This is Ormat’s third project in New Zealand announced in the past few months. Ormat Industries Ltd. US subsidiary Ormat Technologies Inc. has signed a 45-megawatt BOT (Build, Operate and Transfer) agreement with New Zealand’s Tikitere Geothermal Power Ltd. (TGL) to build and operate a a geothermal power plant in the Tikitere geothermal area near […]
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As reported in IVC: Beginning today, the company’s American Depository Shares are listed on the Bulletin Board under the ticker “HADSY”. Hadasit Bio Holdings Ltd. (TASE:HDST), the biotech arm of Hadasit – the Technology Transfer Company of Hadassah Medical Organization yesterday obtained permission from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to list on Nasdaq. […]
As reported in Israel 21C: Israeli startup Breezy has developed a patented mint candy to keep breath fresh for up to four hours, with the help of microcapsules that gently clean the tongue. Those old mouthwash commercials had it right: Bad breath, as clichéd as it sounds, really is a big problem. If it weren’t, […]
As reported in Israel 21c: A two-year-old Israeli company is pairing electrodes with living neurons in the eye to create bionic sight for the vision impaired, in a nanotech development that sounds more like science fiction, than real life. Nano Retina, operating since 2009 in Herzliya, is now manufacturing an R&D prototype of the development. […]
As reported in Globes: Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: TEVA; TASE: TEVA) has signed a $4 billion credit with a banking syndicate to finance its $6.8 billion acquisition of Cephalon Inc. (Nasdaq: CEPH). HSBC Holding plc (LSE: HSBA; HKSE: 005; NYSE, Paris: HBC) is heading the syndicate of European, US, Canadian, and Israeli banks, which […]
As repprted in Globes: The Defense Industries Report for 2010 released today by Hemda Mark, economic advisor to the Ministry of Defense, reveals that sales by Israeli defense companies in 2010 totaled $9.6 billion, 3% more than in 2009. Most of the sales are accounted for by Israel’s four biggest defense companies, Israel Aerospace Industries […]
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Raising fish in a barrel
An Israeli innovation for raising seafood anywhere – including the desert – could be the answer to the world’s growing problem of over fishing and water shortages. “Our technology is totally independent of the sea,” says Dr. Yossi Tal of Israel’s Grow Fish Anywhere (http://growfishanywhere.com ), a company that invented a way to raise fish […]
LogNet Systems recognized for its innovative approach to customer management and billing solutions in multiple service environments LogNet Systems, a global provider of customer management and billing solutions for multiple play service providers, today announced that the company has been recognized by Stratecast, a division of Frost & Sullivan, for its approach to help service providers […]
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Let Peace Begin with Water
As reported in Israel21C: Named a Hero of the Environment by TIME magazine, Israeli lawyer Gidon Bromberg and his colleagues in Friends of the Earth Middle East are also heroes of peacemaking. In the early 1990s, a young Israeli lawyer doing a master’s thesis on environmental international law concluded that the environment could and should be […]
As reported in Globes: IT services and solutions company Ness Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: NSTC; TASE: NSTC) announced on Friday that Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) unit Citi Venture Capital International (CVCI) will acquire the company for $307 million in cash. CVCI will pay $7.75 per share for Ness, 17.6% over the company’s closing price on Nasdaq […]
