GSM encryption and 11 Israel-related Headlines, Week of January 10, 2010
Filed under: Advertising, Cleantech, Company Briefs, Environment, Information Technology, Mergers and Acquisitions, Mobile Web, Web2.0
During the week of January 10, 2010, CA acquired Israel-based Service Level Management (SLM) software company Oblicore and mobile TV chip maker Siano announced that it raised $24M. Israeli researchers announced that they cracked the encryption of 3G GSM networks. Find out more about these headlines and the rest of this week’s 11 headlines below.
Cleantech
1. Arad Technologies wins lucrative water metering deal in India
2. Climate Change and Clean Tech in Israel
3. Israeli businesses seek Texas partners in green technology
Investments
4. CA Confirms Oblicore Acquisition
5. Mobile TV chip maker Siano raises $24M
6. Amobee to buy UK’s RingRing Media
Information Technology
7. Will cable and satellite TV soon be outdated?
8. Researchers use PC to crack encryption for next-gen GSM networks
Miscellaneous
9. Israel rushes to Haiti’s aid
10. The First ELSE: A Mobile Phone from The Future (Videos)
Israel’s fastest growing software companies of 2009
Filed under: Advertising, Industry pulse, Information Technology, SaaS, Software, Uncategorized, cloud computing
Last month Deloitte Brightman Almagor Zohar, a professional services firm under the interational Deloitte brand in Israel, released its annual list of Israel’s top 50 fastest growing technology companies for 2009 based on percentage revenue growth over a five-year period. Fifteen software companies ranging from security to finance to storage made the list. Below is the top 10 software companies on the list and a little more about them. Will you be using any of these companies’s technologies in 2010?
Red Bend software
Red Bend Software is considered to be a market leader in Mobile Software Management and Firmware Over-the-Air (FOTA) update solutions. Founded in 1999, Red Bend Software offers solutions that give phone users more control over what software components they want on their phones while also increasing the data service revenues of phone carriers. The main solutions include firmware updates, software component updates and data management.
Imperva
Imperva is an application data security company that was founded in 2002 by Amichai Shulman and Check Point Software co-founder Shlomo Kramer. The company was named to Red Herring’s Top 100 in 2007 (link to video) and grew by more than 80% in 2008. Its success during the recession has been attributed to its software helping customers cut costs. Imperva’s products include the SecureSphere Data Security Suite, SecureSphere Web Application Firewall and Database Activity Monitoring.
InfoGin
InfoGin was founded in 2000 by Eran Wyler after he foresaw the “need for surfing the real Internet on any mobile device.” Over the years, InfoGin has become a leader in “Web-to-mobile content adaptation, enabling mobile users to access any Web site they desire, optimized to their mobile device.” The company’s Internet Mobile Platform (IMP) technology is currently being implemented by several major companies, including Virgin Mobile (UK) and MapQuest.
Safend
Israeli data protection company, Safend offers products for data encryption and port and device control. Founded in 2003, Safend in 2009 was also named to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection. The company also rounded out its suite adding Safend Inspector and Discoverer to Safend Reporter, Safend Encryptor and Safend Protector.
PineApp
PineApp is an e-mail and content systems security provider. Founded in 2002 by Gabriel Mizrahi and headquartered in Israel, PineApp’s products enhances email security by protecting against email-based spam and virus attacks. Its products include Mail-SeCure, Surf-SeCure and Secure SoHo. Earlier this month the company introduced two new products to its line, Mail-Encryption and Archive-SeCure.
Commtouch Software
Founded in 1991, Commtouch develops software to protect e-mail by offering spam and Zero-Hour™ virus outbreak protection. Its anti-spam solutions feature its Recurrent Pattern Detection (RPD) technology and have been licensed by over 80 security and messaging vendors and providers including Aladdin, Check Point, Fujitsu and LG N-Sys.
Zend
Zend offers products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications. The company was founded by Andi Gutmans and Zeev Surask and its customers include McAfee, UPI and IBM. In September 2009, Zend along with its partners, IBM and Microsoft, announced a new initiative for PHP developers who are working on cloud-focused apps. Its products include Zend Server, Zend Platform and Zend Core.
IDIT I.D.I. Technologies
IDIT Technologies was founded in 1998 and offers SOA-based software solutions for the insurance industry. In July 2009 Forrester Research named the company among the hot insurance tech companies to watch in 2009, mainly for its multi-language and currency support innovations. The IDIT software suite addresses the specific end-to-end needs of general insurance for the insurance and financial markets including Business Intelligence, Workflow Management and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). IDIT’s R&D center is headed by Lilia Waserman and its customers include Alfa Insurance and RAC Insurance.
PNMSoft
PNMSoft is a Business Process Management (BPM) and workflow software provider. Founded in 1996, PNMSoft provides customers, such as Amdocs, Microsoft and Philips, with solutions to better manage content and businesses from start to finish. PNMSoft’s poducts include SEQUENCE BPM workflow software based on Microsoft’s Windows Workflow Foundation platform. The company currently has an R&D center currently in Israel and was a Microsoft 2009 SOA and Business Process Partner of the Year Finalist.
VIZrt
VIZrt offers content production tools for the digital media industry. It was founded in 2000 and some of its clients include Fox, CBS and The Globe and Mail. Along with its products Viz Content Pilot and Viz Artist, VIZrt also offers mobile solutions. In 2008, Vizrt acquired Escenic.
World Economic Forum Names Amobee and Innovid Technology Pioneers 2010
Amobee Media Systems and Innovid have been named Technology Pioneers 2010 by the World Economic Forum. The two startups along with 24 others, including Twitter and Amiando, were identified for developing new technology that can “change and improve the way business and society operate.”
Here’s a little more about the startups:
Led by CEO Zohar Levkovitz and Gary Schofield, Amobee has developed advertising server technology for mobile operators that dynamically “inserts relevant ads into different mobile entertainment and communication channels” that users can interact with.
Founded in 2006 by Tal Chalozin and CEO Zvika Netter, Innovid provides publishers and advertisers with the ability to monetize online video by integrating brand advertising into relevant video content. Innovids technology enables advertisers “to insert 3D objects into videos post-production” that blend into the rest of the video but still attracts the user to click and interact with it.
As Technology Pioneers, Amobee and Innovid will have access to the World Economic Forum’s elite network of members and can attend the annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, among other events.
Editor’s note: This was originally posted on TechAviv.com.
Venture Capital and 10 Israel-related Headlines, Week of October 18, 2009
Filed under: Advertising, Cleantech, Company Briefs, Environment, SaaS, Uncategorized, VC, Web2.0
During the week of October 18, 2009, 70 countries gathered to standardize electric car chargers. The decline in venture capital investments in Israel during the third quarter was analyzed as was the mark Israel is leaving on Information Technology software, specifically as relates to security. For these stories and more, check out the headlines from the week of October 18, 2009 below.
Cleantech
70 countries gather in TA to standardize electric car chargers
Innowattech Proves It Can Collect Energy From Highways and Byways
Investment
Can VC succeed in cleantech?
IVC Report: VC Investments in Israeli Companies Decline 50% in Q3
Information Technology
Israel carves a niche in IT security
Tools for Semantic Targeting (Peer39)
WordPress.com automates PicApp images for bloggers
Miscellaneous
Facing Tomorrow tech exhibition focuses on Israeli brain power
Israelis working to save endangered species through cloning
IBM and 11 Israel-related Headlines, Week of September 6, 2009
Filed under: Advertising, Cleantech, Company Briefs, Environment, Uncategorized, cloud computing, data security, virtualization
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?
11. Diagnosing lung cancer through a simple exhale
Crowdsourcing and 11 Israel-related headlines, Week of July 26, 2009
Filed under: Advertising, Cleantech, Company Briefs, Environment, Information Technology, Uncategorized, VC, Web2.0
During the week of July 26, 2009, FRX Polymers announced that it raised funds to develop green plastics. Reality television is getting “high-tech” with “Exit ‘09″, while uTest is relying on the crowds to shorten software testing time. The Western Wall is now accepting tweets and the Israeli public might soon be forced to accept biometric cards. For more on these stories and the rest of this weekk’s 11 Israel-related technology headlines, see below.
Cleantech
1. Letting the sunshine in
Investment and Economy
3. Stellar Start-Ups: Hi-tech ‘reality’ show to give away $250,000
4. How To Raise Money: Israel’s 5Min Raised $7.5 Million
5. ‘Israel is on the right track’
Information Technology
6. Personalization helps companies get most from Web
7. Crowdsourcing slashes software testing time
8. Using software updates to spread malware
Miscellaneous
9. Western Wall gets prayers via Twitter, technology
10. Knesset to vote on biometric database bill during recess
11. ‘Waltz With Bashir’ Fuels Growth in Israel’s Animation Industry
Actimize and 10 Israel-related Headlines, Week of July 26, 2009
Filed under: Advertising, Cleantech, Environment, Information Technology, Uncategorized, VC, Web2.0, security
During the week of July 12, 2009, Status Search, a web tool that enables users to search Facebook and Twitter statuses, was covered by TechCrunch. How Israel can lead clean tech was explained while Israel and China completed a solar plant in southern Israel. VC fund, Pitango is looking for a partner in China to create a fund jointly and Actimize’s software is now helping a Top-5 bank in the US fight against fraud in real time. For these stories and more, check out this week’s 10 Israel-related headlines below.
Environment
1. Israeli-made Light Energy Controller saves power around the world
2. Can Israel lead in clean tech?
4. Lots of Sunshine Power in the Holy Land as China and Israel Complete Solar Plant
Investment
5. Pitango eyes $100-200 mln China fund -sources
6. Kontera raises $15.5 million for in-text ad service
Information Technology
7. SafeNet Announces Launch of New eSafe® SmartSuite™ Web and Mail Security Gateway
8. Actimize Helps U.S. Bank Fight Fraud In Real-Time
Miscellaneous
9. Meet the kids at the heart of Israel’s high-tech future
10. Status Search: A Search Engine For What Your Friends Are Saying Online
VC funding and 10 Israel-related headlines, Week of June 7, 2009
Filed under: Advertising, Cleantech, Company Briefs, Uncategorized, VC, Web2.0
During the week of June 7, 2009, research showed that the recession has impacted VC plans, which was long suspected and that cleantech investments faired the best of the different sectors. It was revealed that Intel’s recent acquisition of Wind River Systems includes an R&D center in Israel while the investment and Israeli startup series on Israel Innovation 2.0 continued with a closer look at Answers.com. For these stories and more, check below for this week’s 10 Israel-related headlines.
Cleantech
1. Giving New Meaning to ‘Electric Avenue’
2. Flower Power: World’s First Hybrid Solar-Gas Turbine Turning on Soon
Investments
3. Deloitte survey shows recession hit on VC plans
4. All that glitters / Nothing ventured, nothing lost
5. Israeli startups during the economic crisis: Answers.com
Information Technology
6. Intel acquisition has Israel center
7. Peer39 Digs Deep With Semantics
8. The ‘Final’ Frontier of Algorithmic Trading
Miscellaneous
9. Nike to Introduce Shoe Recycling Program in Israel
10. Madonna announces second concert in Israel this summer
12 Israel-related headlines from the week of May 17, 2009
Filed under: Advertising, Cleantech, Company Briefs, Information Technology, Mobile Web, Uncategorized, VC, Web2.0, cloud computing
During the week of May 17, 2009, news focused on a California cleantech investors mission to Israel that was deemed successful and Israeli companies trying to build a global profile for themselves. In mobile and video technology, Waze announced its technology, which offers real-time traffic reports based on user input, and Yaniv Axen of SundaySky was interviewed. For more on these stories and the rest of this week’s 12 headlines, check below.
Cleantech
1. UN Climate Talks: Cleantech IP Battle of the Year?
2. Will the Electric Car Make the World a Better Place?
Investment
3. Israeli Companies Seek Global Profile
4. China’s 4 trillion Yuan stimulus package: Israeli opportunities
5. IVA 2009 – Business as Usual?
Information Technology and Web 2.0
6. Waze: The traffic of the crowds
7. B.O.S. to provide large-scale wastemanagement solution
8. Yaniv Axen, Co-Founder of SundaySky
9. AcCells Named a Mobile Innovation Grand Prix Nominee
10. Innovating Video Conferencing In Israel
Miscellaneous
11. Photo: Sandstorm Strikes Israel
12. Viva Tel Aviv!
14 Israel-related headlines from the week of March 15, 2009
Filed under: Advertising, Cleantech, Uncategorized, VC, data security
During the week of March 15, 2009, Google fully integrated adCore into Froogle offering a more complete SEO and shopper technology package. Information security companies, Imperva and Trusteer were busy rolling out new features and collaborating on a new anti-malware tool, respectively. Meanwhile, David Pogue of the New York Times wrote about Shai Agassi’s electric car vision and scientists announced the creation of a new device that enables plants to send text alerts to the mobile deviice of farmers notifying them when they need water and thus preventing excess watering. For these stories and much more, check out this week’s 14 Israel-related headlines below.
Cleantech
1. The Orange Tree is Texting — Again
2. Electric Cars for All! (No, Really This Time)
Investments and Economy
3. Russians in Israel to talk nanotech
4. Commex Tech Raises $3.5 Million
5. Israeli business delegation visits Vietnam
6. Israel’s technology entrepreneurs switch from growth to survival
Information Technology
8. Froogle Submission Is Now Available Within adCore
9. Apache Corporation Selects Aternity for End User Experience Management
10. Imperva upgrades database activity analysis too
11. DNSstuff Partners With Trusteer On Malware-Prevention Tool
Miscellaneous
13. Japanese Sea Coral Can Change Sex In Order to Survive Global Warming
14. Omek Interactive to launch 3-D camera for gesture-controlled games
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