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TechCabal Mukuru wants Botswana’s phones to do more than receive and send money

For consumers who have traditionally received money through remittances or mobile wallets before cashing it out, the card removes...

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TechCabal Nigeria needs 62.5 million more NINs in six months to hit World Bank deadline

NIMC now has 117.5 million people with National Identification Numbers (NINs), but the latest World Bank assessment suggests the h...

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TechCabal Nigeria’s GDP growth is coming from sectors that don’t create enough jobs

Nigeria’s economy is growing faster than it has since the second quarter of 2021. But beyond the headline growth rate, Nigeria’s e...

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TechCabal African startups hit $2.10 billion in 8 months

African startups hit $2.10 billion in 8 months. Read our analysis of August's $438M surge, mega-deals, and early-stage grants.

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Nigeria probes Uber exit

In today's edition: Nigerian antitrust watchdog investigates Uber exit || ICASA reviews impact of digital platforms || FSCA fines...

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TechCabal Nigeria’s police Vigilant app raises questions about cycle of duplicate fraud reporting platforms

With several existing reporting channels already in place, what role would the Nigeria Police latest Vigilant app play in helping...

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TechCrunch Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement

Authors say publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of settlement payments.

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TechCrunch Phil Schiller’s App Store exit reportedly driven by wariness over future plans

Schiller reportedly had reservations about new CEO John Ternus' goal of bringing in more recurring revenue from the App Store.

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TechCrunch Travis Kalanick’s Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business

The Uber founder has said that Atoms will allow him to complete "unfinished business."

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TechCrunch TechCrunch Mobility: Tesla Cybercab hits the road — and a snag

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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TechCabal Next Wave: The perfect price discrimination

Big tech platforms across the continent are quietly deploying predictive software to shape consumer reality. Jumia, the pan-Africa...

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TechCabal Next Wave: Why Uber broke in Nigeria

Uber’s departure from Nigeria and Uganda signals the end of Silicon Valley’s unhedged expansion across Africa.

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TechCrunch Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft

Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI.

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TechCrunch Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning

The sheriff’s office said the hikers “were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required."

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TechCrunch Clucky’s new alarm app wakes you up with a crowing rooster

Clucky's new alarm app has an option where users are woken up to the sound of a rooster. They then complete a mission to turn it o...

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TechCrunch OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure

OpenAI acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum.

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TechCrunch Oura is going public, but these smart ring companies are coming for its crown

While Oura has largely dominated the smart ring market for years, a growing number of rivals are now racing to dethrone it by tryi...

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TechCabal Uber’s $14 ride problem in Nigeria

Uber spent 12 years in Nigeria and decided to leave because the market it operated in could not deliver the economies of scale req...

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TechCrunch XDOF, just 3 months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation

The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.

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TechCrunch OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them

OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question wh...

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TechCrunch AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing

Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcom...

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TechCrunch What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?

It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John...

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TechCrunch Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows ‘Tweet’ for now

A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned the “Twee...

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TechCrunch Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge

It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.

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