On a dusty path on Kibbutz Ketura, one of the sunniest spots in Israel, there was cause for celebration this past World Environment Day, June 5. On that day, the Israeli company Arava Power marked an historic event for Israel, the solar energy industry and the environment. It took five years to get the permits […]
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Guinness judge Rob Mollow who came to Israel to crown the company: Babylon is following in the footsteps of Firefox and Facebook. Online translation company Babylon Ltd. today claims to have broken the Guinness record for downloads for language solutions. Guinness judges arrived in Israel to crown the company. Guinness judge Rob Mollow said, “This […]
Digital media, IT, and mobile start-ups are participating in the Boston and New York road trip to meet potential investors and high-tech industrialists. 15 digital media, IT, and mobile start-ups are participating in Bootcamp Ventures’ Israel Innovation: Boston & New York Road Trip to meet potential investors and high-tech industrialists. Bootcamp Ventures is a start-up […]
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As reported in israel 21c: The Weizmann Institute of Science has once again been named “best place to work in academia” in The Scientist magazine’s annual survey. Weizmann is the only Israeli research center on the magazine’s Top 10 international academic institutions. The Rehovot institute regularly ranks among the top five non-US institutions, and has […]
As reported in IVC: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development report on entrepreneurship finds that while Israel ranks poorly in terms of bureaucratic obstacles, venture capital is relatively easy to obtain there. If Israel is a start-up nation, then it has achieved that status despite the bureaucratic obstacles facing entrepreneurs, according to an OECD report […]
As reported in IVC: The Approved Projects Involve Innovations in the Areas of Life Sciences, Healthcare IT, Electronics, Software and Energy During its meeting last week, held in Washington, D.C., the Board of Governors of the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation, approved $8.1 million of funding for nine new projects between Israeli […]
As reported in Israel 21c: One of the hottest developments in computer-human interaction is the emergence of touch-free, gesture-control technology – an area where Israel is a world leader. And it’s not only about iPhones and iPads. Herzliya-based eyeSight Technology is developing ways for users to control all manner of devices without pressing buttons or […]
As reported in Globes: Israel Chemicals Ltd. (TASE: ICL) unit, ICL Fertilizers, will sell potash to its Chinese customers at $470 a ton, $70 a ton higher than prices to China during the first half of 2011. Under the terms of the current contract, 500,000 tons will be delivered in the second half of 2011 […]
As reported in port2port: The agreement aims to implement Israeli technologies in China’s strategic development.According to Israeli statistics, the country’s exports to Asia increased by 45% last year Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor signed last week a MOU agreement with China’s National Development and Reform Commission during NDRC’s vice chairman, Zhang Xiaoqiang, visit […]
General Electric will open a multidisciplinary R&D center in Israel, its eighth R&D center in the country, at an investment of $3-5 million. The R&D center, which will be located in Haifa, will engage in research in water technologies, renewable energy and medical devices. “With the establishment of the new R&D center, we will be […]
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