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| December 5, 2013
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New Startup from Israel Develops Wireless Mobile Chargers

Wi-Charge claims that their charging times can compete with that of wired chargers. Furthermore, there is also no electromagnetic or radio frequency radiation involved, adding to the user’s safety, Wi-Charge reports.

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Every cellphone owner has experienced the depressing moment when their battery dies at the most inconvenient of times.  Veteran Israeli entrepreneurs Victor Vaisleib and Ortal Alpert joined together to create a radical solution to charge a phone without a charger – using infrared light.

Wireless Charging Solution Provider - Wi-Charge YouTube screenshot

Israeli Wireless Charging Solution Provider – Wi-Charge YouTube screenshot

Founded in in 2010, the Wi-Charge group has been working to create a safe wireless power transmitter that allows clients to charge their devices, using infrared radiation. Continue Reading »

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| November 25, 2013
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Israeli agritech company improves crop harvests without genetic modification

The Israeli agritech firm Kaiima reports that it is developing a technology that will replicate natural processes to produce stronger, bigger plants for growing & hungry world.

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Israeli enterprise Kaiima believes it has found a way to improve crop harvests by replicating and accelerating a natural genetic phenomenon in the laboratory.

Wheat fields in Israel's Negev Desert.

Wheat fields in Israel’s Negev Desert. – Photo: Eliyahu Hershkovitz

The future of growing sturdier, sustainable crops for an increasingly hungry world is represented in their rice fields. Most plants evolve via a process called genome doubling, where over time, two species become one with a single genome comprising the strongest features of each parents. Continue Reading »

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| November 25, 2013
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Apple acquires Israeli start-up for $345 million

 

Founded in Tel Aviv by a group of ex-IDF gamers, PrimeSense specializes in 3D motion-sensing technology.

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The global technology giant Apple confirmed on Monday that it has acquired Israeli start-up PrimeSense in a deal valued at $345 million, Israel Radio reported.

Apple logo

Apple logo – Photo: REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

PrimeSense first made headlines after its 3D motion-sensing camera was used for Microsoft’s Kinect gaming system. It was founded in Tel Aviv by a team of twenty-something gaming enthusiasts who gained extensive technological know-how through their service at an elite military intelligence unit.

“We live in a world in which technology is becoming more and more sophisticated, with an array of applications and features which are complicated and tiresome for the consumer to use, like remote controls and buttons to push. Continue Reading »

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| November 17, 2013
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Apple acquires Israeli company in $345 million deal

The appeal for Apple is the company’s advanced body-movement tracking technology bringing 3D sensing & natural interaction such as in interactive living room and mobile devices.

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Israeli news and financial newspaper Calcalist reported Sunday that Apple has acquired PrimeSense, a motion-tracking company based in Tel Aviv, in a $345 million deal.

PrimeSense

Israeli Uzi Breier, employee of PrimeSense, uses his hands to control a screen in the company offices in Tel Aviv. Photo: Ariel Schalit

PrimeSense is best known for licensing the hardware design and chip used in Microsoft’s Kinect motion-sensing system for the Xbox 360 from 2010. Continue Reading »

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| November 12, 2013
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Israel invited as 1st non-EU member to nuclear research group CERN

Israeli nuclear scientists optimistic CERN, which proved the existence of the ‘God particle,’ will ultimately vote them in despite EU restrictions against Israel.

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The Star of David could join the 20 other flags of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, if the organization that runs the world’s largest particle physics lab votes Israel in.

CERN

The magnet core of the world’s largest superconducting solenoid magnet at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator. – Photo: AP

CERN’s governing council, made up of representatives from each member nation, meets on December 12. Continue Reading »

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| October 10, 2013
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iOS 7’s newest look is Israeli

Startup Any.do is the Israeli app that inspired Apple chief of design Jony Ive with its popular task-management app, the Verge reported online.

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The new look of the iOS 7, Apple’s newest mobile operating system, is being hotly debated all over the Internet and is attracting plenty of criticism, including claims that it overly resembles the Android operating system and that some of its special effects make users nauseated. But there is no doubt that the operating system’s new configuration constitutes a revolution in Apple’s traditional approach to design.

Screenshots of the iOS7.


Screenshots of the iOS7. – Photo: Reuters

Earlier this week, The Verge, an online tech magazine, revealed that the Israeli firm Any.do Continue Reading »

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| September 3, 2013
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Unlike EU leaders, Beijing businesses seeking products labeled ‘Made in Israel’ !!

Visiting Chinese trade executives praise Israel’s “world-class products” and want to see them being sold in China.

By NIV ELIS

 

 

 

The ubiquitous “Made in China” stamp that for years could be found on cheap manufactured goods in Israel and around the world is gradually giving way to a new economic reality.

JOHNSON LIU, deputy director-general of the China Foreign Trade Center, addresses Israelis in TA

JOHNSON LIU, deputy director-general of the China Foreign Trade Center, addresses Israelis in TA – Photo: Shlomi Mizrachi

On Monday, representatives from Canton Fair, China’s largest trade exhibition, met in Tel Aviv’s David Intercontinental Hotel and urged Israeli businesses to join the event in mid-October. But for the first time, they were not courting just importers to distribute Chinese goods to Israel; instead, they laid out the case for Israeli businesses to sell to China.

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| August 23, 2013
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Israeli among MIT’s top 35 global innovators under 35

 

 

At 26, Technion graduate Kira Radinsky, Ph.D., is on MIT’s list of the world’s 35 brightest young innovators. Others on list were Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg & Google founders Larry Page & Sergey Brin.

By Lior El-Chai

 

 

Dr. Kira Radinsky, 26, completed her Ph.D. this year at the Technion, and has already been selected from among hundreds of candidates and placed on the list of the world’s Top 35 Innovators Under 35 for “being an exceptional inventor and for her leading work in the area of programming.”

Dr. Kira Radinsky - Photo Technion Spokesperson's Office

Dr. Kira Radinsky – Photo: Technion Spokesperson’s Office

The list is put together by the MIT Technology Review. Continue Reading »

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| August 15, 2013
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Israeli data security firm acquired by IBM for as much as $1 billion

 

Trusteer & IBM announced that IBM has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Trusteer, a privately held Israeli security firm with locations in Boston, MA & Tel Aviv, Israel.

By JTA

 

JERUSALEM — IBM has agreed to acquire the Israeli data security firm Trusteer for an undisclosed sum that is believed to be up to $1 billion.

IBM. Trusteer. IBM to Acquire Trusteer to Help Companies Combat Financial Fraud and Advanced Security Threats

Trusteer, which has locations in Tel Aviv and Boston, develops software to help businesses protect themselves against financial fraud and security threats.

Upon the official closing of the deal, Trusteer will join the IBM Security Systems organization, IBM announced Thursday.

IBM, an American multinational technology and consulting corporation, is forming a cybersecurity software lab in Israel where Trusteer and IBM researchers will work on advanced software to address more complicated cyber threats.

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| July 4, 2013
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Samsung acquires Israeli startup Boxee

Israeli Startup, one of Israel’s most promising companies which develops streaming media devices and services, fails to recoup the $30 million invested in it.

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Samsung is buying Israeli start-up Boxee for tens of millions of dollars, but for less than the $30 million that was originally invested in the company.

The Boxee Box, powered by D-Link.

The Boxee Box, powered by D-Link. – Photo: Bloomberg / Haaretz Archive

Several weeks ago, Reuters’ news site VentureBeat reported that the startup, which develops streaming media devices and services, was looking for a buyer after a failed attempt to find new funding. Continue Reading »

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| June 20, 2013
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Op-Ed: Examples of U.S. gains from its Israel alliance

Washington will continue to benefit greatly from its alliance with the Jewish state, and by helping to ensure the U.S. maintains its global edge, Israel will continue to contribute to Americans’ lives & livelihoods, & to restoring the global economic competitiveness of the United States.

WASHINGTON (JTA) — When two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in April, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital found themselves well prepared for the aftermath.

David Pollock and Michael Eisenstadt

David Pollock and Michael Eisenstadt (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy)

Two years earlier, Israeli medical experts had helped update the hospital’s disaster response plan to deal with mass-casualty incidents.

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| June 15, 2013
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EXCLUSIVE: Stuxnet virus was out of control, Kaspersky had to reveal it

 

Get ready for Cyber Armageddon. In an exclusive interview, Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of one of the largest digital security firms in the world, lifts the veil on a shadowy world of internet espionage and sabotage: and it’s not a pretty sight

By Ilan Gattegno
Eugene Kaspersky, the founder and CEO of Kaspersky Labs, one of the largest digital security firms in the world, made an appearance earlier this week at the International Cyber Security Conference hosted by Tel Aviv University’s Yuval Ne’eman Workshop. Among the cyber-literate crowd, Kaspersky is a mega celebrity.

Eugene Kaspersky – Photo: KOKO

Everyone in the industry is eager to hear what he has to say.

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| June 11, 2013
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It’s Official! Google announces acquisition of Israeli app Waze

World Record paid for app.  Acquisition comes after speculation involving Facebook & Apple. Google says Waze remains in Israel.

Netanyahu calls to congratulate owners and thanks them for their ‘contribution’ to putting Israel on the map and the future taxes they’ll be adding to the country’s treasury.

By NIV ELIS

 

 

 

Google and Waze on Tuesday announced that the search giant had purchased the Israeli traffic app, but did not specify the sum of the deal.”[Google’s leaders] share our vision of a global mapping service, updated in real time by local communities, and wish to help us accelerate,” Waze CEO Noam Bardin wrote in a post on the company’s site.
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| June 11, 2013
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Israel to receive about $55 million in taxes from the $1.1 billion Waze deal

 

Since most of Waze’s stockholders are foreign residents they are not obligated to pay taxes in Israel.

WATCH: Ilan Gattegno breaks the deal down.

By Ilan Gattegno, Zeev Klein, Reuters & Israel Hayom Staff

 

The government is expected to receive only about 200 million shekels ($55 million) in taxes from the reported $1.3 billion acquisition deal signed between Google and the Waze traffic and navigation app. While the final amount of the tax payment will depend on the ultimate structure of the deal, most of the Israeli startup company’s stockholders are foreign residents who are notobligated to pay taxes in Israel.

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| February 27, 2013
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Israeli navigator Waze beats out all other contenders for 2012 app ‘Oscar’ prize

Waze benefited from Apple’s iOS-6 mobile map operating system flaws last year with Waze reporting that 36 million drivers used the app in 2012 to help them drive nearly 10 billion kilometers.

 

Waze, the Israeli-developed free mobile navigation app, won the Mobile World Congress Judges’ Choice award this week for best overall mobile application, beating out major players like the file-hosting service Dropbox, the personalized news magazine Flipboard and the electronic payment service Square.

Waze 

 

“This is a huge win for our community — thanks Wazers, for making us number 1!” the company said on its Facebook page. Continue Reading »

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