Tweet During the week of December 7, 2008 there was a lot of activity in the cleantech sector. Better Place made a few announcements, including its latest deal in Japan and the Technion-Israel Insitute of Technology in Haifa announced that engineers there invented a road surface that generates electricity as cars drive over it. In […]
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Tweet The week of November 30, 2008 showed that (some) companies are still being funded, information security is still important and why Israelis are good at sales. For these stories and more, check below for this week’s 16 Israel-related technology headlines. Cleantech 1. “Israel’s Cleantech Predicted to Reach Legendary Status” by Minnesota Environmental Expert 2. […]
Tweet Featured during the week of November 16, 2008 were news of Michigan’s governor signing a water technology partnership agreement with Israel and news that Israel’s current drought is the worst its been in over 100 years. Security firm, Finjan announced that it raised $22 million and AOMi partnered with Cordys. Contradicting stories on the […]
Tweet Israeli data leakage protection company, Safend, has released a set of tips for how companies can keep their data safe during the Holiday season and long after. Tips include: Employ a Sound Auditing Process: Portable storage devices such as iPods, PDAs, smart phones and other mobile devices, have become pervasive in the workplace. Allowing […]
Tweet The week of November 2, 2008 was filled with conferences and awards. Deloitte announced the 50 fastest-growing high-tech companies in Israel for the year 2008 with Runcom taking the top honor and last year’s top company, Voltiare coming in second place. On Monday, at the Globes and Ernst & Young Israel Journey ’08, Amobee […]
Tweet During the week of October 26, 2008, news continued out of Israel of the first lay-offs resulting from the turning economy. While companies such as AmDocs and Delver announced cut people, Check Point asserted that though its customers were being affected by the economy, the information security company wasn’t at the moment impacted enough […]
Tweet Welcome to israelinnovation20.com, the future home of the Israel Innovation 2.0 blog! The move will be taking place in the upcoming weeks but until then you can still find Israel Innovation 2.0 at its current home: http://www.itgumbo.com/IsraelInnovation20/.
Tweet During the week of October 19, 2008, startups in Israel and abroad continued to be warned to cut costs and be careful. Better Place (formerly known as Project Better Place) inked a deal with Australia and Israel’s Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni was rumored to abandon her efforts to build a new coalition government that […]
Tweet The week of October 12th was surprisingly busy in Israel. Talk of how Israeli universities and colleges might not open this year due to funding continued, while a serious solution to the recent “brain drain” problem was proposed. Though darker days are still ahead for the U.S. and global economies and VCs and others […]
