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With drones and masks, African innovators keep COVID-hit economies afloat

Global UpfrontJul 7, 2020July 7, 20200

Thin Lei Win, Nellie Peyton, Farai Mataishe, Reuters ROME/WASHINGTON/HARARE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Ghanaian pilot Eric Acquah started a drone company in 2017 to spray

EU throws new rule book to rein in Google, other tech giants, over competition

Global UpfrontJul 1, 2020July 1, 20200

Brussels (Reuters) – Exasperated by its failure to loosen Google’s market grip, despite more than $8 billion in fines, the European Union is lining up

Facebook face Ad sales slump as Starbucks, Diageo bail; GM weighs plan

Global UpfrontJun 29, 2020June 29, 20200

(Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc. is feeling heat from more consumer companies pulling the plug on social-media spending, with Starbucks Corp. and Diageo Plc joining the

Trump deletes retweet of supporter shouting ‘white power’ after backlash

Global UpfrontJun 28, 2020June 28, 20200

“It was so profanity laced, the entire thing was offensive. Certainly, the comment about the white power was offensive. It’s indefensible. We should take it

Facebook removes 88 Trump campaign Ads for violating policy on use of hate symbol

Global UpfrontJun 19, 2020June 19, 20200

The identical ads featured an upside-down red triangle, a symbol used by the Nazi party in World War II to identify political dissidents in concentration

Joe Scarborough, shouting on air, lambasts Mark Zuckerberg for making billions by ‘promoting extremism’

Global UpfrontJun 17, 2020June 17, 20200

CNN – By David Goldman, CNN Business New York (CNN Business)Joe Scarborough has had enough of Mark Zuckerberg. In a nearly seven-minute monologue on his

Apple launches $100 million Racial Justice Initiative, promises to increase spending with Black Businesses and recruit HBCU students

Global UpfrontJun 13, 2020June 13, 20200

by Selena Hill, Black Enterprise, June 12 A number of corporations and large tech companies are standing in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in

US government spy planes monitored George Floyd protests

Global UpfrontJun 13, 2020June 13, 20200

By Pete Muntean and Gregory Wallace, CNN Washington (CNN)A small Cessna Citation jet flying straight into Washington’s highly restricted airspace would typically be met with

U.S. Navy Kicks Off Most Advanced Wargames Since 1930s on “assertive China and resurgent Russia”

Global UpfrontJun 12, 2020June 12, 20200

Facing down an assertive China and resurgent Russia, the Navy is overhauling its strategy development, education and wargaming offices. By Paul McLeary WASHINGTON: Looking

Facebook Chief, Zuckerberg, promises policy review amid criticism for not barring Trump posts

Global UpfrontJun 6, 2020June 6, 20200

In move seemingly aimed at quelling internal uproar, Facebook chief tells employees the company will look at its ‘policies allowing discussion and threats of state