As reported in IVC: Better Place Israel CEO Moshe Kaplinski: The company wants to promote a similar deal in Israel. Please click here to see the artilce in the Sydney Morning Herald dated June 20th. Shai Agassi‘s electric car venture Better Place LLC has signed a $60 million 10-year deal with Australia’s ActewAGL Ltd. for […]
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As reported in Port2port: Israel is 1st in the world in total expenditures of R&D as % of GDP, entrepreneurship, central bank policy and scientific research and 2nd in access to venture capital and public expenditure on education According to the 2011 World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) of the International Institute Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, […]
As reported in IVC Greylock Israel Partners today announced that it has closed a $160 million fund, Greylock Israel II, from which it will continue to invest in exceptional enterprise and consumer technology companies at all stages of development, from seed to early to growth, in Israel and Europe. As with previous Greylock funds, this […]
As reported by Globes: Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it will set up an R&D center in Tel Aviv, based on heterogeneous computing and 3D graphics developer Graphic Remedy, which it acquired six months ago. According to IVC, the acquisition was made at a value of $5 million. AMD says that […]
Where Unique Heritage Assets Meet a Solid Business Environemnt In light of the record number of incoming tourist visitors to Israel in 2010 and the Ministry of Tourism target for 2015 for 5 million tourists a year in addition to the thriving domestic tourism market, the upsurge in demand is putting pressure on the supply […]
Since its inception, Israel has been coping with water scarcity and has been treating the subject as a national priority. In addition, due to its political situation, the country is an “electric island”, meaning that it has to supply its own electricity demands. In light of the foregoing reasons, Israeli scientists and entrepreneurs have been […]
Since its founding, Israel has been coping with water scarcity and has been treating the subject as a national priority. The country has been constantly developing novel and efficient water and energy technologies, which can benefit the world as it is increasingly dealing with water and energy scarcity concerns. From the comprehensive management of water […]
According to the report, 61,600 tourists arrived at the port during the first five months of this year. The increase has been attributed to the changes in passenger ship’s schedule bypassing Tunis, Egypt as well as Libya due to the civil unrest Haifa Port Company Ltd. reported last week an increase in number of tourists […]
Over 55,000 people – Israelis and tourists – enjoyed the critically-acclaimed 2011 Israeli Opera Festival in Masada and Jerusalem, which featured a spectacular production of Aida, conducted by Maestro Daniel Oren, at the foot of Mount Masada and the Israeli premiere of Verdi’s Jerusalem, performed against the backdrop of the Old City walls in Jerusalem. […]
Tel Aviv celebrated gay pride last week with an extensive program of events and activities, culminating in the colorful annual Pride Parade held on Friday 10 June and attended by over 70,000 people. Over 5,000 tourists from around the world came to join the festivities in Tel Aviv. The first ever LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, […]
