The MOFET Institute is pleased to inform about its upcoming study tour scheduled for the last week of March 2011. The 8-day study tour “T&T and ICT”, will deal with the topic of ICT in Education. The tour is designed for educators who are active in assimilating communication technologies into diverse educational systems. For further […]
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As reported in Globes: Home seltzer systems maker Sodastream International Ltd. priced the 5.45 million shares offered in its Nasdaq IPO at $20 per share, raising $109 million, at a company value of $367 million, after money. The company offered the shares at $18-20. Trading in SodaStream’s share will begin on November 8, under the […]
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As reported in the Economist: LONDON’S streets can be a bit of a maze, but below ground things are even more complex. Water pipes crisscross the city in all directions. Some areas used to have competing water companies, each of which built its own system. Not even Thames Water, the utility that operates the British […]
As reported by Israel21c: While gas and oil exploration rigs have been dominating the energy news headlines in Israel of late, at least one man and his company think Israel should try to catch the wind to meet the country’s ever-increasing energy needs. Zahal (also the Hebrew acronym for IDF – Israel Defense Forces) Harel, […]
Pohang Iron and Steel Company, Korea’s fifth largest conglomerate also known as Posco, joined Israel’s Global Enterprise R&D Cooperation Framework. Posco, today the world’s second largest steel producer and ranked 272nd in the Fortune 500, is both the first Korean firm as well as the first company from Asia to join the Israeli framework. The […]
PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc., a leading Israeli provider of highly integrated network processors optimized for mobile backhaul, 3G and 4G wireless and wireline broadband networks. PMC-Sierra is buying Wintegra for a net purchase price of $213 million and will pay up to an additional $60 million based […]
Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, is acquiring Percello Ltd., a developer of system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for femtocells. Femtocells are small, low power cellular base stations used in residential and enterprise business settings that communicate with a service provider’s network through a broadband connection and extend coverage indoors where […]
Internet giant Yahoo is acquiring Israeli display ad optimization technology developer start-up Dapper for $55 million. Dapper currently partners with Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo and following the acquisition its development center in Ramat Gan will become Yahoo’s development center in Israel. Dapper, which was founded in 2006, developed a technology platform that enables advertisers and agencies […]
Ernst & Young (E&Y), one of the “Big Four” global auditors, forecasts Israel will have 24 mergers and acquisitions in 2010, worth about $1.75 billion, higher than the 17 deals made in 2009 for $1.5 billion. During September and October alone, 13 Israeli companies were bought in multi-million dollar deals, including seven in October, and […]
As reported in IVC: Amiad CEO Arik Dayan: The existing infrastructure of Taixing will allow us to penetrate new markets in China. Amiad Filtration Systems Ltd. (LSE:AFS), which produces and supplies water filters and filtration systems for the industrial, municipal and irrigation markets, announced today that it has acquired the remaining 50% of its Chinese […]
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