Israel Innovation 2.0

During the week of September 20, 2009, Nefos announced that it will use Magic Software’s business and process integration suite, iBolt. Waze continued to garner attention for its user-generated mobile road map application and analysts expect the online community software market to reach $1.6 billion by 2013. For these stories and more, check this week’s 10 headlines below.

Cleantech
1. Color matters: GreenSun Energy colored solar technology

2. New boost for clean energy launched

Investment
3. The Great VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) – Part 1 of 3

Industry Trends
4. Cloud computing gathers steam with mobile devices

5. IDC forecasts $1.6 billion online community software market by 2013

Information Technology
6. African broadband growth could lead to higher spam rates (PineApp)

7. Nefos Selects Magic Software’s Business, Process Integration Suite

8. DEMOfall: Crowdsourcing Brings New Life To Mapmaking (Waze)

9. Growing businesses urged to start dialogue through email marketing

Miscellaneous
10. China marks 17 years with Israel

During the week of September 13, 2009, Better Place and Renault announced that the first electric vehicles will arrive in Israel in 2011. Perfecto Mobile, now known as Nexperience, raised $7 million and Commtouch released a report about a sharp increase in the amount of new viruses. For these stories and more, check out this week’s 10 Israel-related headlines below.

Cleantech
1. Cleantech: Selfishness Sells

2. Renault electric vehicle to roll into Israel in 2011

Investment and Economy
3. Israel teaches the world a lesson in economics

4. Exclusive: Startup Perfecto Mobile Raises $7M for Device-testing Service

Information Technology
5. How Intel turned failure into success

6. Chi-X Chooses IBM for High-Speed Messaging

7. Yodlee Fights Online Payment Fraud Using Actimize, a NICE Company, Real-Time Analytics Technology

8. All is not well with virus protection

Miscellaneous
9. Is Your Cell Phone Melting Your Brain? Not Yet.

10. U2, Coldplay coming to Israel

During the week of September 6, 2009, IQWind was named a top 100 cleantech company and Tufin Technologies, among other security companies, found that phishing scams are increasing again with the end of summer. IBM Israel played a major role in developing SAPIR, a video and photo search technology that the company claims is better than the methods used by Google and Yahoo. For more on these stories and the rest of this week’s 11 technology headlines, see below.

Cleantech
1. Bechtel to Build Solar Plant in California

2. Israel-based SolarEdge looking for PV system partners in Taiwan

3. IQwind Ltd. Named a Global Cleantech 100Clean Technology Company

Information Technology
4. IBM, European Researchers Develop Multimedia Search Tool

5. As summer ends, phishing season is on the horizon

6. Behavioral Targeting Cozies Up To Video Ads

7. Xeround pushes database virtualisation as integration tool

8. Visual WebGui: Reaching for the top cloud

Miscellaneous
9. Did Israel’s Mossad snatch a Russian arms shipment to Iran?

10. Feeling the pinch

11. Diagnosing lung cancer through a simple exhale

During the week of August 30, 2009, bids from multiple companies for Israeli solar company, Solel were made. Nice Systems announced that it bought Fortent and N-Trig continues to be the leader in touchscreen technology in various devices. For these stories and more, check out this week’s 9 Israel-related headlines below.

Cleantech
1. Israel’s BPT Raises $12M For Clean Water Technology

2. Siemens, Areva, Alstom Said to Bid for Israeli Solar Firm Solel

Investments and Economy
3. Nice Systems buys Fortent, plans more purchases

4. Signs of recovery showing up at Israeli companies on Wall Street

Information Technology
5. Touchscreen popularity fuels lots of startups

6. SiSense’s PrismCubed Brings Enterprise-Class Business Intelligence To SMBs At A Fraction Of The Cost

7. NDS Announces Granular Audience Measurement

Miscellaneous
8. EMC founder Richard Egan dead at 73

9. FlyScreen Makes The Lock Screen Of Your Android Phone Useful