An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but not if your apple is covered in bacterial biofilm, a potentially chronic illness-causing bacteria that sticks to produce and packaging in the shipping process. Now a graduate student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has discovered a way to attack the potentially harmful bacteria that sticks to food […]
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BioCatch, an Israeli cyber-security start-up with a system that ferrets out hackers by checking how they move their mouse, said Tuesday that it raised $10 million in Series A financing. Blumberg Capital and Israeli crowdfunding VC firm OurCrowd led the round. “Online finance and banking sites, among others, require users to enter names and passwords to gain access, […]
Israeli start-up, LiveU, is gearing up to deliver television-quality video of World Cup coverage via cellular connections to broadcast centers and the Internet, using a network of 200 of the firm’s mini-broadcast boxes, devices about half the size of a laptop. Over 30 international broadcasters are scheduled to beam the games from stadiums in the 12 host cities across […]
Israel Ministry of Finance Press Release Minister of Finance Yair Lapid: “The decision to reaffirm Israel’s ‘A’ credit rating reflects yet another mark of trust in the Israeli market and in the economic policy that the Ministry of Finance is leading” The credit rating agency, Fitch, has reaffirmed Israel’s ‘A’ credit rating and has left […]
Israel signed an agreement with the European Union on Sunday that opens the way for billions of dollars in funding for scientific research and innovation. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso attended the ceremony in Jerusalem where EU Ambassador to Israel, Lars Faaborg-Andersen, and Israel’s Science, Technology and Space Minister, […]
The US-Israel Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation (BIRD), which has been fostering collaborations between Israeli and American companies since 1977, has some significant new energy sector partnerships under its wing. Five years ago, the BIRD Foundation launched BIRD Energy, a special initiative connecting America’s Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and […]
Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) and Microsoft Ventures today announced the establishment of an accelerator for cyber technologies. The program will operate at Microsoft Israel’s offices in Herzliya. The start-ups selected for the four-month program will receive advice and assistance from industry executives and have the use of physical infrastructures and technology for free. The joint […]
The Mission is scheduled, Sunday, 18 May – Saturday, 24 May, 2014 and will focus on Israel’s technological excellence, biomedical advances, venture capital and entrepreneurial society, innovative culture and extraordinary start-up environment. This Mission will coincide with the Israel Innovation Conference (MIXiii) – the first in the world where Biomed, High-tech and the Office of […]
Argo Medical Technologies, who produce the ReWalk exoskeleton which allows paraplegics to stand, walk and go up and down stairs has been in Australia and New Zealand this week, and has received a lot of media coverage. Argo is in this part of the world looking for a distributor for their amazing technology. Media Stories […]
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