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Israeli Company Tracks Your Online Behavior To Protect Your Privacy

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There has been an increasing concern as to whether password-protection really protects our privacy.  While many online companies, such as Facebook and Google, have introduced steps such as two-step verification to protect

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Appreciate Will Help You Find The Droid (App) You Were Looking For

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An Israeli app discovery service, Appreciate, was launched recently on the Android app store to help users find the better-quality apps.  The company was founded two years ago by CEO Amir Maor

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Project Ray Builds A New Kind Of Smartphone For The Blind

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A new kind of smartphone for the blind people has been developed as a way to bridge the digital divide and raise the bar in accessibility for the blind and visually impaired.  Boaz

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Harman Buys Israeli Road Safety App Developer iOnRoad

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Road safety app developer iOnRoad Technologies Ltd. has been acquired by Harman International Industries, one of the world’s largest vehicle media and navigation systems companies.  Although the size of the deal was

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International Technology Partnership between UChicago and BGU to Focus on Water Problems

International Technology Partnership between UChicago and BGU to Focus on Water Problems

The University of Chicago and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), which was founded by an Israeli government mandate to lead the development of the Negev desert, signed an agreement to begin exploring a research

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New App ‘Takes’ Converts Photos Into Videos

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Unlike other apps that just turn your photos into a music-backdropped slideshow, new Israeli startup app Takes turns photos into moving images by using motion-sensing technology built into smartphones to fill in the

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Israeli Brand Marketing Co Signs Deal with Kraft

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Tracx, a SaaS platform for brand marketing, supplies real-time data on activity on social networks. Their most recent clients include Kraft Foods Group Inc., the largest food and beverage company in the US

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Joint Development Center Opening in Israel between SingTel, Amdocs

Singapore Communications will be opening its third “LifeLab” in Israel. The other two reasearch and development centers are in Boston and Singapore. In Israel, SingTel will be collaborating with Israeli software house Amdocs and plan

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Waze Named Best Mobile App

Waze Named Best Mobile App

In the Global Mobile Awards competition, held as part of the Mobile World Congress (MWC), Israeli company’s app took home the Best Overall App Award. The navigation app which uses crowdsourcing to

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Kenshoo Unveils Revolutionary Digital Marketing Technology

Kenshoo is already a global leader within the digital marketing realm, having created innovations such as Paid and Owned Social Media Attribution and Kenshoo Local. Now the company has unveils its newest disruptive technology–Kenshoo Smartpath.

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BIO International 2012

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Fifteen Israeli companies are exhibiting at the BIO International 2012 Conference and Exhibition from June 18th to the 21st at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. On the evening of

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Doing Life Science Business in Israel

This program, to be held at the Illinois Science + Technology Park (Auditorium at 8045 Lamon, Skokie, IL 60077), will feature Yariv Becher (Consul for Economic Affairs, Chicago), Limor Nakar (BIRD foundation), Nicole Walker (Abbott

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International Home & Housewares Show

International Home & Housewares Show

The annual International Home & Housewares show will take place at McCormick Place n Chicago. Taking up over 1 million square feet of exhibition space, the show is the largest of its

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