Catch Media and 10 Israel-related Headlines, Week of February 14, 2010
Filed under: Cleantech, Company Briefs, Environment, Information Technology, Mobile Web, VC, Web2.0, cloud computing
(Catch Media interview from 2007)
During the week of February 14, 2010, the Eilat-Eilot International Renewable Energy Conference took place and included the announcement of potential plans for joint solar energy projects between Israel, Egypt and Jordan. News broke that Google is in early talks to acquire Israel’s Catch Media to better compete with iTunes and Tawkon announced its solution for avoiding radiation from mobile phones. For these stories and more, check out this week’s Israel-related technology headlines below.
Cleantech
1. Israel’s Solar Industry Aims to Regain its Edge
2. Israel, Egypt Considering Joint Solar Energy Project in Sinai
Investment and M&A
3. Google Wants To Buy Catch Media To Make Android Better
4. JVP’s Erel Margalit Tells Startups: “We Do Early Stage Now!”
Information Technology
5. Augmented Reality Gets a Major Face.com Lift
6. Tawkon enables mobile users to avoid mobile phone radiation without affecting phone usage
7. Comverse enables visual voicemail services on Sony Ericsson handsets for Norway’s NetCom
Miscellaneous
8. Unleavened Media: 10 Israeli mobile companies to watch in 2010
9. IPad Launch Has Halo Effect On Apple Products, Laptops
10. Aniboom and Sesame Street Partner on Animation Contest
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
BrightSource breaks ground for first solar-powered oil field
According to The New York Times environment blog,
“BrightSource Energy has broken ground on a 29-megawatt solar steam plant at a Chevron oil field in Coalinga, Calif.”
The move is a great for both companies. For Chevron, which, along with competitors BP and StatoilHydro, is an investor,
“a solar power plant builder based in Oakland, Calif., and solar-powered oil extraction offers the oil giant an opportunity to reduce its carbon footprint while gaining a hedge against volatile natural gas prices.”
While, BrightSource, which has signed other significant contracts in California this year, will have the chance “to scale up its technology” and “explore new applications for its technology.”
It’s important to note that the field won’t be powered by solar steam exclusively. As it only works when the sun is out, the field will still use rely on previous sources for power at other times.
SaaS and 10 Israel-related Headlines, Week of August 2, 2009
Filed under: Cleantech, Environment, Information Technology, SaaS, Uncategorized, VC, Web2.0
During the week of August 2, 2009, it was announced that Shari Arison’s group Shikun u’Binui Real Estate Ltd. will install solar energy panels on the roofs of its projects under construction. VC investment is at it’s lowest in a decade and Panaya is providing software service for automating on-premise SAP upgrade. For these stories and more, check out this week’s 10 headlines below.
Cleantech
1. Israel’s Clean Tech Industry: A Broad Brush Overview
2. Arison unit to install solar panels on new projects
3. eSolar Shows Off Its Solar Thermal Tower
Investment
4. MoneyTree: VC investment lowest in decade
5. WeFi’s Directory Nearly 30 Million WiFi Hotspots Strong, Raises More Funding
Information Technology
6. Researchers hijack computer software update process
7. Panaya’s SaaS Helps On-Premise SAP
8. Waze: social navigation app for your phone
Miscellaneous
9. Employees’ Faith in a Company Can Boost Productivity
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