As reported in Globes: The US livestock ID leader is acquiring the Netanya based dairy herd specialist. Allflex Group, a global leader in animal identification systems, has acquired Netanya based SCR for $250 million. SCR, founded in 1976, manufactures and markets advanced monitoring systems for cows and milk production and innovative solutions for management of […]
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As published in No Camels: The popularity of craft beer and microbreweries has exploded in recent years, and Israel is not missing out on the craze. Craft breweries, a trend which actually began in the 1980s, are marked by their independence, local character, smaller scale and brewing capacity. With beer aficionados acquiring increasingly refined tastes […]
As reported in Jewsnews: The $7 device is loaded with Google’s Android 4.4 operating system. Plug it into the USB port of any old laptop or desktop, and you’ve got a personal computer. If you can put data on a USB drive, why not put an entire operating system on a stick? It’s a simple […]
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An Outbrain IPO in the works
If there’s one Israeli company whose work you would be familiar with, it is that of Outbrain. A content recommendation company, they are the ones that provide the ‘recommended for you’ articles at the bottom of news sites, including some sponsored ads. Outbrain has recently filed confidentially with the U.S. Securities and Exchange commission for […]
Every night, nearly a hundred robots come to life in the arid desert of southern Israel and get busy cleaning rows and rows of solar panels. The robots are designed by startup Ecoppia as an alternative to the conventional, but also labor-intensive, method of sending human workers to hose and wipe down panels manually or use […]
3D printer maker, 3D Systems, recently acquired Israeli company Cimatron Ltd for $8.97 a share. The total transaction is valued at $97 million, inclusive of its net cash. Cimatron is a leading provider in 3D CAD/CAM software products for manufacturing. These are increasingly being used by a companies around the world for their 3D production […]
This November, Israel signed an agreement to join a cleantech common market of 41 countries which among other things, stipulates cancelling taxes on environmentally-friendly products. Meanwhile earlier this year, Israel was named as the world’s top innovator in the field of clean technologies by the Global Cleantech 100 Index, topping 40 other countries. All of […]
Tel Aviv receives international recognition while winning the first prize in the World Smart Cities Award at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona. 250 cities competed in the competition. The Smart City Expo World Congress is considered the leading conference in the world of city innovation. Tel Aviv is hosting an extraordinary booth […]
Microsoft confirmed that it is acquiring Israeli cyber security startup Aorato in a deal reportedly worth $200M. Aorato’s focus is on enterprise services in the cloud and in hybrid on-premise and cloud environments, using machine learning to detect suspicious patterns. Microsoft Corporate Vice President Cloud and Enterprise Marketing Takeshi Numoto said on his blog today, “I’m […]
Internet company Wix.com ltd has announced their plan to broadcast an advertisement during the television broadcast of the 2015 finals of the National Football League. They will be the second Israeli company after SodaStream to broadcast over the Super Bowl. At $4.5 million per 30-second spot, a Super Bowl advertisement doesn’t come cheap. Wix Vice […]
