Women high-tech executives in Israel are working hard to overcome what many see as subtle barriers to success.The boon of high-tech development in Israel has brought women the promise of a new economy, one in which companies will provide a …
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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.
Orna Berry: Making high tech work
Orna Berry (center) has become a partner in Israel Gemini Funds, a venture capital group, since leaving as Chief Scientist of Israel’s Ministry for Industry and Trade.With her short silvery hair, dark pants suit and sensible flat-heeled shoes, Orna Berry …
Riding the high-tech wave
Israeli companies have been especially active in semiconductors, along with telecommunications and software.At first, it sounds like Erel Margalit is telling some sort of weird joke. “If you could take an Israeli engineer and mix him with a Japanese engineer, …
‘Yossi’ Vardi – Israel’s Internet Connection
‘Yossi’ Vardi has been a high-tech entrepreneur, a venture capitalist and an advisor to the Israeli central bank.In 1996 a small Israeli startup called Mirabilis developed an application for the Internet that allowed users to send text messages to each …
Building a molecular computer for the body
The biocomputer may be used in the future to screen DNA libraries and accelerate understanding of how DNA works.A group of scientists headed by Prof. Ehud Shapiro at the Weizmann Institute of Science has used biological molecules to create a …
Slicing the technology transfer pie
Israeli universities such as the Technion are trying to capture more royalties from products created from their research.Last summer, Jerusalem-based Mindset Biopharmaceuticals added a researcher from the Weizmann Institute to its paid scientific advisory board. On his first exposure to …
Technion developing better controls for satellites
Although more than 26,000 satellites have been launched, technologies for controlling them are comparatively primitive.Although more than 26,000 satellites have been launched, technologies for controlling them are comparatively primitive.Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is teaming with researchers from Cornell …
Aiming for an erasable newspaper
Startup e-magin is aiming its erasable ink technology initially at the $7.5 billion outdoor billboard market.Imagine being able to touch a button on the side of a blank page of flexible paper-like plastic and see your newspaper appear on it …
Security firms tackling business boom
Some Israeli firms have a head start in the expanding market for solutions to security problems, but competition will be fierce, observers say.Spread out in the sprawling Kiryat Gat industrial zone, Shalon Chemical Industries has seen some hard times. The …
Cleveland, Ohio, sending biotech mission to Israel
Israel’s biotech industry in reaching out for new expansion and funding opportunities.Cleveland is strategically poised to participate in promising biotechnology collaborations with Israel, say civic and business leaders.The city already hosts Israeli companies, including QBI and Simbionix, a developer of …