Shachar Peled

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Shachar Peled is a foreign affairs multimedia journalist, currently the Europe Correspondent for Israel’s News 13 and a contributor to Haaretz newspaper. She’s a former CNN producer and writer and part of the launch team of media startup i24news. For over six years, Shachar had served in Israel’s top intelligence agencies; as a lieutenant and team manager in Unit 8200 and a technology analyst for the Shin-Bet. She holds a Masters degree from the Columbia University School of Journalism.

The Anti zoom

2020 was a good year for Zoom Towards the end of the year, however, Zoom's shares were trading lower -- potentially due to profit-taking -- but also perhaps because of the many alternatives that had sprung by then like virtual mushrooms after a pandemic.

Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

As big businesses begin to measure their impact, they begin to show it is fundamental to their future business models. Based on Pitchbook data, $2 billion have been invested in impact tech startups in 2019 alone -- a 10X increase in the past 5 years -- and the industry has been growing by 50% accordingly (as opposed to 20% growth of the traditional VC industry

Will COVID-19 mainstream AR/VR?

From video conferencing tools to project management platforms, companies, institutions and individuals are becoming adjusted to remote environments. This brings back into the spotlight the technologies of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. Both have thus far failed to live up to expectations and their potential to become an integrated part of the general public’s daily routine. But could COVID-19 change that?