‘I’ve never gotten so many emails with smiley face emoticons as I get since I started Abe’s Market,’ says co-founder Jon Polin.
Technology
VascoDe brings smart-phone capabilities to simple cell phones
Israeli startup carves out a niche selling software to give online app access to billions of people in places where smartphones are unaffordable.
Israel’s top 12 video surveillance advances
Last week’s Boston terror attack highlighted the critical role of video surveillance analytics in tracing criminals and terrorists. It’s a field in which Israeli companies excel.
Umoove operates your mobile through head movements alone
Newsgeek chose Israel’s Umoove as one of the three most promising Israeli startups for 2013.
Free plug-in for recipe bloggers
Israel’s Kitchenbug formats recipes, tacks on nutritional information and adds keyword tags to optimize placement in a Google recipe search.
VI gives your virtual persona a new life
Israeli mobile app VI lets your friends rank your personality anonymously, using a list of 40 positive traits.
Incubating startups in the Israeli classroom
Why wait until leaving university to start a business? Campus accelerators give students a risk-free base from which to research and launch ideas.
Go the distance with Israel’s revolutionary MUV-e scooter
A new fast, environmentally friendly and convenient solution for those last few miles between the commuter bus, car park or train to the office and home.
IBM Research celebrates 40 years in Israel
Personalized medicine, agriculture, mobile programming: ISRAEL21c looks at some of the advances coming out of IBM’s Haifa facility lately.
The quartz that looks like marble
Caesarstone was the first company to use a high-tech process to turn quartz into a brand-new surfacing product. Now the kibbutz company leads the market worldwide.
Calling American angels to seed Israeli tech
Janvest managing partner: ‘We operate in a gap in the investment market that allows us to get larger chunks of more mature and more interesting companies.’