AFCV Holdings, a unit of private equity firm Summit Partners, bought Answers Corporation’s community-generated Q&A site Answers.com for $127 million in cash. The web answers search engine, one of the world’s leading Q&A sites with 5.5 million registered members as of November 2010, was established in 1999 and recently hit its 10 million answers. Summit […]
As reported in Israel21C: “It is amazing to be here, in this place,” say the men, who were invited on a Pilgrimage of Thanks following their 68-day ordeal trapped underground. It was dubbed a “Pilgrimage of Thanks,” as 25 of the 31 Chilean miners rescued from a collapsed mine last October traveled to Israel for an […]
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Green Buildings Breakfast – Presentations
Many efficiency related technologies evolved from pioneering research and development efforts of Israel’s high-tech and military sectors. As cleantech grows to become a more prominent sector locally and globally, Israel’s entrepreneurs will increasingly harness agriculture, high-tech and other cross-over technology to increase efficiency across a wide spectrum of industries, and continue to place Israel as […]
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Dance for the Dead Sea
As reported in Israel21C: Israeli choreographer-dancer Ido Tadmor has given an artistic boost for the Dead Sea campaign as this unique site competes in the finals of the New7Wonders of Nature contest. Tadmor took inspiration from the Dead Sea and filmed his dance piece at the Kalya Beach. “The Dead Sea is my favorite spot in […]
Israel’s economy grew 7.8% in the fourth quarter of 2010, the fastest pace in four years, and well beyond the Bank of Israel’s predictions of between 4.3 and 4.6 percent. Growth in the fourth quarter was mainly driven by private consumption and investments. Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics also reported a higher-than-expected annual growth […]
‘Pilgrimage of Thanks’ brings the formerly trapped men to religious sites of Israel as well as tourist spots and a meeting with the president. After two months trapped underground in a collapsed mine as the world looked on in horror, 25 of the 33 rescued Chilean miners accepted the gift of a trip to Israel. […]
Boardroom Breakfast Briefing by Chief Scientist of the Israel Ministry of Science & Technology and NSW Chief Scientist. We invite you to learn more from both Professors’ experiences in helping commercialize products that originated as academic IP into flourishing companies.
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TWO Israeli companies are combining their technologies and expertise to change the face of horticultural production in Australia. Specialist water soluble fertiliser supplier, Haifa, and irrigation equipment company, Netafim, are working with numerous distributors and growers across the country to introduce new methods of fertilising using their products. They are particularly promoting the practice of […]
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Clouds in the IT forecast
Israeli ‘cloud computing’ solutions such as CloudShare and Gizmox are helping to propel a massive worldwide move to virtual information technology services. A cloud has descended on the computing world – and in that cloud, the lion’s share of the applications we work with, and even the data we produce, eventually will reside. As the […]
