TECHNOLOGY

The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications has said mobile network operators paid a total of GH¢1.94 billion in taxes to the state and made capital expenditure of over GH¢276 million last year. This makes the mobile telecons industry one of the most important contributors to the public purse as well as being a key instigator of economic growth. The Chamber’s CEO, ...

Apple is formalizing its on-demand video service. The global giant unveiled Apple TV+ and a new video streaming service at its Cupertino headquarters in California on Monday. The products will launch this fall in over 100 countries. The service will only offer original content with new features every month. The service will be ad-free and Apple did not announce pricing. ...

Online giant Google has written to Ghana over last Friday’s glitch which saw the Cedi to dollar rate weighing as much as four times the accurate figure. Google currency last Friday March 15,2019 displayed a dollar was about GHC22 when the actual rate was around GHC5.8 to the dollar. In a statement to the Finance minister, google said: ‘We always ...

Boeing has told airlines it expects to have new software for its 737 Max plane ready by the end of the month. The plane has been grounded following the Ethiopian Airlines aircraft crash earlier this month. Documents seen by the BBC confirm that the software update will limit the operation of the controversial MCAS system. That was the same system ...

MTN, Ghana’s leading telecommunications service provider, has launched its 4G+ service to provide faster data speeds with widest coverage for its customers. The 4G+ service runs on 4G LTE Advanced technology using the combination of the 800MHz and 2600MHz for carrier aggregation which is an enhancement on the 4G LTE experience. This provides more capacity and enhanced data speed of ...

An unemployed Ghanaian nurse has developed a business directory app – MAGNIFY – aimed at bridging the gap between businesses and potential clients. Twenty-seven-year-old Joseph Arkoh Koranteng is optimistic the app will provide businesses the mileage to interface and connect with potential clients to deliver goods and services while giving users the chance to generate a residual income. MAGNIFY App ...

A payment processing firm that used to be owned by Royal Bank of Scotland has been sold in a deal worth $43bn (£32bn). WorldPay has been bought by Florida-based Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) for $35bn in cash and shares, plus WorldPay’s debt. FIS sells payment services and also software for the finance industry. WorldPay was sold by RBS in ...

MySpace, one of the first online social networks, has apologised after a server migration caused a huge loss of data. A message on its website says that “any photos, videos and audio files” uploaded more than three years ago may no longer be available. There had been complaints going back several months that links to music were no longer working. ...

UK based start-up OneWeb has secured $1.25bn (£940m) in new funding enabling it to speed up its plans to launch a global high-speed broadband network. The firm said the money meant its 2021 launch was now “inevitable”. The funding comes after the company successfully launched its first satellites for the service last month. The firm is competing with several rivals, ...

Facebook says it has deleted more than 1.5 million copies of the video of the mosque attacks in New Zealand in the first day after the incident. In a tweet, it said that 1.2 million of those copies were blocked while they were being uploaded. Fifty people died and dozens were injured in Friday’s twin shootings. Facebook said it would ...