Apple, Google Now ‘copying’ Samsung’s Design

Samsung has long had a reputation for copying Apple’s designs for its smartphones. Apple even took Samsung to court in an epic, multiyear legal battle over designs and alleged patent violations. But now something unusual is happening in the smartphone world: Apple and Google are copying Samsung. Back in 2015, Samsung brought out the Galaxy … Read more

Uru, First Nationwide Online Taxi Launched

Uru, an online transportation service has launched its operations with a first-ever nationwide coverage in Ghana at (venue name) on Friday, April 21, 2017. Even though the service is not the first in Ghana, Uru’s operation is a full coverage in all the regions and cities in Ghana. Explaining the mode of service at the … Read more

US Navy Cracks Down On Sharing of Intimate Photographs

The US Navy has issued new rules forbidding personnel from sharing intimate photographs without consent. They ban the sharing of images when “the person depicted had a reasonable expectation of privacy” or “without legal justification or excuse”. It follows the discovery that some marines were sharing photos of women in a private Facebook group. Service … Read more

Chevron Faces Big Australia Tax Bill After Court Loss

Energy giant Chevron on Friday lost its appeal in major battle against a Aus$269-million (US$203 million) tax bill in a case that could have global implications for multinationals looking to cut their obligations. The Federal Court ruled in favour of a 2015 decision by the same court that the US giant had minimised its payments … Read more

Barbie Out of Fashion As Mattel Slumps

Barbie sales fell 13% in the first quarter, adding to a much worse-than-expected slump for Mattel, the world’s largest toy company. It was the second consecutive quarter of falling sales for the doll, which has been a key part of the firm’s product range for almost six decades. Mattel said sales dropped by 15.4% to … Read more

The End of Smartphones and TVs Is Coming

It’s no secret Mark Zuckerberg is pinning Facebook’s prospects on augmented reality — technology that overlays digital imagery onto the real world, like Snapchat’s signature camera filters. At this year’s F8 conference, taking place this week, Zuckerberg doubled down on the company’s ambitious 10-year master plan, which was first revealed in 2016. According to this … Read more

Venezuela Oil Subsidiary Gave Trump Inauguration $500,000

Citgo, the US affiliate of Venezuela’s state-run oil company, donated half a million dollars to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, documents released here show. The Houston, Texas-based Citgo is among 20 companies and individuals who made the largest donations to the committee organizing the president’s events, according to documents released by the Federal Election Commission on … Read more

Proud of Former President Rawlings Blasting Trump

Let me start by stating that I personally don’t know the former president, so this is not an article in support of a friend. I am also aware that the former president has been involved in the killing of others in his past, when he first came to power in a coup d’état. So, he … Read more

Tech Firms Urge Court To Toss Trump Travel Ban

Scores of technology firms including Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft joined a legal filing urging a judge to toss out President Donald Trump’s latest travel ban. More than 160 companies, all but a couple of which are in the technology sector, signed a “friend of the court” brief siding with opponents of Trump’s executive order … Read more

Facebook Out To Read Minds

Facebook wants to read your mind. At least, when it comes to what you’d like to say or type. The social network giant, at its annual developers conference, unveiled Wednesday projects aimed at allowing users to use their minds to type messages or their skin to hear words. “Speech is essentially a compression algorithm, and … Read more

Alphabet’s Verily To Embark On Health-Mapping Study

Alphabet’s life sciences unit Verily on Wednesday announced a study to track people for years, right down to their genetics, in a quest for insights into staying healthy. Verily Life Sciences partnered with Duke University School of Medicine and Stanford Medicine for the Project Baseline study intended to collect broad health data from approximately 10,000 … Read more

Google Doodle Pays Tribute To Ghana’s Aunty Ocloo

A late Ghanaian female entrepreneur who founded her country’s first food processing company was the subject of a Google doodle tribute on Tuesday. Esther Afua Ocloo became one of Ghana’s most successful entrepreneurs after starting her business in the 1930s with less than a dollar. Google was celebrating her life on the day she would … Read more

Baidu To Share Self-Drive Car Technology

Chinese internet giant Baidu has said it will share much of the technology it has created for its self-driving cars. The firm predicted that the move would help drive the development of autonomous vehicles. Called Apollo, the project will make a range of software, hardware and data services available to others, especially carmakers. Other firms … Read more

Google Earth Re-Invented For New Era

Google on Tuesday launched a re-imagined version of its free Earth mapping service, weaving in storytelling and artificial intelligence and freeing it from apps. “This is our gift to the world,” Google Earth director Rebecca Moore said while giving AFP an early look at the new version of the program that lets people range the … Read more

We Cannot Wait For Four Years

We cannot wait for four years – NDC The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says it cannot wait for four years to elect another president whilst President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his government wreck havoc to the country in various sectors. It observed that the country is already moving on a reverse gear and … Read more

Google Celebrates Ghanaian Woman For Pioneering Micro-Lending

A micro-lending pioneer, Esther Afua Ocloo, is being celebrated by Google on her 98th birthday. She launched her entrepreneurial career as a teenager in the 1930s on less than a dollar. She quickly became one of Ghana’s leading entrepreneurs and was an inspiration around the world. Known as “Auntie Ocloo”, Esther dedicated her life to … Read more

Amazon Aims For India As Flipkart Holds On To Market Top Spot For Now

With 100 million new internet users every year, Amazon is betting big on India, but a major new investment in homegrown rival Flipkart means the battle to dominate the fast-growing e-commerce market is set to heat up. Flipkart announced this week that top international companies including Microsoft, eBay and China’s Tencent had pledged investments totalling … Read more

Apple Granted Self-Driving Test Permit

Apple has been granted a permit to test self-driving cars on the streets of California. It has long been known that Apple is working on automotive-related projects, but the company has never publicly confirmed any details. The news was made public by California’s Department of Motor Vehicles on Friday. The agency said Apple has been … Read more

Amazon, Flipkart Battle In India For E-Commerce’s ‘last Frontier’

With 100 million new internet users every year, Amazon is betting big on India, but a major new investment in homegrown rival Flipkart means the battle to dominate the fast-growing e-commerce market is set to heat up. Flipkart announced this week that top international companies including Microsoft, eBay and China’s Tencent had pledged investments totalling … Read more

‘Skinny Bundles’ Step Up Challenge To US Big Cable

For years, US cable operators got rich by offering fat “bundles” of hundreds of channels and raising prices regularly for television consumers. Now the “skinny bundle” is disrupting that model with internet-delivered packages offering live and on-demand programs. Google’s YouTube TV is the latest to enter this market with its bundle of around 40 channels … Read more