With a team that helped build the brain behind Alexa, HomeX raises $90M – TechCrunch

HomeX, a home services platform for homeowners and service providers, has raised $90 million in a funding round led by New Mountain Capital. New Mountain Capital, a New York-based investment…

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Bloomscape’s Justin Mast explains how he built a thriving garden startup in Detroit – TechCrunch

Justin Mast has a simple reason for starting his plant retail startup Bloomscape in Detroit. “This is home,” he told me. “This is where I have a really strong network…

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Russia’s Sputnik vaccine approved for emergency use in India: Health Ministry

India's drug regulator has granted permission for restricted emergency use of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V with certain conditions, the Union Health Ministry announced on Tuesday, while stating that…

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Google Lens with OCR feature is now available on Google Photos for desktop web- Technology News, FP

FP TrendingApr 13, 2021 18:14:37 ISTFor convenient text copying through optical character recognition (OCR), Google has now introduced its Google Lens feature to the desktop web inside Google Photos. As…

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Huawei to invest one billion dollars for developing electric vehicle systems, self-driving tech- Technology News, FP

Agence France-PresseApr 13, 2021 18:18:21 ISTEmbattled Chinese tech giant Huawei on Monday vowed to weather wide-ranging US sanctions with a push into the intelligent vehicle sector and ramping up development…

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