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Cuckoo Internet closes Seed funding to disrupt UK broadband market

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

Kenyan telco Safaricoms Alpha incubator faces uncertain future

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

Safaricom rolls out Bonga social networking platform to augment MPesa

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

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

Kenya turns to MPesa mobilemoney to stem the spread of COVID19

With a 10 million round Nigerias Paga plans global expansion

SoftBank bets big on a digital Ellis Island

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

Indias Awfis raises 30M to grow its coworking spaces business

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

Africa Roundup: Visa connects to MPesa Flutterwave enters ecommerce

Startups Weekly: SoftBanks second act

SoftBanks Vision Fund is preparing to invest 1 billion in Grab

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

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

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

WhatsApp brings its Business API to the cloud to speed adoption

Microsoft launches Edge Zones for Azure

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

Africa turns to mobile payments as a tool to curb COVID19

Softbank leads a 120 million round for insurance startup Lemonade

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

Lessons from MPesa for Africas new VCrich fintech startups

Twitter leads call for EU lawmakers to think beyond big tech

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

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

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

SoftBankbacked Indian startup Oyo to cut 5000 jobs globally

SoftBank leads 150M round for Fireworks shoppable video

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

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

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

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

SimbaPay launches Kenya to China payment service via WeChat

5G needs a new mindset towards Internet rules telcos warn

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

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

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

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

MoEngage lands 25M for its mobilefirst customer engagement platform

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

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

Flutterwave and Visa launch African consumer payment service GetBarter

SirionLabs raises 44M to scale its contract management software

Telecom operators in India warn people of coronavirus outbreak share tips

Africa Roundup: Africas tech ecosystem responds to COVID19

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