As reported in IVC: Intel Israel Ltd. is to recruit 1,000 new employees in 2011 to develop and produce 22 nanometer technology. Intel Israel currently has 7,057 employees and general manager Maxine Fassberg said that the company indirectly employs an additional 20,000 people. Intel Israel exported $2.7 billion in 2010, down from $3.4 billion in […]
Author: Jeremy Ungar
As reported by the Israel Diamond Portal: Avi Paz, President of the Israel Diamond Exchange and the World Federation of Diamond Bourses, granted the Israel Diamond Institute an exclusive interview to discuss developments in the local diamond sector. IDI: How was the year 2010 for the Israeli diamond sector? Avi Paz: 2010 was a year […]
Funding to accelerate Covertix plan to further expand its global reach and enter the European market Covertix, a provider of Information Rights Management (IRM) solutions for sensitive data file-level protection and control, today announced that the company has secured strategic investment from Kima Ventures. The funding will be used by Covertix to enter the […]
As reported by the Sydney Morning Herald: A banking executive lamented to me the challenges of retaining Gen Y employees. A graduate had resigned after a mere three months with the company and explained his departure in terms of not having received the one-on-one training he had expected from the CEO. This executive is not […]
“Connecting to Israel is part of our way to be on top of technological creativity and innovation, and only in doing so will we be able to progress” – Heiner Markhoff, president & chief executive, GE Water & Process Technologies. Kinrot Ventures, the world’s first fully-dedicated water technology incubator, and General Electric (GE) recently signed […]
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Raising fish in the desert
As reported in Israel21c “There’s plenty of fish in the sea,” the old saying goes – but that’s not as true as it once was. In fact, says Dotan Bar-Noy, CEO of Israel’s GFA (Grow Fish Anywhere) Advanced Systems, there are fewer fish in the sea with each passing year. “Overfishing is a much bigger […]
As recently seen in the Invest in Australia Annual Magazine: Israel is a small country renowned for its entrepreneurial sprit, enabling it to quickly transform start-up companies into profitable and competitive companies. This is evident by the fact that apart from Silicon Valley, the highest concentration of high-tech companies in the world is found in Israel. […]
As reported in Israel21C With obesity and diabetes rates rising in the western world, and most of us steadily losing the “battle of the bulge,” an Israeli researcher has a new computer method for analyzing fat, which may lead to more effective weight loss programs, and also to new treatments for diabetes. Prof. Amit Gefen […]
Guidewire Group listed five Israeli firms among its rankings of the world’s 100 most outstanding and fast-moving start-up companies. The companies in order of ranking are: Waze, Conceptic, Sparkeo, The Gifts Project, and IDU Biometrics. Placement on the list was determined by a combination of the company’s G/SCORE assessment, stage and pace of growth, and […]
Two Israeli start-ups, WinFlex, a wind-energy company, and GridON, which outfits electric grids, were among the five winners of the GE Ecomagination Challenge. Selected out of more than 4,000 entries from around the globe, each winner received $100,000 to further develop their ideas, which had to fall into three broad categories: Renewables, Grid and […]
