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Trends and advances in Robotics and Automation are being closely watched in software and hardware space. However, it is especially hard for integrators to bring together software and hardware to meet industrial needs. Aria Insights, a drone data analytics company recently announced that it is shuttering operations. The company confirmed […]

Drone analytics startup Aria Insights shuts down


Shenzhen, China – RoboSense , a leader in LiDAR perception technology solutions and CES 2019 Innovation Award Honoree, announced today that it has provided cold-resistant all-weather LiDAR for the world’s first autonomous driving shuttle bus for all weather conditions — GACHA. GACHA is equipped with RoboSense’s advanced cold-resistant 16-beam mechanical LiDAR […]

RoboSense Provides Cold Resistant LiDAR to GACHA – First Autonomous ...


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 ...


Researchers developed the seats to measure biometrics during ‘natural’ processes. With 1 million new cases of congestive heart failure diagnosed each year, a revolutionary product is making it easier for hospitals to monitor patients with the condition in the comfort of their own homes. A toilet-seat based cardiovascular monitoring system […]

Toilet seat that detects congestive heart failure getting ready to ...



Trends in Artificial intelligence (AI) are closely watched by industry analysts and technologists. Even students planning a career in this dynamic field are closely watching for developments. A while ago, we ran a feature on “Top 20 Companies paying the Highest salary for A.I Engineers” We also ran a feature […]

Google and Udacity launch free machine learning course


Roundup of news and ideas from the world of startups – Week ending 3rd March 2019 News you can use Why is the wedding industry so hard to disrupt? Weddings are big money — but not for Silicon Valley. Zola, the e-commerce platform reinventing wedding registries by allowing couples to […]

Startup news roundup – Week ending 3rd March 2019


REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 28, 2019 – Informatica®, the enterprise cloud data management leader, today announced it has acquired AllSight Inc., the Toronto startup and customer insights market innovator, to bring expanded business-user engagement to the Informatica Intelligent Data Platform™, powered by the CLAIRE™ engine, and deliver game-changing capabilities for […]

Informatica Acquires AllSight, AI-Enabled Customer Insights Startup



Google recently announced that it is “pausing” work on its messaging platform Allo, in order to put its resources into the adoption of RCS (Rich Communication Services), a messaging standard that has the potential to tie together SMS and other chat apps. “Allo will continue to work through March 2019 […]

Google kills off its messaging App. Will shut Allo by ...