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TechCabal Lessons from Copenhagen for Africa’s founders and investors

The TechBBQ event in Copenhagen, Denmark, set the stage for important conversations in the country's tech ecosystem. Africa can le...

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TechCrunch More Americans oppose police license plate cameras than support them: survey

The backlash against license plate readers comes amid a wave of police abuses of surveillance cameras.

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TechCrunch Friend-focused photo-sharing app Retro snags $21M

Retro, a friend-focused photo-sharing app built by former Instagram employees, has raised more than $21 million in Series A fundin...

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TechCrunch Apple TV is raising its subscription prices again

Now, Apple TV subscriptions will cost $14.99 per month, up from its previous price of $12.99 per month.

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TechCrunch a16z creates a $1.1B ‘Machine Age’ fund to ‘accelerate the physical buildout of AI’

The firm, known for its focus on software, is going to start throwing more money at the hardware behind AI.

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TechCrunch Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk label

A federal judge ruled the Trump administration illegally labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk, handing the AI company a victory a...

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TechCrunch Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India

Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role.

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TechCabal Nigeria picks French, Israeli firms to build new communications satellites

French aerospace company Thales Alenia Space and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) have been selected to build Nigeria’s next comm...

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TechCabal She learned finance on Wall Street. Now she is changing how Africa gets funded.

Grace Legodi is using her Wall Street experience to help fund early-stage businesses building Southern Africa’s green economy.

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TechCrunch As electric two-wheelers gain a foothold, Belgian startup Any bets on cargo space

Launched by Belgian startup Any, LUV1 is a modular electric motorcycle with 120 liters of cargo space that can be used to carry ba...

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TechCabal The Ugandan founders who don’t want farmers waiting for rain

The duo founded Drought Guard Africa in 2023, which designs and installs climate-smart irrigation, clean water, and solar energy s...

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TechCabal From war zones to Kenya’s markets: How an ex-soldier built a $1bn lender

How a former British Army officer arrived in Kenya with little experience in finance and built a lender that has disbursed more th...

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TechCabal Nomba, Synafare target 300 Nigerian businesses with $1.4 million solar financing

Nomba and Synafare have announced a ₦2 billion ($1.4 million) lending commitment to finance solar energy systems for businesses in...

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TechCabal What ₦100,000 in Nigeria’s biggest bank stocks became in 8 months

Nigerians are putting more of their hard-earned money into the stock market than ever before. But what has that money actually ear...

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – OPay to NGX?

In today's edition: Quizzes || OPay reportedly eyes the NGX || Coronation sells part of its SPAR stake || Who secured the bag? 💰

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TechCrunch AI, athletes, and Keith Rabois: StrictlyVC is back in New York on September 10

A boutique StrictlyVC evening returns to New York's West Village on September 10 with Keith Rabois, Craig Shapiro, Jason Levien, T...

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TechCrunch Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, pre...

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TechCrunch Rivian’s CFO is leaving the company

Claire McDonough is stepping down on October 30 to pursue a new opportunity, the company said in a filing on Thursday.

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TechCrunch Bluesky adds an ‘algorithmic opt-out’ feature for those who don’t want to go viral

Sometimes people just want to post to their followers, Bluesky says.

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TechCrunch Buried in Meta’s $18B settlement is a legal pass on kids’ data

Meta’s settlement with 29 states allows it to retain certain data from children under 13 to train and test age-detection models, h...

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TechCrunch YouTube now lets creators tag Amazon products and earn commissions from purchases

The update turns product recommendations into a more direct revenue stream for creators, and for Amazon, the move puts its massive...

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TechCrunch Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining OpenAI, is now at Google

Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI...

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TechCrunch ATF declares ‘major incident’ as ransomware gang claims hack

The ATF is the latest federal government agency in recent years to notify Congress of a "major incident" involving its cybersecuri...

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TechCrunch OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI

Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to a...

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