Amobee hopes to enable content creators to survive today’s free Internet culture by providing their output in exchange for embedded advertising. Is this Google’s next acquisition? Amobee: a backend telco-grade infrastructure for mobile operators. Web publishers worldwide are in …
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Can’t use that hotel reservation? Sell it online
Two Israeli startups, Roomer and Cancelon, help find a buyer for your cancelled room reservation so you won’t lose on fees and no-refund deals.
Israeli company weaves new jobs into North Carolina
Israeli textile manufacturer Shalag will invest $17m. in a new plant and fly over to teach American workers the technology. Galilee-based textile manufacturer Shalag is now building a new manufacturing facility in North Carolina. An Israeli textile company has …
Elevating your site a RankAbove
Using artificial intelligence an Israeli start up will analyze your blog or website and tell you how to optimize it to meet your sales or advertising goals. Helping to get your site noticed: On the right – Mayer Reich, …
Is this the end of the iPhone?
More device than phone, the First Else is an all-Israeli challenge to the iPhone that promises to change the cell phone game and even potentially shift its center to Israel. Designed from the ground up, the First Else could …
Sorting the bad guys from the good
Israel’s WeCu claims a 95 percent success rate for its new terrorist detection system that monitors reactions to visual stimuli at airports and checkpoints. Taking a different approach to airport security: Ehud Givon, CEO of Israeli security detection company …
Israel’s Affordy streamlines the netbook revolution
Affordy’s Linux-based operating system has a Windows “look and feel” that will appeal to Windows users who move over to the more affordable netbooks. “Within a few minutes, users have a ready-to-go computer that they can start working with …
Websites that can tune into their customers
In just over a year, 30,000 clients in 191 countries have adopted Israeli company Kampyle’s feedback system, allowing them to discover what their customers really think. Kampyle has come up with a solution to ensure that customers feel their …
iPhone home wherever you roam
The customizable iPhoneTrip from Israel means your ‘travel phone’ can hold GPS, translator software, restaurant and hotel advice and more, and you’ll never pay roaming fees again. With the custom-made iPhoneTrip you have all the software, applications and information …
A year in videos: ISRAEL21c’s top 10 YouTube stories of 2009
Whether they portrayed life-saving surgery on a Gaza infant, a kibbutz that went solar or a dance for elderly women, our videos touched and informed viewers throughout 2009, revealing a very different side of life in Israel. At the …
Free parking for NYC’s drivers?
How would you like a free parking spot in New York City? Two Israelis based in Manhattan could help you find a space with a new iPhone application. Photo by Dan Wuh on Flickr. Parking at broken meters can …