23 Israel-related technology headlines from the week of July 20, 2008
Filed under: Cleantech, Company Briefs, Environment, Information Technology, Telecomunications, VC, Web2.0
Project Better Place, telecommunications and speculation about the current state and future of Israel’s hi-tech industry highlight the technology news related to Israel during the week of July 20, 2008. Both the UK and some fuel companies are mulling joining the electric car company, while telecom company, Amimon announced that it will be working with major electronics corporations to establish a WHDI standard for Wireless HDTV connections. Although, news about Israel’s hi-tech industry’s “brain drain,” isn’t new, news about the impact of the strength of the Israeli Shekel vs. the U.S. dollar, the latest crisis are. Companies that created R&D centers in Israel for the benefits of an educated work force that would require less money than their U.S. and Western European equivalents are now freezing their Israeli employees’ incomes and outsourcing to Eastern European countries where it is still cheaper. For more on these stories and the rest of this week’s 23 Israel-related technology headlines, check the list below.
Cleantech
Fuel cos may join Better Place
UK may join Project Better Place
M&A and Investments
New VC fund seeks TV, movie investments
Road safety technology co GreenRoad raises $3m
Agro-biotech start-up Kiima raises $8m
Summary of Israeli High-Tech Company Capital Raising Q2 / H1 2008
Information Technology
SISENSE
Upgrades its Business Intelligence Software With a New Release to
Support Analysis and Charting on top of CSV, EXCEL 2007, Access 2007
FILES; Beta Available for Free
Internet/Web 2.0
Google as a start-up?
PredictAd Leverages Israeli Partnerships for Global Growth (Israel Media Tour)
Telecommunications
Cellcom markets mobile music
Israeli co to launch cellphone-based people finder
Mobixell pioneers technology for cellphone ads
modu selected by AlwaysOn as the Top Mobile Company of AO Global 250
Electronics Heavyweights Work Together on WHDI Technology
Next-Gen Cellphones To Have Israeli Ring
Miscellaneous
Venture IPO drought worst in 30 years
Israel Turns to Outsourcing as the Shekel Soars
Israel neglects its oil fields
Infrastructures Ministry to launch alternative energy center
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17 Israel-related technology headlines from the week of July 13, 2008
Filed under: Company Briefs, Industry pulse, Information Technology, Mergers and Acquisitions, VC
During the week of July 13, 2008, SAP announced its plans to open an R&D center in Israel, following in the footsteps of corporations such as Microsoft, IBM and Intel. Microsoft’s purchase of data management company, Zoomix was officially announced and Magic Software signed a deal with Blat-Lapidot, a leading Salesforce.com Partner. Shopflick raised $7 million in funding while it was announced that Israeli startups, combined, raised over $1 billion in the first half of 2008 (the highest since 2001). What happened in cleantech this past week? Not much in relation to Israeli companies. There were however other headlines. For those and the previous stories, check below for the full list of the 17 Israel-related technology headlines from the week of July 17, 2008.
M&A and Partnerships
Magic Software Signs up Blat-Lapidot – a Leading Salesforce.com Partner
Mobile location tech co Destinator bought by Intinsync
Nextlink to develop technology with Israeli partner through $1M grant
Alvarion, Ceragon and ECI in Danish WiMAX project
Microsoft Bolsters Data Management With Zoomix Purchase
Investments
Israeli start-ups raise over $1 billion
Israel to invest NIS 400m in alternative energy
Leon Recanati invests in Whitewater
Shopflick Closes $7 Million in Funding Led by Panorama Capital and Venrock
More investment for Israeli start-ups
Information Technology
SAP to open R&D center in Israel
Bill Gates, Microsoft Endorse PNMSoft Business Process Management BPM Software
Slovak Telekom Expands its Relationship with Amdocs
Tech Watch: Major US utility selects NICE Systems
Tech budget cut, but engineers lacking
Playtech, Paramount Pictures Deal Announced
About the author: Lisa Damast is the Membership
Manager of ebizQ.net and currently resides in Israel. Any questions or
inquiries regarding this blog or ebizQ membership services can be
directed to her via email at ldamast (at) ebizq (dot) net. She can also be followed on Twitter, where she covers additional Israeli technology companies and Israel-related headlines and topics.
21 Israel-related technology headlines from the week of July 6, 2008
Filed under: Cleantech, Environment, Industry pulse, Information Technology, Web2.0
During the week of July 6, 2008, news broke that Ness Technologies plans on selling its Israeli unit to SAP and there was a rumor that Google plans on buying VoIP service, Jajah. Virtualization companies Xeround and Ceedo were active, while in cleantech, environmentalists claimed that solar panel pricing is wrong. While these are some of the stories that stood out, they weren’t the only ones. Check below for the full list of the 21 Israel-related technology headlines from the week of July 6, 2008.
Cleantech
Environmentalists: Solar panel pricing wrong
Israel helps China with wave power
For most Israeli contractors, green isn’t an issue
Funding rises for clean-tech start-ups
Deals and Partnerships
Jacada Signs Material Contract with Nationwide Insurance
InstallFree signs SaaS OEM agreement with Click Manageware
Ness Technologies set to sell Israeli unit to SAP
Information Technology
Mellanox
InfiniBand Adapters Provide Leading Storage Connectivity to Galactic
Computing’s Line of VSTOR Storage Systems and Gateways
Virtualization is “Xeround” The Corner With An Extra $16 Million
VMware sets up new R&D centre in Israel
Microsoft Going After MSN Israel Ltd.
MSN Israel employees had little warning of Microsoft moves
Miscellaneous
Israel’s global firms employ 63,000 overseas
Walla, ICQ launch new communications program
Digital photo co PhotoFree raises NIS 2.84m
Oil hits record ($145.98) above $147 on Nigeria unrest, Israel / Iran tension
Sightix Offers B2B Social Networking Search Solution [Israel Media Tour]
Meet BreadCrumbz, An Israeli Finalist of The Adroid Developer Challenge
About the author: Lisa Damast is the Membership
Manager of ebizQ.net and currently resides in Israel. Any questions or
inquiries regarding this blog or ebizQ membership services can be
directed to her via email at ldamast (at) ebizq (dot) net. She can also be followed on Twitter, where she covers additional Israeli technology companies and Israel-related headlines and topics.
12 Israel-related headlines from the week of June 29, 2008 (Bonus edition)
Filed under: Business Intelligence, CRM, Company Briefs, Israeli Websites, VC, Web2.0
Israel’s hi-tech scene was in a bit of a lull during the week of June 29, 2008, perhaps because of July 4th in the United States. The biggest news was about Google AdWords killer, Peer39, which has a semantic search engine that brings back more accurate results and can thus display better ads. It also has the ability to differentiate between positive and negative contexts of words. After Peer39, Microsoft made headlines with two announcements. The first announcement was that it has partnered with Ben-Gurion University and the second was that MSN Israel will now be controlled fully by Microsoft and no longer jointly with Internet Gold. There was also a lot of technology investment-related news that took place. For these and the rest of the 12 technology-related headlines from the week of June 29, 2008, as well as a special bonus check below.
Technology
Microsoft and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev announce agreement
A First Look Inside Peer39 & Its Semantic Advertising Technology
Microsoft to take full charge of MSN Israel
Alvarion® Sets Off First Mobile WiMAX™ Internet Service in the U.S.
Business
Cleantech Index (CTIUS) Expands Globally, Adds 33 New Companies
Israel’s high-tech culture must rejigger, VC says
Options trade points to stronger shekel
VMware Completes Acquisition of B-hive Networks
IncrediMail and Google Sign AdSense Direct Agreement
Miscellaneous
What Determines the Price of Oil?
Destination: San Francisco. And Still NoGoBoingo
Bonus
This past Tuesday, popular Israel Web 2.0 blog, the.co.ils hosted its annual web startup competition, TWS2008. Ten Israeli Web 2.0 companies were selected by an impressive list of judges and gave brief presentations about what they do. Some of the winners included, Nuconomy, Dapper, HiveSight and WorkLight. WorkLight securely brings personalized Web 2.0 into the enterprise. Here are two video clips of part of WorkLight’s presentation:
About the author: Lisa Damast is the Membership
Manager of ebizQ.net and currently resides in Israel. Any questions or
inquiries regarding this blog or ebizQ membership services can be
directed to her via email at ldamast (at) ebizq (dot) net. She can also be followed on Twitter, where she covers additional Israeli technology companies and Israel-related headlines and topics.
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