As reported at Port2Port The OECD report praise Israel for its efforts noting that in recent years Israel has strengthened its environmental policies, to read more
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As reported at Port2Port: Hefetz: “a fairly new development is that food exports to Asia soared by 79% compared with the same six month period last year and totaled some US$92 million dollars” to read more
As reported in Globes Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC), the world’s largest chipmaker, will invest NIS 55 million over the next five years in opening a new Israel research institute. The institute, which will cooperate with several Israeli academic institutes, will according to Intel engage in research into computational intelligence; to read more
As reported in Globes Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) plans to open an incubator in Israel in August 2012. Google Israel R&D Center director Prof. Yossi Matias made the announcement at Google Israel’s annual developers conference today. The incubator will begin operations when Google Israel enters its new offices in the Electra Tower in Tel Aviv. […]
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Better Place raises $200m
As reported on Globes Shai Agassi’s electric car venture Better Place LLC has raised $200 million in its third financing round in the US from a consortium of investors and partners, nearly doubling the company’s valuation to $2.25 billion (after money). The launch of the first nationwide electric car networks in Israel and Denmark is […]
Israel’s Agro-technology industry is characterized by intensive research and development of innovative systems that in large part stemmed from the need to overcome the scarcity of the country’s natural resources, in particular water and arable land. The constant growth in agro-technologies is due to the close cooperation between researchers, extension agents, farmers, and agriculture-related industries. […]
Hadasit, the Technology Transfer Company of Hadassah Medical Organization, has launched Ways, an incubator for joint Jewish-Arab biomed ventures in the Galilee. In addition to an initial 7.5 million shekel investment by Hadasit, several million dollars have been pledged to Ways from social organizations as well. Ways will invest $500,000 in 12 projects each, which […]
The Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation, approved $8.1 million of funding for nine new projects between Israeli and American companies. The approved projects involve innovations in the areas of life sciences, healthcare IT, electronics, software and energy. In addition to the grants from BIRD, the projects will access private sector funding, boosting […]
Israel Corporation unit Cerro del Aguila SA has agreed to build a 510-megawatt hydroelectric power station in Peru at an investment of $680 million. The Cerro del Aguila power station, located in Tayacaja Province in central Peru, in March signed a 15-year power purchase agreement with Peru’s government-owned electricity company, which will come into effect […]
“We are delighted to welcome the BigBand employees to ARRIS.” – Bob Stanzione, ARRIS Chairman & CEO. Communications-equipment maker Arris Group Inc. is acquiring digital-video networking company BigBand Networks Inc. for about $158.1 million in cash. BigBand Networks, which has more than 200 customers in North America, Asia and Europe, provides broadband service providers with […]
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