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 and more importantly, without revenue. Kampyle, the Israeli start up developing SaaS feedback analytics, offers …
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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. When a user clicks on text with the right mouse button or combination of the …
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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 interview to Israel21c, Gaving expressed that the real Israel is very different than what is …
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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 be listed under the ticker symbol “EYEB.” Eyeblaster said it will use the proceeds to cover …
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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), the second largest Israeli portal: offering news & entertainment content, email services and search, making …
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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 of the recent API announcement. Ning is participating in the open API initiative, along with …
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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 with the Royal Bank of Scotland and the First Bank of Delaware. Anyone 13 years …
“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 guru designer. Wix believes that the time has come to for everyone to produce great …
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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, keep their notes in project notebooks and create a calendar of reminders with no storage …
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Small item from Google Blogoscoped. David Hetfield reports on Google’s Tel Aviv office innaguration on June 4th. Worth noting: “Why Israel?” Highest density of computer science talent worldwide Fantastic Universities Build local market understanding Fast moving enterepreneurial business environment Great local partners…and more. Google is not alone in the holy land. Israel has been known …
