Tweet The most shocking headline from the week of March 8, 2009 was that Delver, the social search engine that was placed on deadpool watch about a month ago was bought by Sears Holding Co. Such purchases could become more common this year as it was also reported during the week that it is expected […]
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Tweet The annual South By Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) conference kicks off in Austin, Texas tomorrow and will run through Tuesday afternoon. I’ll be at the conference, which celebrates emerging technology, some of the days and will, of course, be paying close attention to any Israeli representation there, specifically by, ooVoo, which will be exhibiting there. ooVoo […]
Tweet News from Israel’s cleantech industry during the week of March 1, 2009 showed that it will continue to grow throughout the recession and that substantial progress is starting to be made, such as with Aora receiving a license for its solar thermal plant on Kibbutz Samar. In contrast, IT companies Comverse and SAP Israel […]
Tweet This week has been filled with news about both more layoffs and funding. While the layoffs are more overwhelming than the investment deals, the most positive news thus far has not been about the investments made but about the investments that might be made in 2009. Globes has reported that the Chinese electronics company, Hisense, is […]
Tweet Jeff Neal at Optionetics.com posted yesterday that information security solutions provider, Check Point Software Technologies is continuing to experience growth, including in the United States and Europe, despite the economic downturn. According to Neal, “Check Point has solid fundamentals with great return on equity and a healthy cash flow. The latest earnings showed total revenues […]
Tweet When the second annual Eilat-Eilot International Renewable Energy Conference took place recently with over 700 attendees, it was known and expected that some representatives from both the Israeli and US governments would be there to talk about new projects between the two governments and that there would be other officials from state governments and […]
Tweet The week of February 22, 2009, was a fairly quiet one for Israel’s technology and business sectors… but there was still plenty that happened. News about Microsoft’s interests in purchasing 3DV Systems, a motion-sensing company, continued, as did layoff announcements. Tufin Technologies announced the general availability of its SecureChange Workflow software and IT Structures, […]
Tweet VShield Software Corp. announced today that it has begun talks to buy an Israel based B2B software company that develops software packages for the travel industry, including hotel chains and several International airlines. According to Andrea Zecevic, Chief Product Officer, “The Israeli company will operate independently as a wholly owned subsidiary in addition to […]
Tweet Imperva, an application data security company, today announced the SecureSphere Database Gateway for z/OS (DGZ), which offers end-to-end protection and auditing for IBM Mainframe Databases. According to the announcement, “SecureSphere DGZ provides comprehensive monitoring, auditing and protection for DB2 databases running on z/OS mainframes. DGZ tracks local and network activity by privileged users, non-privileged users, and […]
Tweet Last week the Internet was abuzz with Microsoft’s intentions to buy Israeli motion and depth sensor company, 3DV Systems. Microsoft’s offer of $35 million is below the $38.6 million invested in the company and seems to come out of desperation on the part of Kleiner Perkins. If the deal goes through, Microsoft will integrate […]
