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  • Streaming Giant Netflix Comes to Israel

    ISRAEL, 2016/02/14 The online streaming website Netflix announced on Wednesday that it was expanding its availability to 130 additional nations, inclunding Israel, causing millions in the country to rejoice as the long-awaited service finally arrived. Before available in only 60 nations worldwide, Netflix, the world’s leading streaming site with 70 million subscribers, was launched in the US in 2007 and expanded to Canada, Latin America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, leaving most of the world without access.

  • Microsoft Buys Israeli Cybersecurity Startup

    ISRAEL, 2015/09/29 Microsoft said Tuesday it bought an Israel-based cybersecurity startup specializing in defending programs and content in the cloud, as it expands offerings for the enterprise. Microsoft did not disclose how much it paid for Adallom, but the website TechCrunch put the purchase price at $250 million. The acquisition comes as Microsoft responds to the trend toward cloud-based computing, in which data or software is accessed remotely over the Internet. Microsoft built its revenue selling packaged programs such as its widely used Office software for business or home computers, but the tech giant is shifting to offering that software through cloud-based subscriptions.

  • A departure flight board displays various canceled and delayed flights in Ben-Gurion International Airport

    ISRAEL, 2015/07/30 The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has signed an agreement with Tel Aviv University under which a new joint center for innovation in aviation will be established in order to develop technologies to protect airline reservations systems, authentication for security purposes, and financial systems, inclunding to develop ways to run airlines additional efficiently using large data and advanced intelligence. Two weeks ago, the New York Stock Exchange was shut down for nearly four hours for still-unexplained reasons – possibly, according to some experts, due to hacker activities. That incident generated headlines all over the world, but there was a second unexplained outage as well on July 8 – the grounding of all flights by United Airlines for nearly an hour. Was it due to hacking? A United Airlines official said there was “no indication that this was caused by an outside entity,” but it wasn’t the initial time United – or flights by other airlines – were grounded for “unexplained” reasons.

  • Jabbour, founder and CEO of start-up Edunation, meets with his team at their offices in Nazareth

    ISRAEL, 2015/06/06 Israel's Arab minority is seeking its share of high-tech success in a "start-up country", a quest that has by presently turned Jesus's boyhood town of Nazareth into an incubator for innovation. But scarce funding, long-entrenched discrimination and the disadvantage, in Israel, of not serving in its military are all obstacles the Arab community faces in breaking new ground. Over the completed decade about 7,000 tech companies have been founded in Israel, where high-tech goods and services account for 12.5 % of gross domestic product.

  • How Israel became a social gaming hub

    ISRAEL, 2015/06/06 At one time, gaming innovators and enthusiasts journeyed to California’s Silicon Valley to devise their technological visions of the next. Presently, the tide is shifting to Israel. Currently, the country of 7.7 million people boasts additional than 200 game companies and hundreds of tech companies, according to Invest in Israel. By 2013, 70 % of the fastest- growing gaming companies on Facebook were in Europe. Half of the top 10 are based in Israel, and according to the Israeli Ministry of Economy, the country’s gaming industry is estimated to be worth up to 2.5 billion shekels ($730 million).

  • Israeli mobile phone operator Cellcom will offer a package of television

    ISRAEL, 2015/05/14 Israeli mobile phone operator Cellcom will offer a package of television, home phone and internet services as it seeks new revenue streams in the face of a fiercely competitive mobile phone market. Cellcom Chairman Ami Erel said that cellular companies have been forced to develop increase strategies in other markets to counter squeezed profitability in mobile, where the Israeli government has created a wholesale market to lower prices. The new wholesale market, in which Bezeq Israel Telecom is forced to lease its infrastructure to competitors, will be fully opened to internet and landline phone services on May 17.

  • ‘3D Print’ Your Own Personalized Foods With ‘The Genie’!

    ISRAEL, 2015/05/03 Have you ever had a sudden craving for a particular treat without any way to get it? Or perhaps a cake that could be ready in just one minute, with no preparation necessary? A new kind of food processing machine, called the Genie – inspired by Star Trek’s sci-fi “replicator” which was used to make instant meals on the show – has brought this once futuristic concept out of television and into reality. Presently, personalized foods can be made with the press of a button, giving everyone the choice of their own meal – at the same time as they want it. Following a night of seemingly endless work and a hungry staff at White Innovation, an Israeli company that engineers products for other businesses, founders Doron Marco and Ayelet Carasso found themselves sitting around their office table with blank stomachs, tired of ordering out or preparing their own food night next night. Next about 90 minutes of brainstorming and discussing part their eight staffers, the inspiration behind the Genie was born. “At initial, the product was for ourselves, but other companies loved it,”

  • Israeli app pushes iPad closer to medical-device territory

    ISRAEL, 2015/04/04 An app by Israeli health-tech firm Voyant, to help doctors plan hip replacement on mobile devices, was granted FDA approval this week as a Class II medical device (requiring regulatory controls to provide reasonable assurance of the device’s safety and effectiveness). With this app, doctors can import images from fasten hospital networks, insert digital implant images to determine the best surgery techniques for each case, visualize an operation, and use the resulting data for review or consultation. In a statement, Marc Mackey, general manager of orthopedics at German firm BrainLab, which acquired Voyant in 2001, said that Voyant’s TraumaCad platform, in use on desktops for over a decade, is very popular part surgeons, and “with the mobile version of TraumaCad, digital templating can presently be accessed from any web browser or iPad, enabling surgeons to be additional productive while as well providing access to data for better inventory management.”

  • It’s official: The Internet revolution has reached Israel.

    ISRAEL, 2014/12/17 It’s official: The Internet revolution has reached Israel. The Second Annual Internet of Things (IoT) Conference, which took place in Tel Aviv last week, featured any and each gadget, mobile device or sensor that can connect you to the Internet. People are saying that there will be additional than 50 billion Internet products available by 2025 and that each single aspect of our lives will be affected by Internet usage. Just as smart navigation systems have become an integral part of our lives today, someday there will as well be smart cities, and the collection and management of data will rely completely on cloud computing. IoT Israel 2014, which was organized by Eran Wagner, a general partner at Gemini, featured a variety of speakers, inclunding Shmuel (Mooly) Eden, senior vice president of Intel and president of Intel Israel; Dr. Joachim Schaper, vice president R&D at AGT; Eran Sandhaus of Qualcomm; Dr. Guy Hoffman of the IDC Media Innovation Lab at IDC Herzliya; and Dr. Andre Schiele, founder of the European Space Agencies. Hundreds of Israelis who work in software and hardware attended the conference.

  • Investor enthusiasm for Israeli tech.

    ISRAEL, 2014/08/13 The news from Gaza has not tempered investor enthusiasm for Israeli tech. In its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, driver safety tech firm MobilEye raised nearly a billion dollars in its initial public offering on Friday. Priced at $25 at the opening bell, clamoring investors drove share prices up to as much as $39.40 at one point. Shares closed Friday at $37, 48% higher than their initial asking price. It was the major Israeli IPO in the US ever, eclipsing that of Partner Communications’ $525 million IPO in 1999. According to analysts, the $890 million raised by MobilEye gives the company a valuation of over $7.5 billion.
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