Land of Milk, Honey and Wine: Get Familiar with Wine Funds and Israeli Wineries

Have you heard of "Wine Funds"? Today you can invest in fine wines through offshore funds based on the principle is that fine wines come in limited supply and increase in price in short bursts based on scoring or trends, rather than linearly over time. As the quantity of these wines is quickly reduced, price increases.

Live Stream from the TWS 2010 Conference, 10 Startup Finalists and 2 Winners

For the fourth consecutive year, TWS is taking place in Tel Aviv today with an impressive line up of judges, including silicon valley's most prominent angel Ron Conway and his partner David Lee (which recently got media attention for 'angelgate'), Saul Klein of Index Ventures and Seedacmp and Yair Goldfinger, founder of ICQ and Dotomi and angel investor in Israeli startups. If you're reading this on Monday the 18th, tune in to the live stream of the conference at http://www.twsconf.com/

Weekend Reads: from Innovation to Recession

How Yahoo’s Latest Acquisition Stole & Broke My Heart   [the flip side of Dapper’s acquisition by RWW] Venture Funding Shrinks Leaving Scores of ‘Walking Dead’ Firms  [founding firms are down, but IPOs might be coming back] Is the Valley Falling…

Wibiya Opens Its Platform: Will it be the new Conduit?

Wibiya, the two year old on-site social toolbar provider (held by parent company Modular Patterns), has announced it is launching a developer platform and an open API which will enable third party applications on the Wibiya toolbar. It is approaching the reach of Conduit, the successful Israeli startup providing customized downloadable toolbars, which works with 250,000 publishers and 170 million users - except that it took the latter ten years to get there....