14 Israel-related technology headlines from the week of November 2, 2008
The week of November 2, 2008 was filled with conferences and awards. Deloitte announced the 50 fastest-growing high-tech companies in Israel for the year 2008 with Runcom taking the top honor and last year’s top company, Voltiare coming in second place. On Monday, at the Globes and Ernst & Young Israel Journey ‘08, Amobee was named Globes “Start-up of the Year.” Companies in the Top 10 that have been covered in Israel Innovation 2.0 in the past include, Aternity, Inforgin and N-Trig. Also making headlines was SportVu, which provided the hologram technology that CNN used on Election Day in the United States and iSkoot, which raised $19 million. For the links to these stories and the rest of this week’s 14 Israel-related technology headlines, scroll down.
Cleantech
1. Electric cars of the future at the Web 2.0 Summit
Investments and the Economy
2. Downturn-Busting Venture Round For iSkoot: $19 Million
3. Pawlenty’s Israel trade trip takes shape
4. Central bank chief says Israeli economy resilient
5. Top 8 Creative Ideas For Startups To Triumph Over the Current Economic Downturn
Information Technology
6. Red Bend Software Earns MobileVillage’s Mobile Star Award
8. Tufin Technologies Moves Beyond Firewall Auditing to Support Cisco Routers and Switches
9. Aternity Named To Annual Top 10 List of Most Promising Startups
10. N-trig Offers Suite of Multi-Touch Solutions for Windows 7
Miscellaneous
11. XIV head Yanai named most influential figure in high tech
12. CNN’s ‘Hologram’ Shows How Far TV Has Come
14. ANALYSIS / Obama will star in Israel’s election campaigns
Caption: Panel discussion at the Ernst and Young and Globes Israel Journey ‘08, titled “Digital media – trends, developments and future outlook,” with moderator, Michael Eisenberg (far right). Panelists from right to left after Michael Eisenberg: Shmil Levy (Sequoia Capital), Tomer Ben-Kiki (Oberon Media), Guy Bauman (Pelephone Communication)Uri Shinar (aniBoom), Peter Hirshberg (Technorati).
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Is IncrediMail, IncrediFail?
Israeli email company, IncrediMail announced last week that Google has dropped the company from its AdSense program. According to TechCrunch, IncrediMail’s stock dropped 40% and lost about 1/3 of its value on the Nasdaq in direct response to the news. The reasons for Google’s suddenly ending the partnership is currently unknown, but IncrediMail may have “been dropped for fraud.”
Last month, Zack Miller of BloggingStocks.com interviewed IncrediMail founder and CEO, Yaron Adler. One of Zack’s questions for him was what the company’s business model was, to which Adler responded that the company relies heavily on viral marketing (though it is not the main means).
This is probably not the viral marketing that Adler had in mind.
It’s unlikely though that this is the end for IncrediMail and not just a relatively minor setback for it. Israeli VC Michael Eisenberg has an interesting take on this in a post on SeekingAlpha.com, as does Zack Miller’s buddy, Aaron Katsman, on BloggingStocks.com.
Companies in brief: 29 Israel-related technology headlines from the week of December 16, 2007
The week of December 16, 2007, was filled with new headlines related to the future of nanotechnology in Israel and abroad. Cleantech received its usual attention about investments, plans and government initiatives, and internationally, speculation of a recession in the U.S. and inflation continued. Check out these headlines and the rest of this week’s 29 Israel-related technology headlines below.
Cleantech:
Israel And The US Partner For Clean Energy
World Bank mulls financing Negev solar project
Evogene and Ormat subsidiary receive biodiesel grant
Ben-Eliezer offers plan to promote renewable energy
Israel Cleantech Ventures invests in Citrine Renewable Energy
Solar Market to reach $40 Billion in 5 Years
Investments and M&A:
Value of Israeli VC exits rises 30% in 2007
Don’t believe them: Brokers will tell you TASE stocks are a bargain. Here’s why they aren’t.
Noise control co Silentium raises $1.8m
Plenus invests $2.5m in Logia Content Development
Radcom raises $2.5m in PIPE offering
American VC funds favor Israel, China
CopperGate to be the 1st Israeli start-up to list on NASDAQ in 2008
Nanotechnology:
Israeli Nanotechnology companies have doubled since 2005
Yissum gives birth to biotechnology start up Nanolymf
Nanotechnology Companies Planning to Sell Shares
International:
South American trade block signs trade pact with Israel
Jim Rogers: US is in recession, the administration is lying
Your Taxes: Korea welcomes Israelis
China Less Willing to Be America’s Piggy Bank
Telecommunications:
Ericsson to equip Partner Communications with advanced 3G equipment
Breakthrough deal for Alvarion
Why The Internet Needs to Become a National Priority for Israel
Miscellaneous:
IBM Unveils Semantic Search For Corporate E-mail
Plexiglas-like DVD to hold 1TB of data
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