Will Catch Media be the iTunes for the Android Phone?

Last year, Eric Schmidt has promised to buy a start up a month as Google re-kindles its M&A activities. Aardvark and reMail were the most recent buys and now, several sources report that theIsraeli start-up Catch Media might be next.

The Best Technology Companies To Work For in Israel 2009?

A report published today by BDI-Coface lists Intel as the Best company to work for in Israeli high tech. Intel is a veteran in the Israeli high tech scene: Intel Israel was established in 1974 and was the first development center outside the United States.

Labpixies and 6rounds Among the Six Featured Google Wave Extensions

Two Israeli start ups have been selected as two of the six featured extensions for Google Wave. Google has launched Wave, its real-time communication and sharing tool, at the end of September for only 100,000 beta users, and each of them got eight invites.  I was among the lucky ones to get invited, but I [...]

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 [...]

Friends like Google are good for Babylon’s business

While the Israeli high-tech firing wave continues, Bloomberg News Corporation founds an interesting and successful Israeli company that’s worth covering – Babylon.
Babylon provides a translation tool as well as encyclopedic information and professional glossaries for text on the screen. When a user clicks on text with the right mouse button or combination of the right [...]

Silicon Valley Tightens Connection With Israel

Many international guests gathered in Israel last week for three parallel occasions. The first was a business delegation of key industry executives from the Valley led by the Jewish Federation, including my mayor, San Francisco’s Gavin Newsom. In a video interview to Israel21c, Gaving expressed that the real Israel is very different than what is [...]

Israel’s Eyeblaster Files $115M Nasdaq IPO

Amid an upcoming recession, Eyeblaster, an Israeli company competing with Google and Microsoft on online campaign management solutions, has registered with the SEC for public trading on Nasdaq today. The IPO is valued around $115 million according to CNN. Shares will be listed under the ticker symbol “EYEB.” Eyeblaster said it will use the proceeds to cover [...]

Yahoo! opens R&D center in Israel, inks deal with Walla!

Following Microsoft and Google, Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO) is officially coming to Israel – with a bang. The search engine’s penetration plan has two fronts: opening an R&D center in Haifa and entering the content business through an agreement with Walla! (TASE:WALA), the second largest Israeli portal: offering news & entertainment content, email services and search, making [...]

Halloween Roundup: Google’s platform, EasyStart, Ideas08 and more

A few quick bytes of recent news that didn’t get their own post on VC Cafe:

Open Social, Maka-Maka and Google’s Attempt to Bite From the Facebook PieMarc Anderssen of Ning and blog.pmarca (highly recommended read) posted a great summary of the recent API announcement. Ning is participating in the open API initiative, along with hi5, [...]

TGIF – Friday Wrap Up and Weekly News

This week was full of tech news that deserve some VC Cafe attention. Here’s a short recap on the headlines that didn’t get their own post:Payoneer raises $3M from Greylock partners Payoneer markets manages and services prepaid MasterCard cards together with the Royal Bank of Scotland and the First Bank of Delaware. Anyone 13 [...]

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