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Vision Fund startups Fanatics and Coupang unite to sell US sports merch in Korea

SoftBank bets big on a digital Ellis Island

Softbank leads a 120 million round for insurance startup Lemonade

Microsoft acquires 5G specialist Affirmed Networks

Lessons from MPesa for Africas new VCrich fintech startups

Visa and Kenyas Safaricom partner on MPesa payments and tech

Africa turns to mobile payments as a tool to curb COVID19

H Twenty Capital aims to be goto fund for preseed investments in Latin America

EduMe raises 20M to scale its corporate learning platform targeting gig workers and other deskless employees

Giftgiving mobile app Goody nabs more capital to scale in time for the holidays

Internet connectivity projects unite as Alphabet spinout Loon grabs 125M from SoftBanks HAPSMobile

Karius raises 165 million for its liquid biopsy technology identifying diseases in a drop of blood

SimbaPay launches Kenya to China payment service via WeChat

Untitled Ventures joins the scramble for Russian Eastern European startups with a 118M warchest

SirionLabs raises 44M to scale its contract management software

How SoftBanks Vision Fund turned losses into gold this summer

India grants approval for 5G trials avoids Chinese firms

SoftBank expects 24 billion in losses from Vision Fund WeWork and OneWeb investments

Lowcode integration platform Digibee raises 25M Series A

SoftBank leads 150M round for Fireworks shoppable video

SoftBank reportedly preps a package to take control of WeWork parent company

Indias Awfis raises 30M to grow its coworking spaces business

Chinas Jaka Robotics fueled by Saudi Arabias Prosperity7 in global push

Forto raises 240M in funding round led by Softbank taking its valuation to 12Bn

Spirable refuels with 74M to serve more personalized video ads in the US

SoftBanks 100 million diversity and inclusion fund makes its first bet in health Vitable Health

Africa Roundup: Africas tech ecosystem responds to COVID19

WhatsApp brings its Business API to the cloud to speed adoption

Kenya turns to its mobilemoney dominance to stem the spread of COVID19

Startups Weekly: SoftBanks second act

Mudafy raises 10M in Founders Fundled Series A to fix LatAms broken real estate process

SoftBankbacked Indian startup Oyo to cut 5000 jobs globally

Loon and SoftBanks HAPSMobile team with Airbus China Telecom and more on stratospheric cell networks

Fintech in Latin America continues to draw big dollars as Softbank invests 231 million in Creditas

Global Armodafinil Market Share competitor Strategy and Future Forecast to 2024

Africa Roundup: Visa connects to MPesa Flutterwave enters ecommerce

Microsoft launches Edge Zones for Azure

Flutterwave and Visa launch African consumer payment service GetBarter

Uh oh European carriers are trying to get into personalized ad targeting

Paack pulls in a 225M Series D led by SoftBank to scale its Ecommerce delivery platform

Vodafone confirms merger talks with Three UK in a no cash deal to scale up in 5G

Mortgage is suddenly sexy as SoftBank pumps 500M in Bettercom at 6B valuation

US giants top tech industrys 100M a year lobbying blitz in EU

Twitter leads call for EU lawmakers to think beyond big tech

Cuckoo Internet closes Seed funding to disrupt UK broadband market

UK to toughen telecoms security controls to shrink 5G risks

MoEngage lands 25M for its mobilefirst customer engagement platform

CommerceIQ gets its horn as capital continues to flow into ecommerce infrastructure startups

Safaricom rolls out Bonga social networking platform to augment MPesa

Kenya turns to MPesa mobilemoney to stem the spread of COVID19