15 Israel-related headlines from the week March 22, 2009 (Sarah Lacy TechCrunch Edition)
Filed under: Cleantech, Company Briefs, Environment, IT management, Industry pulse, Information Technology, Mergers and Acquisitions, VC, Web2.0, virtualization
During the week of March 22, 2009, it was announced that Israel will share its farming technology with Kenya and more details of the government’s water technology initiative, NEWTech were given. The sale of Aladdin Knowledge to Vector Capital was completed with the news that Aladdin and SafeNet were under common management and information security company, Tufin, added new features to its firewall management platform. Facebook became even more stalkerish with a new photo facial recoginition and tagging application by Israel-based Face.com and SEO guru, Barry Schwartz shared what he found Israeli SEMs are looking for. These stories are only some of the main ones that made it into the media last week. For links to these and the rest of the stories from the week of March 22, 2009, check below.
Cleantech and Environment
1. Israel NEWTech, A Government Initiative To Promote And Grow Israeli Water Technology And Innovation
2. Israel to share farming technology with Kenya
Investment and M&A
3. Value of Israeli high-tech M&A fell 19 percent in 2008
4. Funded: GoViral, BriefCam, Extreme Reach (BriefCam)
5. SafeNet, Aladdin Knowledge Under Common Mgmt
Information Technology
6. HP to Provide Compaq My Bhasha with its Desktops
7. New Cyber-Ark controller clocks all super-user activity
8. SkillIQ is set to Revolutionize the Human Resources World
9. Dell Certifies Aternity as ISV Partner
10. Tufin adds white lists to firewall management platform
Miscellaneous
11. Israel’s Explay helps you see the big picture
12. First Look: Photo Finder facial recognition app for Facebook
14. Partnerships between Florida, Israel are key
Bonus: TechCrunch’s Sarah Lacy in Israel and reactions.
Sarah Lacy, August 2008
Last week Twitter and the Web erupted when the newest member of the TechCrunch team, Sarah Lacy, posted that Israeli entrepreneurs lost their mojo and that investing in Israel was overhyped. Here are are just some of the responses to Lacy’s post as well as her post and its follow up.
Now that China Is the New Israel…What’s Israel? (TC)
What’s behind Sarah Lacy trash talking the Israeli VC scene
Israel is the new Israel (Israel Innovation 2.0 response)
Sarah Lacy, David Li and the Wrong Side of Historical Performance
Risk Aversion And The Perils Of Selling Too Early (Israeli Startups, Part II) (TC)
Twitter responds
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