Big Tech threatened: What Google’s antitrust trial in the US means for search engine dependents
Google’s search engine earned its huge market share by almost instantaneously presenting people with helpful information culled from the billions of websites that have been indexed since former Stanford University graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed the technology during the late 1990s.
Kenya’s President Ruto pitches for investment in Africa as part of long term climate change solutions
Invest Africa is a leading pan-African business platform that promotes trade and investment across the continent. With over to years’ experience, Invest Africa says its network is made up of more than 400 global organisations, private investors, fund managers, family offices, policy makers and entrepreneurs. Together they share a desire to build opportunity across the African continent.
Trump rails against New York attorney general as he’s accused of pocketing $100m via fraud
Trump’s election campaign used the start of the trial for fundraising, saying he was defending his family and reputation from New York Democrats it called “corrupt tyrants.” The case concerns accusations by the attorney general that Trump inflated his assets and his own net worth from 2011 to 2021 to obtain favourable bank loans and lower insurance premiums.
How Nairobi’s upmarket Kilimani estate became world’s alluring host of contraband ‘gold embassies’
Police have red-flagged Kilimani and its environs as a sprawling crime scene that also hosts State House and the city’s “honourable” police stations – Kilimani, Kileleshwa, Muthangari and Upper Hill – where white collar criminals, international drug traffickers and gold smugglers prefer to be detained during arrest.
Kenya hospital first in Africa to join global alliance against heart and kidney diseases
The hospital says it has set its focus on the following centres of excellence: cardiovascular, cancer and transplant, maternal and child-health, and ambulatory surgical care. This is achieved through a multi-disciplinary approach using various specialists.
Drug maker Johnson & Johnson hit by 11,000 more lawsuits linking baby powder to cancer
That price is a little over three times the $26 per dose the federal government paid for the last updated booster, which was exclusively distributed by the government. The price hike marks the vaccine’s move from federal distribution to the commercial market. Moderna and rival manufacturer Pfizer raised the US list price of their Covid-19 vaccines by roughly 400 per cent. (Moderna’s is listed at $128 and Pfizer’s is $115).
Big Tech social media content: US Supreme Court has last say on Texas, Florida censorship laws
Supporters of the Florida and Texas laws “argue that the measures are needed to combat what they called Silicon Valley censorship,” including on issues like Covid-19 and claiming election fraud, the Times also reported.
Tanzania in Critical Minerals Stage after signing $1 billion mining deals with Australia, US
The US announced plans last March to boost bilateral trade and investment with Tanzania, recently signing a $500 million trade deal to enable the export of goods and services in infrastructure, energy security and power generation, among other strategic sectors.
Kenya walks tightrope as finance minister allays fears over foreign debts, shrinking hard currency reserves
Njuguna Ndung’u was responding to a research note by US investment bank JPMorgan which said on Tuesday that the East African nation was “walking a tightrope” to avoid a crisis due to a maturing dollar bond and persistent currency weakness.
Appeals court rejects Trump’s push to delay trial in wake of fraud ruling that threatens his business
Trump has denied wrongdoing, arguing that some of his assets are worth far more than what’s listed on annual financial statements that Engoron said he used to secure loans and make deals. Trump has argued that the statements have disclaimers that absolve him of liability. His lawyers have said they would appeal.
