Meet BreadCrumbz, An Israeli Finalist of The Adroid Developer Challenge
Welcome to VC Cafe. If you’re new around here, you may want to subscribe to our feed and get daily updates for FREE. Android is coming, and the head on competition with the iPhone takes the shape of Developer Challenges. At the end of 2007, Google announced the Android Developer Challenge, which promised to provide [...]
Sponsor Love: Launching a Web Startup? Apply for DEMO Germany
Why launch your tech innovation at DEMO Germany?
After 18 successful years in the US, DEMO was launched in Europe in 2007 … And 9 out of the 20 selected Demonstrators were from Israel! Put simply, if you’re in Europe or the Middle East, there is no better place to launch new technology or a product [...]
VC Cafe Is Still Kicking
Thanks to all those who sent emails asking on my absence in the past couple of weeks. A combination of work overload and wedding prepartions kept me away from VC Cafe, but I’m now back from vacation in L. A. with refreshed energies.
Let’s start with a few announcements:
1. The VC Cafe Network on LinkedIn is [...]
Quick: Final Tickets Available to MashBash Tel Aviv
Mashable has just released 20 final tickets for MashBash Tel Aviv - RSVP immediately if you’d like to attend.
No more tickets will be released and there will not be any available at the door. You must be on the RSVP list through Eventbrite to enter.
There’s a lot of buzz about the Mashable summer party on [...]
Bitesize Friday: Israeli Starup and High Tech Links for 5/23/08
Memorial day weekend is upon us, and most of you will probably stay away from the computer (or at least try to) for a few days. While you’re waiting for your flight or getting ready to leave the office, enjoy the Israeli linkfest below.
A story with pictures:Israeli high tech innovation centers
BusinessWeek identifies the Israeli high [...]
IAC CAP Buys Israel’s GirlSense, Targeting Tweens
IAC Consumer Applications & Portals (IAC CAP) has acquired Israel-based StarNet Interactive, parent company of Girlsense, “an ingenious fashion community for tween and teen girls that blends social networking with an artistic, inspired, virtual fashion world.” Deal terms were undisclosed.
StarNet Inteactive is a spinoff company of Gteko ltd, a company sold to Microsoft Corp [...]
Build Flash Sites On The Fly: Interview with Wix Co-CEO Allon Bloch
Let’s take a look at the evolution of user generated content on the web. In the very beginning, the was reserved for scientists. In the nineties, webmasters procreated and ruled the web. Then blogs came along and millions of people became publishers overnight, using simple html templates that required small or no coding knowledge. Israeli [...]
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 [...]
Bitesize Monday: 5 Israeli Companies Get Cash Injections
Ben Gurion once said: “In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles”. Boy was he right. Ehud Olmert’s entanglement in what seems to be a deep bribery case, is the sixth investigation opened against Israel’s prime minister since 2006. Opponents of the Kadima party are demanding Olmert’s resignation, which might [...]
Israel Turns 60, The Silicon Wadi Flourishes (See Poster)
It’s not every day that Israel celebrates sixty years of independence, and despite of global and local economic and political shocks, Israel’s economy is stronger than ever. Here are some of the reasons that make Israel and the Silicon Wadi a strong investment destination:
The Shekel is growing faster than than the dollar
Israel has 150 publicly [...]
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