Mission Impossible? Watch Movies Inside Hi-Tech Glasses

Welcome to VC Cafe. If you’re new around here, you may want to subscribe to our feed and get daily updates for FREE. An Israeli optics company says it has developed a miniature video projector that turns regular eyeglasses into a personal video screen.
The technology, which until now has only been seen in movies such […]

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Microsoft Corp has acquired Israeli start-up Secured Dimensions for a few million dollars.
Source: Globes
Secured Dimensions has developed a technology for the protection of applications based on Microsoft’s .NET platform. This is the latest move in Microsoft’s expansion of its technological activity in the Israeli market, after the announcement of its new R&D center, and the […]

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Australia’s Future VC Industry: Modelling Israel

If you look at most Sand Hill Venture firms that have an office outside the US, they will be in one of four geographies; China, Europe, India and Israel.
Source: LightSpeed
One of these does not look like the others… Israel, like Australia, has too small a domestic market to be able to nurture a venture backable […]

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Serendipity Technologies to presenst at AJAXWorld 2007

Serendipity Technologies, provider of secure Web 2.0 solutions for the enterprise, has been selected to present at AJAXWorld in New York.
Yuval Tarsi, co-founder and VP of R&D will present “Secure Web 2.0 Solutions for the Enterprise: Beyond Blogs and Wikis”, highlighting the use of Web 2.0 technologies in accessing enterprise application data and the associated […]

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First exit in 2007: Amdocs buying SigValue for $85 million

It’s the first exit in 2007: billing & customer-care software giant Amdocs (NYSE: DOX) is buying the Israeli real-time cellular billing and messaging applications startup SigValue Technologies for $85 million.
Sources: The Marker (Hebrew), Haaretz
The exit is a terrific one for SigValue’s investors: according to IVC Online, the startup has received about $9 million in backing. […]

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