Investment news related to Israeli companies was close to full force during the week of August 31, 2008 with SemantiNet and ASOCS leading the way with $3.4 million and $8 million raised, respectively. There was also some noise on the acquisitions end, with Red Hat announcing its acquisition of Israeli virtualization company, Qumranet. It was also a big week in surveys – a recent survey by Voltaire found that IT executives understand the importance of green data centers but that they don’t have the financial backing to make the transformation, while an NDS survey revealed that more than 80 percent of Americans with a DVR can’t live without it. These stories make up just the tip of the iceberg that is the 24 Israel-related technology headlines from this past week. For the full list and links, check below.

Cleantech
1. Cleantech Israel business network fills niche

2. The cleantech start-up nursery

3. Whitewater Technology Group Acquires Cutting-Edge Water Management Firms

Investments and M&A
4. Israeli hedge funds beat benchmark

5. SemantiNet Announces Combined $3.4M Series A Funding Round, New US Office

6. ASOCS Closes $8 Million in a Second Round Funding Led by FGF

7. Israel’s Infinity invests in Digital China spin-off

8. BRIEF: Corrigon raises $2m: The company’s solution enables real-time media tracking and visual search

9. Connect2Media buys Israeli mobile firm RayFusion

10. Expand Nabs NetPriva

Information Technology
11. Voltaire Survey Shows IT Executives See Greening of Data Center as Mission-Critical, But Lack “Green” To Go Green

12. Red Bend Enables Lenovo Mobile to Manage Software Over-the-Air

13. Oracle’s start-up matchmaker

14. MiniFrame’s Powerful Multi-User PC Solution Implemented by Nigerian Navy

Qumranet Acquisition
15. Red Hat buys Qumranet for $107M. What does this mean for KVM and SolidICE?

16. Red Hat Advances Virtualization Leadership with Qumranet, Inc. Acquisition

17. Red Hat buys Qumranet – Gets KVM and SolidICE

18. KVM vs. Xen vs. VMware. Is it a Hypervisor War?

Miscellaneous
19. Sharp drop in start-up failures

20. Entrepreneurs Find Ways to Make Technology Work With Jewish Sabbath

21. More Than 80 Percent of Americans with a DVR Can’t Live without It According to NDS Survey

22. The in-house laundry

23. Media Giant Bloomberg Coming to Israel

24. Shemaroo and Israel’s IMA join hands for mobile VAS

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