TECHNOLOGY

President Donald Trump has told US firms they have 45 days to stop doing business with TikTok and WeChat, claiming the Chinese apps are a threat to national security. Mr Trump signed two executive orders targeting two of China’s biggest apps. It is a major escalation in Washington’s stand-off with Beijing over its power in global technology. The announcement comes ...

Facebook and Twitter have penalised Donald Trump and his campaign for posts in which the president claimed children were “almost immune” to coronavirus. Facebook deleted the post – a clip from an interview Mr Trump gave to Fox News – saying it contained “harmful Covid misinformation”. Twitter followed by saying it had frozen a Trump campaign account until a tweet ...

Six people who allegedly hacked into a bank and attempted to transfer GH¢46, 129,473 to eight individuals in different banks have been arrested by the police. They are Hudu Abdul Mumuni, Emmanuel Adams, Moro Issah, Agbenu Fefous Chrissy, Sam Acquah, a former banker and owner of Adom Sika Savings and Loans Limited and James Taylor, a web developer. Two others, ...

The Bank of Ghana (BOG) has granted one of the country’s leading FinTech companies, IT Consortium Limited (ITC), an enhanced Payment Service Provider (PSP) license. The acquisition of the license, which is the highest license within the PSP category, follows the passage of the Payment Systems and Services Act, 2019 (Act 987) which creates an enabling regulatory and supervisory framework ...

Tekashi 6ix9ine’s Instagram page will stay up and running despite renewed uproar over his criminal record — because the platform feels he hasn’t violated their rules. Here’s the deal … 6ix9ine ran into some legal trouble even before he hit it big. When he was younger — age 18 — he pled guilty to one count of Use of a ...

MainOne has commenced the construction of its MDXi data center in Appolonia City as part of its regional expansion plans. The new Tier III facility in Appolonia Industrial Park is expected to be ready for service by the end of March 2021. From Appolonia City, MainOne, West Africa’s premier connectivity and data center solution provider, will give access connectivity options ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted an unprecedented surge in eCommerce transactions, with more and more consumers choosing to shop online especially as their favorite retailers have had to temporarily close their physical stores. In addition, people prefer staying at home and avoid contact with potential contagions outside. Brick-and-mortar retailers are likely to follow latest trends by bolstering their online presence ...

(Appreciating the World’s and Ghana’s ICT Trail Blazers in a COVID 19 Pandemic World and Making a Case for Indigenous participation in the Internet & Mobile telephony sector in Ghana) By Ato Sarpong Preamble It is estimated that some 4.2billion people [or 56%] of the world’s population, in the last few months, have experienced some sort of lockdown necessitated by ...

Sandwich students from all campuses of Valley View University say they are stranded and helpless over the online learning platform. The students according to them earlier kicked against the virtual learning considering the network challenges in most parts of Ghana but the University turned death ears to their concerns and went ahead to force them to pay fees not less ...

Herman Chinery-Hesse, the CEO of SoftTribe, has stated that God did not create man for man to toil before making ends meet but rather man was created to enjoy life to the fullest. According to Chinery-Hesse, the introduction of the 5G system is to make man work easier and faster for man to be able to enjoy life and not ...