During the week of November 22, 2009, Else, formerly Emblaze Mobile, revealed the first Linux-based smartphone. A possible iPhone killer, the device focuses on the user-experience first. SupportSpace announced it raised $10 million in funding and IBM acquired database security start-up, Guardium.For these stories and more, check below.

Cleantech
1. Preparing for Copenhagen: What can Israel expect?

2. US-Israel $3.3 m. energy cooperation

Investments and M&A
3. IBM to buy start-up Guardium for $225 million: report

4. SupportSpace Raises $10 Million Series B

Information Technology
5. Emblaze Mobile launch First Else Linux-based phone

6. Check Point Software focuses on virtualization and data centres

Miscellaneous
7. Six cities that beat the Big Apple?

8. Tonight in Tel Aviv: Twitter’s Biz Stone talks about the triumph of humanity

9. IBM wooed Guardium for almost a year