Israel Innovation 2.0

During the week of April 11, 2010, Arava Power announced a major investment plan for 15 Israeli solar fields. Israeli start-ups are still facing a hard time raising funds in Israel and Israeli researchers have developed a way to secure online data using laser technology. For these stories and more, check below for this week’s headlines.

Cleantech
1. Charged Environment

2. Arava Power Will Invest $535 Million in 15 Israeli Solar Fields

Investment
3. Bitesize Friday – Israeli Funding Recap

4. Israel’s Infinity expanding China investment fund

5. Israeli start-ups face funding crunch at home, turn to US and European investors

Information Technology
6. Total security for online data

7. Clarizen Growing SaaS Work, Project Management Channel

8. WeFi for Android Gets Enhanced Maps and Location Support

Miscellaneous
9. Israeli Team Snags Top Robotics Award for Second Consecutive Year

10. Where hi-tech startups meet the economy

Two big deals were announced during the week of February 8, 2009. Solar energy company BrightSource inked the largest solar energy deal ever that will help power Southern California, while Web 2.0 news and blog recommendation engine, Outbrain raised an impressive $12 million. Google Israel announced that it will be restructuring and Dell introduced the Latitude XT2 Multitouch Tablet, its latest laptop to use N-Trig’s multitouch technology. For these stories and more, check out this week’s 16 Israel-related headlines below.

Cleantech
1. BrightSource Inks 1.3GW SoCal Edison Deal

2. Lamar Testing Solar-Powered Digital Billboards

3. Crisis Bodes Well For Electric Cars

4. Israeli Solar Company AORA Raises $5 Million

Investments
5. Israel’s Pontis gets $19.65 mln in equity financing

6. Outbrain, the news story recommendation service, gets $12M

Information Technology
7. Dell Intros Latitude XT2 Multitouch Tablet

8. Google Israel restructures

9. Startup Neocleus building bare-metal desktop hypervisor 

10. Industry’s Only Clientless Endpoint Security Management Solution

11. Acronova’s Entry Level DVD-R Duplication System Now Shipped with TrusCont Copy Protection System

Telecom/Mobile
12. Modu unveil modular cellphone jackets, promise big MWC launch news

13. Apps the new battlefield for mobile industry (Nexperience)  

14. Having Text? Cell Phone Users Are Cheating on Their Partners

Miscellaneous
15. How Social Media War Was Waged in Gaza-Israel Conflict

16. ‘Waltz with Bashir’ named WGA’s ‘best documentary’

Cleantech news from Israel is heating up as Israel’s first solar farm became functional and an Israel Corp investment of $10 million into solar power company HelioFocus was announced during the week of August 24, 2008. Software optimizer, Replay Solutions received an $11 million investment and Aternity Inc announced its strategic partnership with Ness Technologies. The clothing design process is about to get revolutionized with Optitex software that “replicates fabrics so realistically that clothing designers can see what fashions will look and act like on people before garments are made.” For these full stories and more, check below for the 14 Israel-related technology headlines from the week of August 24, 2008

Cleantech
Israel says hi to hybrids

Israel’s first solar power station up and running in Negev

Israel ‘on verge of becoming world leader in cleantech’

M&A and Investments
Israel Corp unit invests $10m in solar power co HelioFocus

Jasmine Holdco Submits Request to Aladdin Knowledge Systems to Call Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders

Aladdin to Vector: Access Denied for $13 a Share

Replay Solutions Receives $11 Million Investment From Sigma Partners, Hummer Winblad and Partech International

Information Technology
Japan’s Fuji Television Network Selects Imperva for Database Monitoring and J-SOX Compliance

WorkLight: Bringing Enterprise 2.0 to a Widget Near You

Breaking News: Aternity and Ness Technologies Form Strategic Partnership

adCore™ Announces Full Yahoo! Search API Implementation

Miscellaneous
Robo-skeleton lets paralysed walk

A Boom in Israel’s Exports to India

Eyes turn to dawn of ‘visual computing’

About the author: Lisa Damast is the Membership Manager of ebizQ.net and currently resides in Israel. Any questions or inquiries regarding this blog or ebizQ membership services can be directed to her via email at ldamast (at) ebizq (dot) net. She can also be followed on Twitter, where she covers additional Israeli technology companies and Israel-related headlines and topics.

*About the Weekly Headlines image: The Star of David in the image was found on Flickr and is used under the Creative Commons license. It was originally uploaded by Flickr member, zeevveez. The overall Weekly Headlines image was designed by Lisa Damast.