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

SoftBankbacked Indian startup Oyo to cut 5000 jobs globally

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

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

Flutterwave and Visa launch African consumer payment service GetBarter

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

India grants approval for 5G trials avoids Chinese firms

SoftBanks Vision Fund is preparing to invest 1 billion in Grab

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

Funnel a nocode tool for marketers to organize disparate data sources raises 66M in preIPO round

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

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

UK to toughen telecoms security controls to shrink 5G risks

Ghanaian fintech Dash raises 328M seed to build connected wallets for Africans

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

Egyptian health and wellness platform Esaal raises 17M to scale across MENA

Karius raises 165 million for its liquid biopsy technology identifying diseases with a blood draw

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

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

Advocating reform activist investor Elliott Management takes a 25B stake in SoftBank

SirionLabs raises 44M to scale its contract management software

Telecom operators in India warn people of coronavirus outbreak share tips

Africa Roundup: Visa connects to MPesa Flutterwave enters ecommerce

Africa Roundup: TLcom closes 71M fund Jumo raises 55M AWS partners with Safaricom

Microsoft launches Edge Zones for Azure

China Roundup: SoftBank leads Didis 500M round and Meituan crosses 100B valuation

Lowcode integration platform Digibee raises 25M Series A

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

SoftBank leads cash infusion into AI infrastructure company Pyxis One as it starts year with new name

Losses at SoftBanks Vision Funds have consumed nearly all their historical gains

Kenya turns to MPesa mobilemoney to stem the spread of COVID19

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

SoftBank bets big on a digital Ellis Island

Startups Weekly: SoftBanks second act

Twitter leads call for EU lawmakers to think beyond big tech

SoftBankbacked construction giant Katerra said to be shutting down after raising billions

AWS partners with Kenyas Safaricom on cloud and consulting services

Egyptian fintech Paymob raises 50M led by PayPal Ventures and Kora Capital

Safaricom rolls out Bonga social networking platform to augment MPesa

Africa turns to mobile payments as a tool to curb COVID19

Africa Roundup: Africas tech ecosystem responds to COVID19

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

MoEngage lands 25M for its mobilefirst customer engagement platform

Microsoft acquires 5G specialist Affirmed Networks

How SoftBanks Vision Fund turned losses into gold this summer

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

Chinas Jaka Robotics fueled by Saudi Arabias Prosperity7 in global push

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

Kenyan telco Safaricoms Alpha incubator faces uncertain future

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