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Smart home startup Level Home emerges from stealth with $71M and unveils $249 Level Lock, which fits onto existing dead bolts on doors to make them smart (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Smart home startup Level Home emerges from stealth with $71M and unveils $249 Level Lock, which fits onto existing dead bolts on doors to make them smart  —  As companies like Google, Amazon and Apple hone their strategies to build the brain that helps you use the smart home of the

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French startup Herow, which enables developers and marketers to serve contextual messages in mobile apps, adds $8M to its $10.6M Series B, closed in 2015 (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: French startup Herow, which enables developers and marketers to serve contextual messages in mobile apps, adds $8M to its $10.6M Series B, closed in 2015  —  Herow, a French startup that helps marketers and app developers engage with mobile users with contextual messaging … French startup Herow, which enables developers and

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South Korean startup True Balance, which operates a financial services app in India for users to pay bills and offer credit to customers, raises $23M Series C (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: South Korean startup True Balance, which operates a financial services app in India for users to pay bills and offer credit to customers, raises $23M Series C  —  South Korean startup True Balance, which operates an eponymous financial services app aimed at tens of millions of users … South Korean startup

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A look at startups like Zippin and Standard Cognition that are pitching their Amazon Go-like tech to grocery chains, sports stadiums, and convenience stores (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)

Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: A look at startups like Zippin and Standard Cognition that are pitching their Amazon Go-like tech to grocery chains, sports stadiums, and convenience stores  —  Zippin and Standard Cognition are two of the startups pitching their systems and apps as nonthreatening alternatives to Amazon’s cashier-free tech A look at

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