Doodle Buys Israeli Scheduling Startup Meekan

July 4, 2016 | Doodle, an online scheduler and a subsidiary of the Swiss media group Tamedia, has bought Tel Aviv-based startup Meekan, a developer of a chatbot that acts as a virtual scheduling assistant, for an undisclosed amount. Meekan was founded in 2013 by the father-son duo Lior and Eyal Yavor and is based on the company’s scheduling and optimization technology, as well as the Flexible Time algorithm.