Two Israeli start ups have been selected as two of the six featured extensions for Google Wave. Google has launched Wave, its real-time communication and sharing tool, at the end of September for only 100,000 beta users, and each of…
Shopping websites are extremely sensitive to deserted shopping carts. In some cases, 60-70% of their users would add items to their cart but suddenly close the window – leaving the site owner with little information about their reasons for leaving…
While the Israeli high-tech firing wave continues, Bloomberg News Corporation founds an interesting and successful Israeli company that’s worth covering – Babylon. Babylon provides a translation tool as well as encyclopedic information and professional glossaries for text on the screen.…
Many international guests gathered in Israel last week for three parallel occasions. The first was a business delegation of key industry executives from the Valley led by the Jewish Federation, including my mayor, San Francisco’s Gavin Newsom. In a video…
Amid an upcoming recession, Eyeblaster, an Israeli company competing with Google and Microsoft on online campaign management solutions, has registered with the SEC for public trading on Nasdaq today. The IPO is valued around $115 million according to CNN. Shares will…
Following Microsoft and Google, Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO) is officially coming to Israel – with a bang. The search engine’s penetration plan has two fronts: opening an R&D center in Haifa and entering the content business through an agreement with Walla! (TASE:WALA),…
A few quick bytes of recent news that didn’t get their own post on VC Cafe: Open Social, Maka-Maka and Google’s Attempt to Bite From the Facebook PieMarc Anderssen of Ning and blog.pmarca (highly recommended read) posted a great summary…
This week was full of tech news that deserve some VC Cafe attention. Here’s a short recap on the headlines that didn’t get their own post:Payoneer raises $3M from Greylock partners Payoneer markets manages and services prepaid MasterCard cards together…
“Every time you say web 3.0 a start up dies”. Israeli stealth startup Wix.com is part of the revolution. Wix, currently in private beta, enables users to create flash-based websites without writing a single line of code or being a…
Israeli based Shvoong Homework brings ‘basecamp‘ style tools, to kids in school. SH is a social network for students that aims to keep students organized, by adding an alternative to messy notebooks. Using Shvoong Homework, students can share homework online,…
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