As reported in Globes.co.il: The reasons for a higher price are larger estimated natural gas reserves, greater chance of finding oil, and interest from Turkish buyers. Negotiations to sell 30% of Leviathan to Woodside Petroleum Ltd. for $1.25 billion will resume, following Monday’s High Court of Justice ruling on natural gas exports, industry sources believe. […]
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As reported in Globes: The acquisition will expand Amdocs’s Customer Experience Systems portfolio with geo-located network data. Amdocs Ltd. has acquired mobile network optimization software provider Actix International Ltd. for $120 million in cash. The acquisition will expand Amdocs’s CES (Customer Experience Systems) portfolio with geo-located network data that will drive a variety of optimization […]
As reported in Reuters and Globes: IBM, the world’s biggest technology services company, said on Thursday it has agreed to buy Trusteer, a company that helps businesses fight computer viruses and fraud. A person familiar with the matter said IBM was paying close to $1 billion for Trusteer, making it the company’s second-largest acquisition […]
As reported in Globes.co.il: The video ad platform developer has Israeli roots. It was founded by Amir Ashkenazi, and investors include Gemini Israel Ventures. AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) today announced the acquisition of video advertising platform Adap.tv Inc. for $405 million, including $322 million in cash and $83 million in AOL shares. Adap.tv will operate […]
As reported in Ynet: Study shows rates of preventable blindness in Israel may have been slashed in half over past decade. A new study published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology notes that the rates of preventable blindness in Israel have drastically lowered over the past decade – by more than half to be exact, […]
As reported in Globes: James Richardson won the tender to operate the duty free shops at Ben Gurion Airport for seven years. James Richardson Ltd. today won the Israel Airports Authority tender for the operation of duty-free shops at Ben Gurion Airport. Sources inform ”Globes” that the company won the tender with a bid of […]
Israeli startup Weissbeerger Ltd. has embarked on the path taken by mobile phones, television, and cars, and plans making the beer tap smart. The company’s product enables bars and pubs to save money, boost beer revenue, and to better manage the supply chain. Weissbeerger is a unique startup that offers an alcohol monitoring system. Its […]
As published inIsrael21C: “Kaptain Sunshine” Yosef Abramowitz — former journalist turned activist, turned solar-energy pioneer kibbutznik, turned “car salesman” as he puts it jokingly — is now steering bankrupt Better Place electric car charging network out of debt. Last week, Abramowitz and his partners –– about 900 Israeli electric vehicle owners and drivers, and investors […]
As reported in Bloomberg: Given Imaging, the Israeli company with a very strong presence in Australia has been approved in the Japanese market. Given Imaging Ltd. said Monday that regulators in Japan have approved its PillCam pill-sized diagnostic camera for use in diagnosing diseases of the colon. The Israeli company said the PillCam Colon is […]
The maker of a newly launched appetite suppressant gum claims to be the first to have self-affirmed GRAS status for hoodia in the US and hopes to overcome the negative image of the plant as a weight management ingredient. Desert Labs launched ‘Snack Less’ gum in October last year containing hoodia, a genus of 13 species […]
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