Tweet During the week of June 20, 2010, Vringo announced the pricing of its IPO. Motorola’s latest Android phone, Droid X, comes with Swype, a finger-tracing text-entry, and Israeli business continue to look to the East for opportunities. For these stories and more, see this week’s headlines below. Cleantech 1. Potato Batteries May Power The […]
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Tweet During the week of June 13th, news broke that IBM is in talks to buy Israel’s Storwize. A professor has found a way to develop potato batteries that can provide cheap power and collaboration between high-tech companies in Israel and India is expected to increase. For these stories and more, see this week’s headlines […]
Tweet During the week of June 6, 2010, Tigo Energy announced it raised $10 million to expand international sales and manufacturing capabilities. Check Point acquired Liquid Machines and Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz debuted at the annual High-Tech Industry Association Conference an extensive plan to help Israel’s high-tech sector. For these stories and more, see this week’s […]
Tweet During the week of May 30, 2010, Israel’s business ties with Turkey and China were explored and analyzed. Trusteer‘s Amit Klein was named CTO of the Year and SimilarGroup raised $1 million. For these stories and more see this week’s headlines below. Cleantech 1. Investigating the Business and Cultural Ties that Bind Israel to […]
Tweet During the week of May 23, 2010, Soluto, an “anti-frustration” software for making PCs more efficient, won the first TechCrunch Disrupt conference. Soluto is the latest Israeli startup to find success at a TechCrunch conference. Israeli and Taiwanese experts met in Taipei to discuss water technology and Israel’s highways are to go green, including […]
Tweet During the week of May 16, 2010, BrightSource Energy announced that it raised $150 million to explore solar thermal. Israel’s stocks were upgraded to ‘Developed’ and Israel’s economy was ranked the 17th most competitive and number one for resilience and R&D. For these stories and more, see this week’s headlines below. Cleantech 1. BrightSource […]
Tweet During the week of May 8, 2010, Israel was invited to join the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development along with Slovenia and Estonia. Israel’s membership in the international organization is expected to increase outside investments in the country. Multi-touch innovator N-Trig demoed new advanced multi-touch gestures that will be included in laptops later […]
Tweet During the week of May 2, 2010, it was revealed that Gemini invested in the fashion social network Sense of Fashion for an undisclosed amount. The industry was busy with conferences including Techonomy, SeedCamp and TheMarker’s COM.vention. During Techonomy, last year’s winner, Face.com presented about what it’s been up to the past year, which […]
Tweet During the week of April 18, 2010, Wibiya announced that it raised $2 million for its customizable web-based toolbars. Forbes magazine named Israel’s Shari Arison, founder of Miya, one of the world’s greenest billionaires and Testuff released a Mac version of its test management software. For these stories and more, see this week’s 11 […]
