Under pressure from investors, Israeli companies are preparing for a very long winter: "We must prepare for three years without investments in high-tech" | Continue reading
The Israeli-founded company is laying off 150 of its 360 employees, half in Israel and half in the U.S. “We grew our team too fast, and we need to course correct,” said CEO Prashant Fuloria | Continue reading
The Israeli-founded company raised $530 million at an $8.5 billion valuation last year | Continue reading
Shlomit Weiss was recently appointed as senior vice president and co-general manager of Intel’s Design Engineering Group. This comes at a time when the company is at one of its lowest points, registering its first quarterly loss in 30 years. However, Weiss, the most senior Israel … | Continue reading
Mega-rounds by DriveNets, Guesty, HiBob, and Pliops brought in a massive $682 million | Continue reading
Both companies have seen their share price plummet this year and have decided to join forces, "Calcalist" has learned. ironSource went public a year ago through a SPAC merger at a valuation of $11.1 billion and is being valued at almost $5 billion in the merger | Continue reading
“We will be looking at the way our services operate to ensure we are protecting our users maximally and we will continue engaging both with law enforcement and with policy makers to ensure that legal demands for information are not abused," Google’s Keith Enright said on Sunday d … | Continue reading
Founder Eldad Fux started his development career by contributing to open-source software projects as a self-taught software developer and started Appwrite as a side project to create a single platform that helps developers focus on building their products | Continue reading
CEOs of government ministries, journalists, tycoons, corporate executives, mayors, social activists, and even the Prime Minister’s relatives, all were police targets, having their phones hacked by NSO’s spyware, prior to any investigation even opening and without any judicial aut … | Continue reading
Mayors, leaders of political protests against former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and former governmental employees, were among those tracked by police without a search or bugging warrant authorizing the surveillance | Continue reading
“We've long recognized Israel as a hotbed of strong technology and cryptography talent,” Coinbase said after securing the acquisition, believed to have cost more than $150 million | Continue reading
The Ministry of Defense has reduced the number of countries approved for export of cyber tools by Israeli companies from 102 to 37 | Continue reading
"The booming NFT market demands the creation of a new sui generis form of intellectual property protection to prevent third parties from passing off NFTs of works that are not theirs," writes Dov Greenbaum | Continue reading
Last year, the division made less than $1 billion and was considered unprofitable. IBM’s new CEO Arvind Krishna, has decided to put the focus back on more traditional areas like enterprise computing and the cloud, and anything unrelated is in danger of shutting down | Continue reading
A hack into the servers of software company Amital Data led to an attack on some 40 of its clients, including some of the country’s largest in the logistics and importing sectors | Continue reading
The Space Administration in the Ministry of Defense led the development and production of "Ofek 16", an electro-optical reconnaissance satellite with advanced capabilities | Continue reading
The Israeli cloud services company has previously raised a total of $52 million, and employs 150 people in Tel Aviv, London, and San Francisco | Continue reading
Nobel laureate and Stanford professor Michael Levitt unexpectedly became a reassuring figure in China at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic. Now he assures Israelis: statistics show the virus is on a downturn | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence is the future of the tech ecosystem, said Ady Mor-Biran, who oversees the Middle East and Africa marketing operation for Microsoft Azure | Continue reading
Taboola has agreed to pay Outbrain shareholders $250 million and will hold a 70% stake in the merged company, which will be led by Taboola founder and CEO Adam Singolda | Continue reading
Founded in 2009, Oryx developed a light detection and ranging camera system (LiDAR) for autonomous cars | Continue reading
In January, Calcalist reported that Salesforce was in talks to buy the workforce management software company for around $1.5 billion | Continue reading
One of the densest tech innovation hubs in the world, the small size of the predominantly Hebrew-speaking Israeli-market used to mean technology services came here late. 2018 signaled a wind change | Continue reading
Shared real estate company WeWork launched its first Jerusalem location just two weeks ago and had already managed to dodge a bullet in the form of wide-ranging protests from the city’s large community of ultra-Orthodox Jews | Continue reading
Some Israeli startups choose to separate leisure from work, forgoing the gaming and recreation rooms associated with tech culture | Continue reading
Early last week, Airbnb announced the company will be removing “approximately 200 listings” in Israeli settlements from its service | Continue reading
Investing in WeWork was a bet on a risky notion that blood was flowing in Facebook and Twitter feeds, in Reddit and 4Chan, writes venture capitalist Michael Eisenberg | Continue reading
Tech entrepreneur, investor, and semi-pro poker player Saar Wilf wants to overhaul the global payment system and he's banking on a digital currency called Q | Continue reading
Israel-based startup Timeless Foods makes firm disposable plastic containers for vacuum packaging of delicate foods | Continue reading
Salesforce will pay over $800 million in cash for Datorama, according to two people familiar with the matter | Continue reading
The phishing version uploaded to the Chrome Web Store targeted users of popular crypto wallet service MyEtherWallet | Continue reading
ConsenSys develops decentralized applications on open-source operating system Ethereum | Continue reading
No one can ignore the Chinese tourist, says Jenna Qian, CEO of destination marketing at China’s largest travel agency Ctrip | Continue reading
A former employee of NSO Group is accused of stealing the code of the company’s spyware, which can be used to intercept mobile phone calls and remotely control devices | Continue reading
Apple has notified Intel it will not use a mobile modem developed by the chipmaker in its next-generation mobile device | Continue reading
IBM's Project Debater, unveiled last month in a debate-style event in San Francisco, was developed at the company's Israeli research center | Continue reading
Gencell, a startup based in Israel, says it will begin installing its fuel cell systems at the base of off-grid cell towers in Kenya toward the end of this year | Continue reading
The IDF continuously increases use of off-the-shelf machines manufactured by the likes of DJI and Israeli Aeronautics | Continue reading
The DAV Foundation believes that the future of autonomous drones runs through crypto | Continue reading
Government officials have refused to be interviewed about the bill or to make public comments in its defense | Continue reading
An interview with Oren Etzioni, one of the world’s leading experts on artificial intelligence, who gives his perspective on the promise and peril of the technology | Continue reading
Listed on the App Store under “Siberia LLC” the app was created by Intel employees to help the company study user needs and behaviors | Continue reading
Slated to open within a year, the store will provide similar services to those offered by Apple retail locations worldwide | Continue reading
In a video released by the state-owned company, the drone, designed to be carried, launched and controlled by a single combatant, is seen attacking several targets in heavy wind conditions | Continue reading
In 2017, Yisrael Katz, then Israel's minister of intelligence affairs, confirmed Israel uses a predictive policing system that relies heavily on social media to identify and sometimes detain Palestinians thought to be potential attackers | Continue reading
The U.S. Treasury is accusing a number of companies of aiding the Kremlin to develop advanced offensive cyber technology | Continue reading
Tel Aviv-based Cyabra uses a deep learning and big data-based algorithm to identify patterns typical of fake profiles, avatars, or bots | Continue reading
The company describes itself as a global decentralized vegan “nation” based on blockchain technology. a national vegan flag is in the works, according to a company spokesman | Continue reading