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Back in 2007, a 19-year-old Australian student named Melanie Perkins noticed something: design was too complicated. At the time, if you wanted to create a poster, a flyer, or even a simple presentation, you had to spend hours learning tools like Photoshop. And for many, it felt overwhelming. Melanie thought — What if design could be as simple as dragging and dropping? Together with Cliff Obrecht (her co-founder and now husband), they started with a small idea called Fusion Books, a tool to help schools design yearbooks easily. It worked so well that teachers and students loved it. That little…

The Thai government is launching a new initiative called “Touristdigipay” on Aug.18, to boost its tourism sector. The scheme allows foreign tourists to convert their cryptocurrencies into Thai Baht to use for payments. The program is a direct response to a decline in tourism, particularly from China. To participate, visitors must open an account with a digital asset business and an e-money provider, both of which are regulated by the SEC and the Bank of Thailand (BOT). The scheme will operate within a regulatory sandbox to ensure proper oversight and prevent the direct use of crypto as payment. Participants must…

Metaplanet Inc. (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 3350) announced the purchase of an additional 775 bitcoin at an average price of ¥17,720,023 per coin (totaling ¥13.733 billion), bringing its cumulative holdings to 18,888 bitcoin at an overall average cost of ¥15,041,118 (aggregate ¥284.097 billion). The company also reported its key performance indicators for its Bitcoin Treasury Operations: BTC Yield of 41.7% (July–September 2024), 309.8% (October–December 2024), 95.6% (January–March 2025), 129.4% (April–June 2025) and 29.3% (July 1–August 18 2025), with BTC Gain and BTC ¥ Gain metrics reflecting accretive performance exclusive of dilution https://lovinghananews.com/trump-tariffs-and-tornado-cash/ Source:news.bitcoin.com

Last week, Donald Trump reminded traders that he can still move markets with a tweet, a tariff, or a firing. Crypto whipsawed on his words and actions. This editorial is from last week’s edition of the Week in Review newsletter. Subscribe to the weekly newsletter to get the editorial the second it’s finished. Trump as Market Catalyst The bitcoin lows around $116,000 mentioned in the newsletter two weeks ago did, in fact, break down. The price dipped to $112K before rebounding past $116K to $117K. At the time of writing it is once again drifting toward $116K, but unlike two…

The World Bank, much like the IMF, has called on Ghana to reduce the Bank of Ghana’s footprint in the FX market and allow more exchange rate flexibility. But such prescriptions, while neat in theory, ignore Ghana’s lived context and risk undoing the very stability they claim to promote. Let’s be clear: Ghana’s recent progress is not accidental. It is the outcome of deliberate, legally mandated, and carefully sequenced policy actions. Under the Bank of Ghana Act, the central bank is charged with stabilising the currency, managing reserves, and regulating the FX market. These are not indulgences, they are constitutional…

In the late 1990s, a group of ambitious entrepreneurs came together to build PayPal, an online payment system that was later acquired by eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. But that was just the beginning. The early employees and founders of PayPal, later known as the “PayPal Mafia,” went on to shape Silicon Valley and the broader tech industry. Some names you’ll know: – Elon Musk went on to build Tesla and SpaceX. – Peter Thiel – co-founded Palantir and became Facebook’s first outside investor. – Reid Hoffman founded LinkedIn. – Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim co-founded YouTube.…

Flights to resume this evening with gradual ramp up over coming days MONTRÉAL, August 17, 2025 – Air Canada said it plans to resume flights today after the Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) acted on a directive from The Honourable Patty Hajdu, the Federal Minister of Jobs and Families, referring the airline’s contract negotiations with the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) to final binding interest arbitration. The directive, under section 107 of the Canada Labour Code, and the CIRB’s order, ends the strike at Air Canada that resulted in the suspension of more than 700 flights. The CIRB has…

Air Canada said it would resume flights Sunday after a government directive to end a flight attendants’ strike. The Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) “has directed Air Canada to resume airline operations and for all Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge flight attendants to resume their duties” by 2 p.m. ET, the airline said in a statement. The directive came after Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu moved to impose binding arbitration Saturday, extending the existing contract until a new agreement is reached. More than 10,000 flight attendants walked off the job over pay and scheduling disputes after months of negotiations over…

East Legon as you know it was made up of Ga villages like Shiashie, Okponglo, Bawaleshie, Abotsiman, Mempehuasem, Otinshie etc. Government acquired an area and designed a layout, called it Ambassadorial Enclave and attempted to lease them out to the growing Diplomatic community. They rejected it, of course it was too far from “civilization”. Having completed the acquisition and layout already, govt had no option than to lease them out to interested members of the general public. Mostly, civil and public servants acquired them for a few reasons. 1. The layout had not been implemented on the ground, as in,…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Russia’s refusal to agree to a ceasefire is complicating efforts to end the war. “We see that Russia rebuffs numerous calls for a ceasefire and has not yet determined when it will stop the killing. This complicates the situation,” he said in a statement on X. On Monday, the Ukrainian leader will travel to Washington DC, where US President Donald Trump has said he will urge Zelensky to agree to a peace deal. Trump has said he wants to bypass a ceasefire in Ukraine to move directly to a permanent peace agreement after…