Source: The New Yorker Earlier this year, Hanan Melcer, the chairman of Israel’s Central Elections Committee and a veteran justice on the Supreme Court, summoned representatives from major U.S. social-media and technology companies for talks about the role he expected them to play in curbing online deception during the country’s election, which took place on […]
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Source: Ctech Online insurance company Lemonade Inc. has signed a $300 million series D round led by existing investor SoftBank Group, the company announced Thursday. Allianz, General Catalyst, GV (formerly Google Ventures), OurCrowd, and Thrive Capital also participated. The round, which will close during the second quarter of 2019, brings Lemonade’s total funding to date […]
Source: Israel21c The rise of so-called “superbugs” is reaching epidemic levels. Today, nearly 700,000 people around the world die not from the illness for which they went to the doctor or a hospital but from an infection resulting from contact with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. One of the ways superbugs develop is when a patient is prescribed […]
Source: Forbes As Israel’s innovation in medtech draws attention from around the world, its health care system is also consistently rated as one of the best in the world. Israel has done this this by optimising patient treatment through making medical data easier to access for medical institutions, researchers and entrepreneurs. Whilst many of Israel’s […]
Source: The Jerusalem Post On the 28th of March Israel and Australia signed ‘a draft income tax treaty’. The Treaty is set to come into effect from the 1st of January 2020, subject to ratification from each country. Click hear to read The Jerusalem Post’s summary of the treaty.
Source: Reuters McDonald’s Corp said on Monday it would buy Israel’s Dynamic Yield, whose technology helps marketers personalize customer interactions, to boost its online marketing efforts. McDonald’s will pay more than $300 million, a person familiar with the matter said. McDonald’s said it would use Dynamic Yield’s technology to change its digital Drive Thru menu […]
Source: Israel21c It’s not unusual for superstars from Israeli military intelligence units to spin their expertise into startup gold. SeeTreecofounder and CEO Israel Talpaz chose to apply his intel knowhow to commercial orchards, and the company is growing as fast as a weed. In a forest of more than 450 Israeli ag-tech companies, Talpaz focused on […]
Israel has produced many outstanding and essential medtech and healthcare technologies that are world renowned. Israel’s hospitals are moving to play their part in the creation of such technology and to not only heal, but also innovate. Israel’s number of ‘hospital-sponsored innovation centers or healthcare accelerators’ is believed to be the highest per capita in […]
Source: Forbes This new neighborhood will be the first in the world to be built “from the internet up” and will be able to run itself through the collection and monitoring of data from traffic, noise, air quality, waste and the residents’ daily habits. Cities around the world are increasingly taking on the goal of […]
Source: nocamels Israeli companies specializing in artificial intelligence raised nearly 40 percent of the total venture capital funds raised by the Israeli tech ecosystem for 2018, despite accounting for just 17 percent of the total number of innovative technology companies in the country, according to a report this month by Start-Up Nation Central (SNC). A […]
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