Kampyle Adds User Feedback To Google Analytics (CEO Interview)

Shopping websites are extremely sensitive to deserted shopping carts. In some cases, 60-70% of their users would add items to their cart but suddenly close the window – leaving the site owner with little information about their reasons for leaving and more importantly, without revenue.
Kampyle, the Israeli start up developing SaaS feedback analytics, offers an [...]

VMWare Behind You: Neebula Raises $5 Million for Virtualization Software

Neebula Systems, developer of management tools for virtual computer environments, has raised a first round of $5 million for from Genesis Partners and Pitango Venture Capital.

Exclusive: TodaCell Raises $1 Million for Mobile Ad Optimization Platform (Interview with CEO Moshe Vaknin)

Toda!cell (www.todacell.com), an Israeli ad optimization platform, has raised an A round of $1 million led by Afterdox (see previous coverage on VC Cafe) the Fore Group and several other angels. The company had previously raised an undisclosed seed round, when it was founded in March 2007.
TodaCell’s platform matches premium mobile ad campaigns with users, based on [...]

Today Boxee Starts Competing with Hulu, On Windows

We told you about Boxee’s app dev challenge a few weeks ago, where 40 apps were developed with great innovation. Yesterday the results have been unveiled in San Francisco but the big winner was… Boxee!  The Israeli media center start up is loved by the open source development community and is about to roll out [...]

Twitter Apps Bug Battle: uTest Uncovers 317 Bugs On Twitter Desktop Apps

Real-Time Bugs? uTest, the world’s largest QA marketplace, announced the results of its “Twitter Apps Bug Battle”, a week long contest for 600 of its 17,000 crowdsourced QA professionals

Can Israeli start ups open US Bank Accounts?

Should the Israeli start up open a US bank account?
Which bank is recommended? Can the start up open a US bank account if it has no physical presence in the US? Is it possible to complete the process online online?

3DV Systems and PrimeSense Are the Israeli Firms Behind Microsoft’s Project NATAL

The acquisition of Israel’s 3DV Systems by Microsoft has been rumoured for a few weeks, but confirmation was given today at the annual press conference of Microsoft’s R&D Center in Israel, one of Microsoft’s four strategic regional development centers. The announcement comes just a few days after the Antitrust Authority approved the deal.
As reported by Globes, [...]

$12 Million E Round to Israel’s YCD Multimedia

YCD Platform, the company’s flagship product offers a web platform for retailers to control the display of ads, promotional messages, audio and video playlists to various locations simultaneously.

Links I Posted On Twitter -Week of June 23

Most people don’t ‘get’ Twitter yet… what is the fuss about about people IMing with each other? Why would you want to read random people’s rants?  If that’s how you feel,  I challenge you to give Twitter a real try. On that note, below is a recap of links I posted or found on Twitter, [...]

ITDatabase Gives VCs and Entrepreneurs a Window into America and the Market

As a PR person based in Tel Aviv helping Israeli technology companies market their products and services internationally, it drives me crazy when Israeli VCs say that companies have to be (physically) located in the US in order to market their products to Americans.
Haven’t they heard of the Internet? With the Internet, being located somewhere [...]

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