Perishable goods such as fruits, meats, dairy, and pharmaceuticals need special care during storage and transportation to preserve their wholesomeness and protect consumers’ health. Technologies and expertise for the safe movement of these products are therefore critical in the agribusiness value chain, especially in the post-production processes. With Italy being Read more
Business Executive Prince Charles Dedjoe, accused of spousal murder, has been granted bail by an Accra High Court, General Jurisdiction Division. Dedjoe was granted bail in the sum of ¢200,000 with two sureties by the Court, presided over by Mr Justice Ernest Yao Gaewu, last Friday, the Ghana News Agency Read more
All-time soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo’s gesture at a Euro 2020 press conference wiped $4 billion off Coca-Cola’s market value on Monday. Ronaldo, sat beside Portugal manager Fernando Santos ahead of his team’s match against Hungary, irritably set aside two bottles of the soda drink placed before him. He then picked Read more
A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify, A never-dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky. That’s the lyrics of the popular hymn by Charles Wesley. This charge and the directive by the Saviour Jesus Christ in Mark 16:15 – “And He said to them, Read more
Berlin-based cannabis and digital health start-up Sanity Group has closed a $44.2M Series A financing round led by Swiss VC Redalpine along with US-based Navy Capital and SOJE Capital. GMPVC also participated in the round. This appears to be the largest round of cannabis funding in Europe to date and Read more
Former WBO super battamweight champion Isaac Dogboe will take another step towards his push for a second world title on Saturday when he takes on Adam Lopez at the Virgin Kotel in Las Vegas. Dogboe made a succesful return in July 2020 after his back to back defeats against Emmanuel Read more
In March, Spotify announced it was acquiring the company behind the sports-focused audio app Locker Room to help speed its entry into the live audio market. Today, the company is making good on that deal with the launch of Spotify Greenroom, a new mobile app that allows Spotify users worldwide Read more
Apple’s recent Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote was packed with new features for iPhones, Macs and iPads — and like it has done pretty consistently since the debut of its original ‘Health’ app in 2014, those included updates focused on personal health and wellness. Often, it’s impossible to assess the Read more
An Accra High Court has thrown out an interim injunction filed by Prince Charles Dedjoe, a business executive, against the burial of his late wife, Lilian Dedjoe. The court, in its ruling, noted that the father of the deceased and head of the family had the right to bury the Read more
The recommendation comes from a group set up by government to boost take-up of the service. Source: BBC
Kumawood actor, Agya Manu has died after battling an undisclosed illness. Confirming the death, actress Akyere Bruwaa posted a condolence message on her verified Instagram page. The Kumawood actress posted a short scene from a movie in which she starred alongside her deceased colleague. View this post on Instagram A Read more
Nearly seven years after 43 students went missing in Mexico’s Guerrero state, the remains of a third victim have been identified beyond doubt, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Using DNA testing, forensic doctors at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, identified a lumbar vertebra as belonging to Jhosivani Guerrero, said Omar Gomez Read more
With many consumers making the switch to online shopping in the last year due to Covid-19 and largely staying active on those platforms even after physical shops and the freedom to move about them have been restored, companies that are enabling those services are continuing to see a lot of Read more
Yet another SaaS startup, which began its journey in India, has attained the much coveted unicorn status. BrowserStack, a startup that operates a giant software testing platform, said on Wednesday it has raised $200 million in a new financing round that valued the 10-year-old firm at $4 billion. BOND led the Read more
For the past 18 months, employees have enjoyed increased flexibility, and ultimately a better work-life balance, as a result of the mass shift to remote working necessitated by the pandemic. Most don’t want this arrangement, which brought an end to extensive commutes and superfluous meetings, to end: Buffer’s 2021 State Read more
Small businesses have traditionally been underserved when it comes to IT — they are too big and have too many requirements that can’t be met by consumer products, yet are much too small to afford, implement or thoroughly need apps and other IT build for larger enterprises. But when it Read more
New York-based IAB Tech Labs, a standards body for the digital advertising industry, is being taken to court in Germany by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) in a piece of privacy litigation that’s targeted at the high speed online ad auction process known as real-time bidding (RTB). While Read more
A lot of the focus in recruitment these days has been on better technology to connect people to job opportunities at new organizations, but that also leaves a wide opening to focus on one of the other big funnels for finding work: internal transfers. Today, a startup that is building Read more
Companies are urged to work harder against those “profiting financially from the rape and abuse of children”. Source: BBC
Legal action filed over volume of data shared by digital advertising firms during ad space sales. Source: BBC