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The Technion – Israel’s Hard Drive
May 16, 2013, category: Hi-Tech
The Technion – Israel’s Hard Drive
The Technion – Israel’s Hard Drive The most ambitious project in the sphere of technology studies, and perhaps in all of higher education, in the world is being planned, and Israel’s leading technology institute,
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Read MoreIsraeli Company Tracks Your Online Behavior To Protect Your Privacy
May 7, 2013, category: Technology
Israeli Company Tracks Your Online Behavior To Protect Your Privacy
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 our personal information, these are still easy to bypass for experienced hackers. Although some companies have introduced biometrics such as face recognition and fingerprint identification as means of protecting items such as laptops, there’s no such solution for services accessed online.
Thus, Israeli company BioCatch just might have a simple, yet secure solution. BioCatch’s technology tracks our online behavior and analyzes it to see if it really is us or someone pretending to be us. It uses the idea that each person interacts with a computer slightly differently, whether it is the way we move our mouse pointer or the tiny differences in our reaction speed.
To read more about BioCatch and it’s features, click here.
For more information about Israeli innovations, contact Daniel Blumenthal.
Israel Trade & Economic Office
Read MoreQIZs Help Stimulate Jordanian Exports to the United States
May 7, 2013, category: General
QIZs Help Stimulate Jordanian Exports to the United States
In 2012, Jordan was the U.S.’s 73rd largest goods trading partner with $2.8 billion in bilateral trade in goods. Goods exports totaled $1.6 billion; Goods imports totaled $1.2 billion. The U.S. goods trade surplus with
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Read MoreIsraeli Hummus is winning America over
May 6, 2013, category: General
Israeli Hummus is winning America over
The Wall Street Journal reports that apparently “Hummus is conquering America”- Sabra Dipping Co., a joint venture of PepsiCo Inc. and Israel’s Strauss Group Ltd., wants to cultivate a commercial crop in Virginia to reduce its dependence on the legume’s main U.S. growing region—the Pacific Northwest—and to identify new chickpea varieties for its dips and spreads.
Hummus is becoming very popular among Americans seeking more-healthful snacks. The chickpea dip is low in fat and high in protein. Sales of “refrigerated flavored spreads”—a segment dominated by hummus—totaled $530 million at U.S. food retailers last year, up 11% from a year earlier and a 25% jump over 2010, according to market-research firm Information Resources Inc.
Read the full article here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323798104578453174022015956.html
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Read MoreBuffett completes ownership of Iscar for $2 Billion
May 3, 2013, category: Investment, Technology
Buffett completes ownership of Iscar for $2 Billion
Buffett completes ownership of Iscar for $2 Billion In another major vote of confidence on the part of one of the world’s most respected businessmen in the Israeli economy, Warren Buffett
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Read MoreAppreciate Will Help You Find The Droid (App) You Were Looking For
May 2, 2013, category: Hi-Tech, Technology
Appreciate Will Help You Find The Droid (App) You Were Looking For
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 and CTO Yaron Segalov, both who have previous experience in the mobile industry and with big data.
Appreciate provides an unique way of determining app quality. Appreciate not only understands which apps are quality apps – a metric it understands by analyzing a variety of specific signals – it also matches those apps to a user’s unique personal tastes. Instead of determining an app’s quality based on ratings or reviews, its looks for other indicators – like whether or not users have installed the app then rapidly uninstalled it, for example – a sure signal that it may have left something to be desired.
To read more about Appreciate and its features, click here.
For more information about Israeli innovations, contact Daniel Blumenthal.
Israel Trade & Economic Office
Read MoreProject Ray Builds A New Kind Of Smartphone For The Blind
May 2, 2013, category: Hi-Tech, Technology
Project Ray Builds A New Kind Of Smartphone For The Blind
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 Zilberman, the founder of the Israeli startup company Project Ray, created a Android operating system designed for the blind. The phones were specially designed around a touch system that every blind person knows – the 12-key number pad. Every screen has the apps and commands arranged in a square. The phone reads the command when users simply move their fingers and executes the command when they lift the finger off.
The first unlocked phones were recently released for the Israeli and European markets. In June, they’ll be arriving in the U.S., available either unlocked or as part of a contract.
To read more about Project Ray and its features, click here.
For more information about Israeli innovations, contact Daniel Blumenthal.
Israel Trade & Economic Office
Read More“Israel Alley” at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC happening NOW. Solutions & pics inside! [UPDATED]
April 29, 2013, category: General
“Israel Alley” at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC happening NOW. Solutions & pics inside! [UPDATED]
***UPDATE! (May 1, 10:00)*** New companies added to the catalog below, and pics from last night’s USI Innovation reception.
***UPDATE (April 30, 12:44)*** TechCrunch blog covers Israel Alley startup Glide. LINK
***UPDATE! (April 30, 12:00)*** TechCrunch blog covers Israel Alley startup Stylit. LINK
***UPDATE! (April 30, 11:00)*** Madison+Mountainview tech and business blog covers Israeli startups at Day 1 of TC Disrupt! LINK
SOLUTIONS AT A GLANCE
The following are on display in Israel Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt 2013. For information on how you can participate in this activity, or if you would like to schedule a meeting with a company, please contact Oded at the Israel Economic Mission in NYC.
CLICK HERE for pics of ISRAEL ALLEY! [Updated]
For Investors: To invest in any of these or other Israeli technology startups, you can do so by registering for our IEM Investors Network, powered by GUST.
The companies:
Bizzabo is the ideal event networking app designed to help event organizers communicate with attendees while giving them the best social and networking experience. Since its launch in July 2012, more than 2,000 leading conferences from around the world chose Bizzabo as their official event app.
You know the story, you are working passionately on something important while listening to your music. You are almost sure someone is calling you, so you mute the volume…but apparently no one did! So you turn the volume back on, but now you’ve lost your train of thought. ClapTo is a solution for those non-stop false alarms! ClapTo is a tiny app that allows people to simply clap their hands to mute your music and get your attention. Once you’re ready, you can get back to work by the click of a button!
DeckDAQ has an innovative Facebook platform that enable fans to collect and trade Virtual Goods of their favorite brands. Our platform powers games with many brands including: Dilbert, Elvis, Garfield, AC Milan, AS Roma and many more coming this summer. We are looking for additional brands and strategic partners to help us expand. Offices in New York City and Tel Aviv, Israel. Contact: eric@deckdaq.com for more info.
eDealya allows marketers to spend their advertising budgets wisely bidding only for qualified audience that matches their marketing need. Mobile advertisers rely on the“spray and pray”method based on the lack of audience segmentation and targeting data. As a fragmented industry, mobile advertising relies on various players to provide optimization based on specific niches, but all result in low eCPMs for publishers and below average ROI for marketers. Advertisers and publishers leverage eDealya’s proprietary technology to build a comprehensive consumer profile on each individual device resulting in targeted audience segments for mobile campaigns. By leveraging our algorithms and extensive inventory, campaigns see an increased ROI.
Emaze has a vision to change the way people create presentations through a simple, fully automated process that generate powerful and engaging showcases. Emaze is a revolutionary new concept to turns ideas into stunning live stories. It is an HTML5 cross-platform cloud based web application, compatible with all computers, tablets and mobile devices. It enables users to create amazing presentations with little effort or expertise involved.
EXP is a patented futures marketplace for consumer products.
Glide is a video walkie talkie app that enables users to broadcast private video messages to friends. Messages are broadcast live the moment recording begins and simultaneously saved to the cloud for on-demand consumption.
Hostr lets people host live performances in their homes and share the cost with their friends. It connects musicians, artists, actors, writers and speakers with hosts and with audience for up-close personal and intimate experiences. It helps artists make a living and get discovered without any charges.
Platform Intalix connects single users in a very easy and convenient way. Intalix enables users to browse and interact with other single users that they don’t know through their mutual friend or directly. Intalix does it on all of the previously mentioned social networks: Facebook, Google+, VKONTAKTE, Orkut, Odnoklassniki and Instagram.
Keepy.me is a conversation starter for families. Initially, by helping parents storing their kid’s offline work as a vehicle to engage family members who share, comment and forward short videos, we see it rapidly expanding to be the multi-generational communication center. Founded by Offir, a serial entrepreneur who was until recently a VP of Business Development for Getty’s PicScout division. Keepy.me, is a venture that combines Offir’s background and his love for children’s creativity. Keepy is currently bootstrapped to the point where it has a team in place, R&D in Israel, with marketing and product in NYC.
MultiDine is a servicing platform that lets you interact through touch, learns your taste and helps you discover your favorite dishes and restaurants, inside the restaurant and on your way to one. Changing the way restaurants communicate with their customers, the restaurant staff easily increases profits and customer retention. Requiring No Integration, MultiDine maintains the traditional dining experience and enhances it fit today’s tech-culture.
ProductStructure is like an Adserver – but for applications – dynamically providing websites with the specialized tools they need to attract and engage users. Our comprehensive front-end and back-end solution is implemented via a line of javascript and automatically serves the most effective versions of features such as login/registration, friends/followers, invitation and subscription to websites. Once in place, these features are self-optimizing so our customers can rest assured that they always have the best tools for their user while saving time and money in the process.
Proleafic transforms enterprise collaboration and business intelligence by revealing the evolving relationships between people, projects, data, and stakeholders – automatically, to enable employees to collaborate and find knowledge faster, while providing business intelligence insights to help managers and executives to analyze employees’ activities and engagements level, and optimize their resource allocation strategies.
Stylit offers free online personalized styling services. Users fill out a fun questionnaire and receive weekly outfit recommendations that match their style preference, size and budget. We use professional stylists in combination with high end machine learning technology to give a scalable valuable solution with high users’ engagement.
TAKO converts any mobile device into a full user-friendly work station. We do this by centralizing all your apps into 1 virtual desktop thereby allowing you to run your apps from any device. TAKO then automatically adjusts the app you are running to that device in real time. TAKO also allows you to share you apps with friends, friends and colleagues.
Webydo provides professional designers with a full SaaS solution for both the creation and management of cross platform business websites, without programming. This design-centered cloud platform includes both a Design Management System and a built-in Content Management System for the website owners. This integrated system allows designers total creative freedom in designing unique websites from scratch without writing one line of code, while facilitating direct communication between designers and their clients in the ongoing management of the website. Behind the scenes, Webydo’s innovative CODE GENERATOR automatically generates both an HTML website updated to the latest industry standards, cross all browsers & platforms and optimized for SEO, and a friendly WYSIWYG built-in CMS.
Wedeeo is a truly social video application that gives you the power to co-create, mix and share video moments together with your friends and fans. Wedeeo is seamlessly integrated with Facebook and Facebook pages which allows true engagement and fun communication with your fans. It’s video together.
For more info about the event and roadshow surrounding the Israeli Delegation at TechCrunch NYC this year, CLICK HERE.
CLICK HERE for pics of ISRAEL ALLEY! [Updated]
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Read MoreIsraeli Companies at Houston’s Offshore Technology Conference (OTC)
April 23, 2013, category: cleantech, General, Investment
Israeli Companies at Houston’s Offshore Technology Conference (OTC)
Innovative companies will be at Houston’s Offshore Technology Conference, the premier U.S. event for offshore development including drilling, exploration, production and environmental protection. These companies include a delegation of companies that own
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Read MoreIsrael at NHS 2013
April 22, 2013, category: General
May 7, 2013 - May 9, 2013 Las Vegas, Nevada Join the Economic Mission at the National Hardware Show (NHS) in Las Vegas this May and see what Israel has to
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