2020 final after an enthralling semi-final at a noisy Wembley. After Alvaro Morata’s penalty was saved, Jorginho strolled up to score and set up a final with either England or Denmark in London on Sunday. Federico Chiesa looked as if he Read more…
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for July 6, 2021. We’re back after a holiday here in the United States. Not that that stopped global technology news, Read more…
The hotly-anticipated Paddington 3 will begin production next year, in the third cinematic outing for the marmalade-loving bear, its studio says. Confirmed to be going ahead in February, the film will follow on from the critically and audience-acclaimed Paddington 2, regarded by some as one of the greatest movies of all time. Paddington’s Read more…
The Aflao Circuit Court presided over by Joseph Ofosu Behome has sentenced Kwami Ayee to ten years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling a nine-year-old girl. The convict, a 25-year old Togolese gardener resident at Anlo-Afiadenyigba in the Keta Municipality defiled the victim around Klikor, in Ketu South in January Read more…
Two weeks after the 2021 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards show was held, Wendy Shay has expressed mixed feelings of disappointment and indifference about not winning an award. In an interview on Zylofon FM, Wendy said she was not hopeful of winning the ‘Afrobeats Song of the Year’ category she was nominated because Read more…
The lack of furniture continues to be a huge challenge confronting several schools in the Northern Region and the situation is more profound in schools in rural and hard-to-reach communities. One of such schools is the Holy Trinity Primary School in Lungni in the Nanumba South District of the region. Read more…
Well, that was fast. Just days after a Twitter clone from former Trump spokesperson Jason Miller launched, the new social network is already beset by problems. For one, hackers quickly leveraged Gettr’s API to scrape the email addresses of more than 85,000 of its users. Usernames, names and birthdays were Read more…
While SaaS has become the default way to deliver software in 2021, it still takes a keen eye to find the companies that will grow into successful businesses, maybe even more so with so much competition. That’s why we’re bringing together three investors to discuss what they look for when Read more…
Having a unique product used to give you at least a few months of lead time over other players, but that advantage seems to matter less and less — just think of how Twitter Spaces managed to land on Android ahead of Clubhouse. In this context, how do you stay Read more…
Yandex Self-Driving Group, a unit of Yandex, the publicly-traded Russian tech giant, has announced a partnership with food delivery service GrubHub to be its multi-year robotic delivery provider across American college campuses. Yandex hopes to reach over 250 campuses over the course of this partnership, beginning with dozens of robots Read more…
The SPAC parade continues in this shortened week with news that community social network Nextdoor will go public via a blank-check company. The unicorn will merge with Khosla Ventures Acquisition Co. II, taking itself public and raising capital at the same time. Per the former startup, the transaction with the Read more…
The US defence department is scrapping a cloud computing contract, which sparked a row between Amazon and Microsoft. Source: BBC
This Thursday and Friday, TechCrunch will host Early Stage – a virtual bootcamp for early stage founders. After the success of the spring event, on Friday, TC will feature 10 phenomenal early-stage startups to on the virtual stage. Hailing form around the States and the globe, founders will pitch on Read more…
The increasingly intense heats bearing down feverishly across the globe are accelerating the number, scale, and complexity of disasters worldwide. Just in the past few weeks, we have seen record heat in the United States Pacific Northwest that has led to hundreds of deaths — with more heat on the Read more…
Twitter today has shared a few more ideas it’s thinking about in terms of new features around conversation health and privacy. This includes a one-stop “privacy check-in” feature that would introduce Twitter’s newer conversation controls options to users, and others that would allow people to be more private on the Read more…
A larger OLED screen is the main feature, with a host of other small improvements to the device. Source: BBC
Leeds United have signed full-back Junior Firpo from Barcelona for about £13m on a four-year deal. The 24-year-old moved to the Nou Camp from Real Betis in the summer of 2019 and made 41 appearances for Barca, who have included a 20% sell on clause in the deal with Leeds. Read more…