As reported in IVC: The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and National Committee on Robotics and Automation recently organized a mission to Israel with the purpose of strengthening Indo-Israeli collaboration on robotics and automation. During the mission, an Expression of Interest was signed between Chairman of CII National Committee on Robotics Mr. Deep Kapuria and […]
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As reported in IVC: The following are the findings of the IVC-KPMG Quarterly Survey conducted by the IVC Research Center in cooperation with KPMG Somekh Chaikin Israel . This survey reviews venture capital investments by Israeli venture capital funds, foreign and other investors., based on reports from 125 investors, of which 42 are Israeli management […]
McCann Erikson Worldwide Inc. has invested $4 million in TheTime , a new media investment firm founded by Ilan Shiloach and Nir Tarlovski . Shiloach is also the chairman of McCann Erikson Israel Ltd. The investment was made at a company value of $30 million for TheTime, which will use the money for follow-on investments […]
Morflora, focused on innovative non-transgenic trait delivery technology for plant protection and enhancement, has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring’s Top 100 Europe Award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from the European business region. The nominees are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial […]
As reported in Israel21c: At 91, Prof. Nathan Citri offers no advice on how to achieve longevity. That he’s made it this far — with a mind so sharp he is still inventing innovative medical diagnostic kits — may be thanks to long walks or good genes. He cannot know for sure, since the […]
A multi-million dollar Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) is to be opened in the central Israeli city of Raanana. The globally-spread MTC initiative serves primarily for IT infrastructure sales, whose target buyers are medium- and large-sized companies. The centers’ engineers set up complete IT groundwork for its clients – including operating, virtualization and data systems, e-mail […]
As reported in Globes: Can-Fite BioPharma Ltd. (TASE:CFBI) US subsidiary OpththaliX Inc. (Bulletin Board: OPLI), which handles the company’s ophthalmic drug development operations, today announced success in the preclinical trial of CF101 for the treatment of anterior uveitis, an inflammation of the uvea, the middle layer of the eye which can result in blindness. The […]
BGN Technologies, Ben Gurion University’s technology transfer company, has signed a licensing agreement for its V-Smart drug delivery technology with New York’s Lauren Sciences LLC. Lauren will develop the technology as a platform for treating central nervous system diseases, including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, and brain malignancies. The V-Smart technology pinpoints where the drug […]
Landa Corporation has announced a major breakthrough in digital printing based on nanotechnology. The process uses tiny pigment water-based particles that are only tens of nanometers in size (a human hair is about 100,000 nanometers wide), and can print on almost any material. The technology will be unveiled officially at the Drupa Print Media Fair […]
OridionSytems,Ltd. (SWX: ORIDN) an Israeli manufacturer of capnography respiratory monitors and modules was bought by Ireland’s Covidienplc.(NYSE: COV) for $346 million in cash. Following the acquisition, the company will become part of Covidien’s oximetry and monitoring product line. Oridion is Covidien’s second Israeli acquisition within less than a month, following the acquisition of pulmonary endoscope developer superDimension […]
