TECHNOLOGY

More than a quarter of the world’s population now uses Facebook every month, the social network says. “As of this morning, the Facebook community is now officially two billion people,” founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg posted. The milestone comes just 13 years after the network was founded by Mr Zuckerberg when he was at Harvard. He famously dropped out ...

Google has been fined 2.42bn euros ($2.7bn; £2.1bn) by the European Commission after it ruled the company had abused its power by promoting its own shopping comparison service at the top of search results. The amount is the regulator’s largest penalty to date against a company accused of distorting the market. The ruling also orders Google to end its anti-competitive ...

Ivy Barley, a student of KNUST has won $7500 in the TEN Ghana Elevator Pitch Contest after convincing the members of the jury with her business idea. The TEN Ghana Elevator Pitch is an initiative by TEN Ghana to reward young entrepreneurs who have the best business ideas and wish to penetrate the Ghanaian market. Founder and CEO of the ...

The increasing levels of e-commerce and cross border trade among countries highlight the crucial need for data-driven decision making in border management, Mrs. Aba Lokko, Communications Manager of GCNet, has said. Mrs. Lokko shared this thought on big data and border management after her participation in the 2017 World Customs Organisation (WCO) IT Conference and Exhibition held in Tbilisi, Georgia. ...

Tweet Google has been fined 2.42bn euros ($2.7bn; £2.1bn) by the European Commission after it ruled the company had abused its power by promoting its own shopping comparison service at the top of search results. The amount is the regulator’s largest penalty to date against a company accused of distorting the market. The ruling also orders Google to end its ...

Some final and third year Computer Science Students of the Ho Technical University have paid an educational visit to the Ghana Community Network Services Limited (GCNet) which has over the past 15 years pioneered Single Window operations in the country. The visit by the 40-member student group was to enhance their knowledge in computer applications engineering as part of the ...

Russia’s FSB security agency has said the Telegram mobile messaging app was used by a suicide bomber who killed 15 people in St Petersburg in April. Authorities have already threatened to block the app, founded by Russian businessman Pavel Durov, for refusing to sign up to new data laws. Mr Durov has refused to let regulators access encrypted messages on ...

In January 1842, Charles Dickens arrived on American shores for the first time. He was greeted like a rock star in Boston, Massachusetts, but the great novelist was a man with a cause: he wanted to put an end to cheap, sloppy pirated copies of his work in the US. They circulated with impunity because the United States granted no ...

Google’s decision to stop scanning Gmail users’ emails in order to target them with personalised adverts has been given a qualified welcome by privacy campaigners. The tech firm revealed the change in a blog at the end of last week. Google promised to make the move before the year’s end to bring the consumer version of Gmail in line with ...

Anonymous, the global hacking collective, believes that alien life exists—and it thinks that NASA is about to confirm it. The shadowy group made the claim in a 12-and-a-half-minute video published on an unofficial YouTube channel on Tuesday. The video centers around recent findings by the American space organization, including the discovery of 219 new planet candidates—10 of which present similar ...