As the phone converges into a GPS device, people are putting away their TomTom devices and simply installing a navigation app on their 3G phone. The level of detail on these apps varies, but Israeli startup 3DVU claims to have…
London Business School’s student-run Media Club is prepping for the London Media Summit, to be held on 24th November. This year LBS has an interesting lineup of some of London’s top Media community members. The Summit is entitled “The Great…
Exciting day for Israel based Mo’minis: the company has launched its new website offering an DYI mobile game studio and announcing GameCast #1 – a rapid mobile games creation contest. The company partnered with Sun Microsystems and Orange Israel in…
For the fifth year, Loïc Le Meur’s Paris-based Internet conference Le Web 08 will choose the most promising online ventures. Last year, two Israeli firms (Ply Media and GHost) snatched two out of the top spots. This year, among the…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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,…
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…
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