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TechCabal Onafriq tried to sell its Nigerian agent banking business before shutdown

Onafriq shut down its agent banking business in Nigeria in October, but months before announcing the closure, it had been negotiat...

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TechCabal How Five35 Ventures made 3.5 times its investment on Complete Farmer

Five35 says selling its stake in Complete Farmer returned 3.5 times its money, an internal rate of return of 38% over four years.

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TechCrunch Amazon to fund 12 small nuclear reactors at former Indiana coal plant

Amazon and X-energy have inked another deal to deploy nuclear power to the grid. This one will generate nearly 1 gigawatt of elect...

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TechCabal Why cheaper fibre fees fail to spark Nigerian infrastructure investment

Nigeria’s fibre deployment figures show why lower Right of Way fees alone may not attract investment or close the country’s connec...

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TechCabal The Next Wave: Are layoffs good for AI’s business?

Cet article est aussi disponible en français First published on October 18, 2026 Microsoft ADC offices at Dunhill Towers in Nairob...

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TechCrunch Apple updates guidelines to ban nudify apps masquerading as regular apps to pass review

The company updated its guidelines with strong language around AI and user-generated content, and how app developers should includ...

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TechCrunch Musk pledges to give ‘every kid in America’ one of his SpaceX shares

Musk's post came just a few hours after Anthropic promised to put 5% of its shares into a new "public benefit fund," which it inte...

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TechCabal Nigeria’s financial inclusion is growing, but access to credit still lags

For lenders, they must determine whether a borrower earns enough to repay, whether that income can be verified, what other financi...

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – A bigger piece of Cairo

In today's edition: Unbranded ATMs in SA || Banque du Caire could raise IPO stake to 45% || Vodacom keeps Safaricom stake—for now...

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TechCrunch Khosla Ventures doubles down on Even Healthcare to challenge India’s hospital economics

Even Healthcare reaches a $300 million valuation in a Khosla Ventures-led round as it plans to expand its hospital network in Indi...

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TechCrunch No agenda, no rush, no leaving San Francisco: Benchmark’s partners on investing in a frenzied market

Benchmark may have grown its funds and swapped out some partners, but onstage the five who are left sounded like friends who just...

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TechCrunch Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’

The company offered some broad-strokes ideas for how this money might actually be used, such as “large donations to traditional no...

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TechCrunch Everyone’s watching the Elizabeth Holmes documentary ‘You Can See Everything’

"You Can See Everything" is having the second biggest opening weekend ever for a documentary film.

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TechCrunch TechCrunch Mobility: Rivian’s next act

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in...

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TechCrunch Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character AI’s workforce

The filing also says that the “vast majority” of Character.AI employees who were offered jobs at Disney accepted them. However, th...

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TechCrunch Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns

A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.

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TechCrunch Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings

The composition of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year.

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TechCrunch TikTok says it’s restored ‘Musk’ documentary advertising account

A four-hour documentary about Elon Musk continues to meet resistance from social media platforms.

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TechCrunch Replit makes OpenAI its default over Anthropic, CEO says

Over the weekend, Masad clarified that OpenAI would replace Anthropic as its default model provider. Claude will still be availabl...

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TechCrunch Ember’s new temperature-controlled mug makes my nightly tea ritual even better

The biggest change about Ember's new mug is that you no longer have to open the app to adjust your drink’s temperature.

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TechCabal Cracking the Nigerian syllabus: How Ex-UNILAG students engineered an exam cheat-code

UniBeta uses AI to help Nigerian university students prepare for exams.

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TechCabal Why an Ethiopian nurse swapped her scrubs for software

Medanit is a digital healthcare platform that is aiming to make healthcare easier to access in Ethiopia.

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TechCabal JAMB’s Canadian ambition: A $20 ticket to a system parents fought to leave

JAMB plans to offer its entrance exam in Ottawa from 2027, using Nigeria’s diplomatic mission rather than building a new facility....

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TechCrunch Mark Wahlberg wants to take on the longevity-startup crowd with an affordable gym concept

Mark Wahlberg, who once sank money into a gym chain that got kicked off the NYSE, is now building his own, and he promises you’ll...

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