As reported in Jewsnews: The $7 device is loaded with Google’s Android 4.4 operating system. Plug it into the USB port of any old laptop or desktop, and you’ve got a personal computer. If you can put data on a USB drive, why not put an entire operating system on a stick? It’s a simple […]
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As reported in NoCamels: When it comes to treating large, open wounds, not much has changed in the past five thousand years. Just as the ancient Egyptians used needles and thread to patch up their wounded, doctors employ the same stitching ‘technology’ today to prevent infection and facilitate healing. Nonetheless, when a wound is too […]
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An Outbrain IPO in the works
If there’s one Israeli company whose work you would be familiar with, it is that of Outbrain. A content recommendation company, they are the ones that provide the ‘recommended for you’ articles at the bottom of news sites, including some sponsored ads. Outbrain has recently filed confidentially with the U.S. Securities and Exchange commission for […]
Every night, nearly a hundred robots come to life in the arid desert of southern Israel and get busy cleaning rows and rows of solar panels. The robots are designed by startup Ecoppia as an alternative to the conventional, but also labor-intensive, method of sending human workers to hose and wipe down panels manually or use […]
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Charge your phone in 30 seconds
Picture sourced from App advice (http://appadvice.com/appnn/2012/02/upcoming-app-find-your-missing-idevice-even-if-the-battery-is-dead) Smartphones are great. They allow us to check our email wherever we go, surf the net, navigate our way through unfamiliar streets – these mini computers have significantly changed our culture and lives. But, at one point or another, the inevitable strikes: the battery dies. And often accompanying it […]
3D printer maker, 3D Systems, recently acquired Israeli company Cimatron Ltd for $8.97 a share. The total transaction is valued at $97 million, inclusive of its net cash. Cimatron is a leading provider in 3D CAD/CAM software products for manufacturing. These are increasingly being used by a companies around the world for their 3D production […]
This November, Israel signed an agreement to join a cleantech common market of 41 countries which among other things, stipulates cancelling taxes on environmentally-friendly products. Meanwhile earlier this year, Israel was named as the world’s top innovator in the field of clean technologies by the Global Cleantech 100 Index, topping 40 other countries. All of […]
Tel Aviv receives international recognition while winning the first prize in the World Smart Cities Award at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona. 250 cities competed in the competition. The Smart City Expo World Congress is considered the leading conference in the world of city innovation. Tel Aviv is hosting an extraordinary booth […]
Israeli start-up EnStorage is reported to have signed an R&D agreement with international energy management company Schneider Electric and French energy corporation Areva to develop a renewable energy storage system. The cooperation agreement is for the development of a renewable energy storage system with sales potential in 135 countries around the world. Moran Buganim-Gold, head of the energy […]
Microsoft confirmed that it is acquiring Israeli cyber security startup Aorato in a deal reportedly worth $200M. Aorato’s focus is on enterprise services in the cloud and in hybrid on-premise and cloud environments, using machine learning to detect suspicious patterns. Microsoft Corporate Vice President Cloud and Enterprise Marketing Takeshi Numoto said on his blog today, “I’m […]
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