Mobile gaming started long before the iPhone (remember ‘snake’?) with revenues of over $5 billion in 2008. I recently came across an Israeli start up called EyeSight, which is trying to grab a slice of the pie by offering touchless control…
A tiny acquisition of Israeli sport aficionados website Sportingo.com went almost unnoticed in the blogosphere. SportBuzz, the parent company of Sportingo which also owns the blog Caught Offsite as well as the video site Get Sport, was sold for several millions to UK-based Tixdaq.com, an…
Last weekend was a double Bank Holiday in the UK (don’t ask me why they call it Bank holiday), which means everyone was on vacation from Thursday to Tuesday. Great start to the week. Below are the headlines that caught…
eToro’s Forex Trading Platform Secures $6.3M # Meet the SEMBA2010 class at London Business School: # Really funny video… in a bad way. News Reporters Getting OWNED # Who is going to make Shortened URLs display the…
The California Israel Chamber of Commerce (CICC) is launching the third annual IsraelWebTour from April 20-23, 2009 in the Silicon Valley. The focus this year is on growth companies, who have the potential to significantly expand their presence in the…
As Passover is here and spring as sprung, we thought it was a good enough reason to collate all the recent blogosphere buzz on Israeli start ups. A small counrty with lots of tech, Israel caught some headlines in recent…
Ask any IT organization, and you’ll find that QA is often a bottle neck in rolling out products. I know, as one of my early jobs in the IT industry was as a QA tester. It had its perks:…
Israel-based eToro has secured $6.3 million in Series B financing from BRM Group, Cubit Investments and other unnamed investors. eToro offers an online financial trading platform that helps less experienced traders to easily conduct foreign exchange trades via a simple user interface. eToro’s interface…
George Soros On ‘The Financial Crisis of Our Lifetime’ # MSFT will spend $100 million on marketing for its search engine – it didn’t work for Ask, why would it work for them? # How to Win 3…
Red Herring Magazine published the Red Herring 100, a list of the most promising private tech and biotech start ups in EMEA. 16 Israeli start ups made the list in 2009, alongside heavyweight companies from across Europe. And the winners are: ActionBase…
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