Daily Archives: March 17, 2019


Roundup of news and ideas from the world of startups – Week ending 17th  March 2019 News you can use Toilet seat that detects congestive heart failure getting ready to begin commercialization – Researchers developed the seats to measure biometrics during ‘natural’ processes. With 1 million new cases of congestive […]

Startup news roundup – Week ending 17th March 2019


Riley, a tech-oriented lead-qualification startup that had raised millions in funding, announced this week that it was closing down and returning what remains of its cash to investors.     The CEO and co-founder of Riley, Daniel Ahmadizadeh announced the shutdown in a detailed LinkedIn post: Hi everyone, We made […]

Lead qualification startup Riley shuts down


Apple has acquired Laserlike, a small machine learning startup. According to an article in The Information, Apple purchased the four-year-old Silicon Valley-based startup, which was founded by three former Google engineers at the end of 2018. The article adds: “An Apple spokesperson confirmed the acquisition of the four-year-old startup, which […]

Apple acquires Laserlike, an ML startup. Hopes to make Siri ...