Online collaboration is a crowded field packed with applications covering different angles of this very wide and not always clear need, to improve collaboration between people working together on the same stuff. Konolive is one more application struggling to penetrate…
“Invest in Israel“, Israel’s Investment Promotion Center of the Ministry of Industry, Trade & Labor, publishes a monthly newsletter with lots of good news on the Israeli market. You may have seen some of the posts on VC Cafe earlier…
PureWave Networks, an Israeli-American start up headquartered in Sillicon Valley, has managed to close a relatively large B round of $12 millionv from previous investors Eric Benhamou Benhamou Global Venturesand joined by new investors ATA Ventures and LeapFrog Ventures. To…
A few weeks ago, I attended the BVCA Tech Spin Out 2008. In several panels, UK-based VCs and government representatives, including the Minister of Science and Innovation Lord Drayson, discussed the dire state that the venture capital industry in the…
On this week’s research note we’ll touch on some of the web’s main growth drivers: search, advertising, video and… baby boomers (you’ll be surprise to find out what percentage of Facebook users are baby boomers: I just received an invitation…
For your weekend reading pleasure, I put together a short list of “pirate links”. Why pirate? because they took over my Firefox tabs and refuse to release them until they get posted somehow. Economic Downturn Despite the economic situation, 3…
It is sad but yet, must be covered. Below are some of this week’s layoff announcements for Nov 30 – Dec 5: Axismobile (closed) – fired 20 employees. (Their site is already totally blank. A must visit) Axismobile had developed…
Israeli media center start up Boxee is working hard at bringing the best TV experience onto the PC (or the Mac in this case…). The company has announced the release of Netflix for Boxee, probably one of the best ways…
Change is a natural process in companies, part of ‘business as usual’. But in the current market conditions, change might be heading at you like truck lights in a dark road, and you want to be prepared. Layoffs, restructuring, attrition…
Israeli start up uTest has announced a $5 million investment in series B led by new investors Longworth Venture Partners and Egan-Managed Capital (owned by co-founder of EMC Corp) as well as previous investors Mesco Ltd. and Massachusetts Technology Development…
