January 2010

A national secretariat to provide administrative and technical support to the National Committee on Informal Economy (NCIE) was inaugurated in Accra on Tuesday. The secretariat, which is located at the Ministry of Employment and Social…

A final year student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Miss Rose Ohene Asante, has been remanded to re-appear before a Takoradi district magistrate court for fraud. Her plea was not taken and would…

China's ZTE said it won a contract worth $378 million to supply telecoms equipment and services to South African mobile operator Cell C (Pty) Ltd. In its latest overseas deal, ZTE will provide GSM systems and services to Cell C, ZTE said…

The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday the global economy is bouncing back better than expected after two years of crisis but warned stimulus was still needed to support the recovery. The IMF projected global growth of 3.9 percent in…

College senior Alyssa Ravasio gave up MySpace on the day she got a Facebook account and never looked back. She has already lost interest in Twitter. But how does Facebook know it can keep her loyalty? The brief history of the Internet is…

Toyota Motor Corp said it will suspend sales in North America of eight models involved in recall, a move that could throw the timing of its earnings recovery into doubt and one that pushed its shares 2 percent lower. Toyota also said it…

Oregon voters approved two measures raising taxes on businesses and the wealthy Tuesday, averting budget cuts legislators said would have meant larger classes in the schools and less help for the poor and the elderly. Both Measure 66,…

President Barack Obama will try to pivot past rocky times for the nation and himself Wednesday night in his first State of the Union address, offering a skeptical public repackaged plans to energize the economy, stem a tide of red ink and…

The SG-SSB has become the first universal bank in Ghana to install the globally certified banking solution known as Go-live Delta-Bank. The product is widely used in the banking sector in French speaking Africa. The solution developed by…

The Takoradi Valued Added Tax (VAT) office has begun a three-day distress action on 13 businesses that owe GH¢352,801.25. Mr Peter Sagpio, Head of the In-Door Operations and Client Service of the Takoradi VAT office, said this in an…