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How SoftBanks Vision Fund turned losses into gold this summer

SoftBank leads 150M round for Fireworks shoppable video

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

Microsoft launches Edge Zones for Azure

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

Microsoft acquires 5G specialist Affirmed Networks

5G needs a new mindset towards Internet rules telcos warn

Chinas Jaka Robotics fueled by Saudi Arabias Prosperity7 in global push

Cuckoo Internet closes Seed funding to disrupt UK broadband market

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

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

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

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

Indias Awfis raises 30M to grow its coworking spaces business

Kenyan telco Safaricoms Alpha incubator faces uncertain future

With a 10 million round Nigerias Paga plans global expansion

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

SoftBanks Vision Fund is preparing to invest 1 billion in Grab

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

India grants approval for 5G trials avoids Chinese firms

Startups Weekly: SoftBanks second act

WhatsApp brings its Business API to the cloud to speed adoption

Softbank leads a 120 million round for insurance startup Lemonade

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

SimbaPay launches Kenya to China payment service via WeChat

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

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

Behavioral cybersecurity platform CybSafe raises 28M Series B led by Evolution Equity Partners

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

Visa and Kenyas Safaricom partner on MPesa payments and tech

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

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

Africa Roundup: Visa connects to MPesa Flutterwave enters ecommerce

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

Lessons from MPesa for Africas new VCrich fintech startups

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

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

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

Twitter leads call for EU lawmakers to think beyond big tech

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

Africa Roundup: Africas tech ecosystem responds to COVID19

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

China Roundup: A blow to USlisted Chinese firms and TikToks new global face

Peak raises 75M for a platform that helps nontech companies build AI applications

MoEngage lands 25M for its mobilefirst customer engagement platform

SoftBank bets big on a digital Ellis Island

SoftBankbacked Indian startup Oyo to cut 5000 jobs globally

Kenya turns to MPesa mobilemoney to stem the spread of COVID19

UK to toughen telecoms security controls to shrink 5G risks

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