Tag: Innovation
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WeKast Standalone Presentation Solution
As anyone who often gives presentations knows, things can go wrong with overhead projectors. Almost nothing is more embarrassing than tech failure in front of a room full of people. After working at an Israeli accelerator mentoring international startups and entrepreneurs, Noemie Alliel decided to fix how speakers present by eliminating the setup time. A…
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Israel’s Top Startups
Israel has become a very popular place for entrepreneurs to launch their startups, Tel Aviv in particular has become home for many tech based and other startups. This is because brilliant businessmen and women who have graduated from Israeli universities had dreams of making it big, even outside their country. If someone will look into…
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Bill Gates on Israeli Tech Innovation
Reposted from Start Up Israel by David Shamah: In a rare public comment on the value of MS Israel’s work in helping make the company what it is, Gates said that Israeli developments tech areas like analytics and security were “improving the world.” This year marked the eighth Think Next event, where MS shows off…
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Israeli Device Saving American Lives in Afghanistan
From David Shamah at The Times of Israel: When American troops are injured in the field, the first piece of life-saving medical equipment they may come into contact with nowadays is an Israeli-invented mini-sized manual ventilator. And not just American soldiers on the battlefield; the Pocket BVM has been used to treat thousands of people…
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Hillel Fuld in TechCrunch: Despite Unrest the Israeli Tech Ecosystem is Growing
From TechCrunch: Over the past few months, violence has once again scarred Israel and the Palestinian Territories, yet despite the violence and the losses on both sides of the conflict, technology companies in the region are flourishing. Israeli rounds of financing, both into Israeli companies and from local investors are on the rise. Several Israeli VCs…
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Jimmy Carter’s Cancer Cured By Israeli Breakthrough Drug
By Raoul Wootliff and the AP in the Times of Israel Researched in Israel by Professor Jacob Schachter of the Ella Institute for melanoma treatment and research at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Keytruda is part of a promising new class of drugs called immunotherapies, which harness the body’s immune system to help fight…
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Insights from sFBI’s Natalie Edward during Content Israel 2015 Conference
By Alan Weinkrantz Due to travel, I missed the Content Israel 2015 Conference, I really wanted to attend. If you are a startup, or for that matter, any company or organization looking at your content strategies for 2016, there’s a lot you can learn from sFBI’s Natalie Edwards. Natalie is Marketing Director for sFBI, a…
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Great Moments in Israeli Tech and Innovation from 2014
Many Israeli tech firms have done just that, essentially transforming the way the world works today – and here, too, there are a lot more than 10. While what follows is by no means a comprehensive list that was originally published in The Times of Israel, it is a good place to start. Some of these…
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Sukkot and the Growth of Israel’s Tech Economy
On the eve of the Sukkot festival, Michael Eisenberg, a partner at Israeli-based venture capital firm Aleph VC, took a look at how Israel’s economy has changed over the past 3,000 years through the perspective of Sukkot. He posted it on Facebook and it’s worth reposting here on Jewish Techs blog. By Michael Eisenberg As we…