Susie Davidson, JNS.org What do Israel and Massachusetts have in common? Many recent comparisons have centered on the fact that, when the Boston Marathon bombings occurred, Bostonians got a taste for the kind of attack Israelis endure on a regular basis. To that end, Israeli trauma teams were called upon to lend their expertise in Boston following the marathon bombings. But Israeli environmental entrepreneur Yosef Abramowitz stresses a different area of common ground, explaining that both Israel and …More

Maxine Dovere, JNS.org Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai recently came to New York City to talk about his city of sun, sand, skyscrapers, and startups. With “just two minutes” on a winter afternoon to introduce the city and its entrepreneurs, he began his presentation with a weather report. Noting the damp, cold conditions, Huldai teased, “I’ve left behind the wonderful weather of Tel Aviv to talk about the startup culture that began on the day the city was born.” During this event …More

Paul Sanchez Keighley, NoCamels - Israel Innovation News You know those child geniuses who, instead of brandishing toy-soldiers and erecting Lego fortresses spend their childhood carefully taking electric devices apart, reassembling them and even further befuddling their parents by improving them? Well, Dov Moran wasn’t one of them. Dov Moran is the founder of M-Systems, the company that created the USB Flash Drive (DiskOnKey) and went on to sell it for $1.6 billion to SanDisk; he created modu, which made …More

Maya Yarowsky, NoCamels - Israel Innovation News Our voice is a fundamental engine of communication and has the potential to be the most pervasive Natural User Interface (NUI). Yet one of the main inhibitors that limit the potential of voice as the choice NUI (most of us play around with Apple’s Siri for a couple of days and then revert to typing our requests) is the often poor quality of voice input, mostly due to surrounding noise. In fact, almost all voice recognition applications (like Siri) are …More

An Israeli startup is set to make $75 million in US initial public offerings (IPO), marking the fourth new company to make strides in the American public sector this year alone. Wix is a Web site creation platform that is expected to value at $500 million once it hits Wall Street, according to insiders. JP Morgan is predicted to be a substantial early investor. Wix was created by Giora Kaplan and the brother duo Nadav and Avishai Abrahami. With offices in Tel Aviv, New York and San Francisco as well as 25 …More

Avner Meyrav, NoCamels - Israel Innovation News When we wrote about iAlbums last October, we described the young Israeli startup as the one that might finally bring the feeling of sifting through CD sleeves back into the digital area. iAlbums has now gone a step further by acquiring Loudlee, another Israeli startup that created a music streaming service. This, according to iAlbums’ co-founder, further seals it as the new “Pinterest for music,” with 11 million YouTube videos at users’ …More

Tal Sandler, NoCamels - Israeli Innovation News Do you find it hard to keep track of your dog, cat or even your goldfish? Try being a cattle farmer, keeping track of thousands of cows grazing away across vast fields. Lack of real-time information on the nutritional state of the herd, pasture quality, pregnancies and epidemics prevents farmers and ranchers from making informed decisions related to maximizing yields. Israeli company CattleSense has developed smart collar units with embedded sensors, radio …More

Jonathan Revach, NoCamels - Israeli Innovation News According to the Asian Development Bank, Asia loses around 29 billion cubic metres of urban treated water every year due to leaking pipes, valued at nine billion dollars annually. The bank says that “by cutting physical losses to half the present level, 150 million people could be supplied with already treated water.” And Asia is not the only leaking-pipe culprit, as across the world countries are facing massive water leaks. British newspapers …More

Gal Ronena, NoCamels - Israeli Innovation News How often do you find yourself asking a friend for a good recommendation? Whether it is for a nice restaurant, your mom’s birthday present or the best sandwich at your university’s cafeteria, at the end of the day, your friends are the experts you trust the most. That is what Snoox, a new website launched a month ago, relies on. Snoox was founded by Guy Poreh, VP of New Media at GitamBBDO, one of the largest advertising agencies in Israel. Snoox is a …More

Cisco has plans to purchase an Israeli startup to the tune of $475 million. The networking giant announced the news today that it will acquire Intucell, a mobile carrier organizer that allows users to manage cell networks with flexibility. The company, based in Ra’anana, is expected to fold into Cisco by the company’s third fiscal quarter of this year. “The mobile network of the future must be able to scale intelligently to address growing and often unpredictable traffic patterns, while also …More

Elana Widmann, NoCamels - Israeli Innovation News Popular content-sharing service Pinterest is a place to collect high quality images of things we love. But once these images are stored in the site’s online pinboards, what else is there to do with them? Israeli startup Bazaart wants to take these images a step further, and has created a platform that allows users to create beautiful virtual collages from photos on Pinterest. Stas Goferman, Gili Golander, Uri Kogn, and Dror Yaffe founded Bazaart in February …More

Yuk Lun Chan, NoCamels - Israeli Innovation News Fashion buffs will tell you that most shoes have a shelf life of about a year. After that, they go out of style and might as well go into the bin. Do your wallets object? So does Funkkit, an Israeli startup that has come up with customizable and removable stickers that allow you to change the design of your shoes – so that their fashion credit never expires! The customizable “FunkKit skins” or “Stickers4Sneakers” are in a custom-made …More