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👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Uber exits, again

In today's edition: Uber exits Tanzania, again || Canal+ is cutting costs at MultiChoice || Airtel Africa hits 81,500km fibre network || Google launches speech

2026/02/03

Investors often overlook promising startups. This VC program trains scouts

Seven24, a venture scout academy, wants to teach Africans how to be venture scouts and improve access to capital for founders.

2026/02/03

Moniepoint went from PoS scale to full-stack lock-in in two years

In 2015, Moniepoint, then TeamApt, one of Nigeria’s most prominent fintechs, was building payment infrastructure for banks. By 2025, it was no longer a company

2026/02/03

Google joins push to localise AI for African languages with speech database

WAXAL is an open-source speech database designed to support the development of voice-based artificial intelligence for African languages.

2026/02/03

Valentine’s Day cash bouquets could land Kenyans in legal trouble, Central Bank warns

While the regulator said it does not object to cash being given as a gift, it stressed that such use should not involve any action that alters or defaces banknotes

2026/02/02

Airtel Africa hits 81,500km fibre network as data demand surges

Airtel Africa, one of the largest telecommunication companies on the continent, expanded its fibre network to more than 81,500 kilometres as of December 2025

2026/02/02

Amazon’s ambitions for satellite internet in Nigeria hinge on two critical licences

Global tech company, Amazon’s ambition to deliversatellite Internet in Nigeria is closer to reality, but it is not yet ready for lift-off.

2026/02/02

Africa’s creatives face pressure as Canal+ plans content and operations cuts

But its new cost-cutting drive threatens to hit the creative ecosystem that sustains thousands of jobs and has become central to the continent’s cultural exports

2026/02/02

Uber exits Tanzania as pricing rules squeeze ride-hailing model

Uber has exited Tanzania after telling riders it would stop operating from 30 January 2026 after years of clashes over fares and regulatory control.

2026/02/02

👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – CinetPay’s $1.2M problem

In partnership with Lire en Français اقرأ هذا باللغة العربية Good morning. ☀️️ Nigeria is getting serious about better connectivity. Between the Nigerian Communications

2026/02/02