Tigo Digital Changemakers Competition celebrates 5yrs

Telecom operator, Tigo is marking the 5th anniversary of its Tigo Digital Changemakers Competition and has committed to reinvesting an additional GHS135,000 to advance the impact of leading social entrepreneurs in the programme. Tigo disclosed...

Innovate Ghana: 2017 high school challenge awards today

The 5th edition of the annual Innovate Ghana Design Challenge Awards is happening this Friday, August 11, 2017 at the International House Office of the University of Ghana, Legon. This year’s challenge focuses on solving...

Tigo provides connectivity for Accra, K’si biz districts

Telecom operator, Tigo, has successfully completed point-to-multipoint base stations in four major business districts across Ghana. Businesses and residents within the Accra, Kumasi, Takoradi and Sunyani central business districts now have access to affordable, reliable...

Airtel Ghana uses Social Media to engage customers

Airtel Ghana continues to demonstrate leadership and innovation in the use of Social Media to engage with customers and relevant stakeholders. At the Ghana ICT and Telecom Awards (GITTA) held recently, the Smartphone Network was...

Google fires diversity memo author

A Google employee who wrote a controversial memo about workplace diversity has been fired, the BBC can confirm. The controversial memo broke the firm’s code of conduct, Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichai said on Monday...

Google employee anti-diversity memo causes row

A Google employee's opinion criticising the firm's diversity initiatives is causing a furore at the firm. In an internal memo, a male software engineer argued the lack of women in top tech jobs was due...

Apple defends complying with China over VPNs

Apple boss Tim Cook has defended his company’s decision to comply with the Chinese government’s demand it remove VPN software from the App Store. Virtual Private Networks are often used to skirt censorship and surveillance...

Facebook shuts down robots after they speak new language

Facebook has shut down two artificial intelligences that appeared to be chatting to each other in a strange language only they understood. The two chatbots came to create their own changes to English that made...

Apple ‘pulls 60 VPNs from China App Store’

The creators of several Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) have criticised Apple's decision to remove their products from its App Store in China. The BBC understands that as many as 60 VPNs were pulled over the...

Microsoft signals end of Paint program

Microsoft's graphics program Paint has been included in a list of Windows 10 features that will be either removed or no longer developed. Paint has been part of the Windows operating system since its release...