The video game industry was revolutionized by RockBand and Guitar Hero, the games that get you as close as possible to playing in a virtual rock band even if you never touched a music instrument. Behind these two masterpieces is Boston-based Harmonix, and native Israeli co-founder Eran Egozy. Egozy, 37 years old living in Boston, …
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Smule, the people that invented the Sonic lighter application for the iPhone, step it up a notch with Ocarina, the first networked music instrument for the iPhone. For only $0.99 cents, you will be able to enjoy two major features with the Ocarina app: 1) Play music on your phone by clicking on a set …
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San Francisco based BitTorrent, the company that could have revolutionized P2P sharing online, is falling apart. The CEO and president left and the company has fired ALL of its employees in San Francisco, says PaidContent. With $46 million in funding from Accel and DCM, BitTorrent was trying to develop Torrent entertainment, an online video service …
“If at first the idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it” – Albert Einstein In the center of our attention this week stood the US elections, leaving little space for Israeli startup headlines. Here’s a roundup of this week’s winners and losers. more layoffs: Going up: 1) iSkoot raises a whooping $19 …
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CNN.com surprised a week ago with a record level of traffic during election day. 27 million unique users flocked to CNN on November 4th, driving 276 million page views (!), five times the regular traffic volume. One of the drivers, was CNN’s introduction of Deep Space Nine -like hologram interviews. Anderson Cooper would be sitting …
Credit crunch is causing lots of startups to close their doors. As sad as it is, it raises the question: what happens to the equipment when a startup dies? Israel’s Peribanu (also known as Hand2Hand) is a second hand marketplace for excess inventory and pre-owned equipment. The idea is dead simple, yet so relevant. The …
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I was very impressed with each of these three Israeli startups when I got the invitation to test them. Even though Boxee, My6sense and Didiom are very different from one another, I’ve had compatibility issues with all of them. In a nutshell, if you don’t have a Mac and an iPhone – you’re behind the …
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Today London Business School hosted the Global Security Challenge finals, where six homeland security startups , selected from hundred of applicants, competed for a grand prize of $500K. Among the six was Israel‘s Intuview – creator of “artificial intuition” software for real-time exploitation of Arabic language documents to determine contents of intelligence value. I spoke …
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Seems like we had a little breather this past week. Markets went up a little, dollar got stronger a little and everything seemed to be going in the right direction. It was also a big week for Israeli startups in the news. Let’s recap the winners and losers of the week: Going up: Nuconomy Web …
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