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Israeli water tech reaching America’s biggest states
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Israeli ed-tech on showcase at SXSW 2014
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Salary confidentiality reduces productivity, study shows
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Israeli video technology makes Lady Liberty safer
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Howard Bernstein: Hero of US – Israel business
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Undo button for Microsoft ID server keeps trouble at bay

March 9, 2014
7:36 pm

Salary confidentiality reduces productivity, study shows

A Maariv newspaper worker protests outside the Prime Minister's Residence. The sign reads 'insulting' -- a play on words of the newspaper Maariv. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

“Don't ask, don't tell” is a sacrosanct policy not only in the US army -- but in the workplace as well. It's considered the height of rudeness -- and crudeness -- for an employee to ask a colleague how much...

By David Shamah

March 9, 2014
6:51 pm

Israeli water tech reaching America’s biggest states

Water from the Mediterranean Sea rushes through pipes en route to being desalinated, for use across Israel (photo credit: Ben Sales/JTA)

While the major snowstorms in parts of the US and Europe this winter have gotten a lot of the headlines, a much bigger story is the ongoing drought in many parts of the world, including parts of the United...

By David Shamah

March 9, 2014
3:24 pm

Hell yeah, Tel Aviv is happy

From our blogs Before ISRAEL21c started filming its new video, “Happy Tel Aviv-Yafo,” we were worried. We’d already lined up volunteers to meet us at different locations across the city, but we also needed passersby...

By Nicky Blackburn

March 9, 2014
3:00 pm

Talking environmental tech at SXSW

Israel's desalination plant on the Mediterranean Sea at Ashkelon (Photo credit: Edi Israel /Flash90)

From our blogs It never ceases to amaze me that every time I attend a conference or event in Israel, I inevitably meet someone I had never met before who is also from the same central / south Texas region where I am based in San Antonio...

By Alan Weinkrantz

March 9, 2014
2:58 pm

Tilson’s bullish bet on SodaStream spurs stock advance

Scarlett Johansson with Sodastream's Daniel Birnbaum (photo credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images for SodaStream/via JTA)

From the web Bloomberg: Credit hedge-fund manager Whitney Tilson with the recent uptick in SodaStream shares. After the stock dropped to a 14 month low -- in part driven by the controversy surrounding a potential boycott of the company - Tilson, who runs Kase Capital Management, said that he felt the time was ripe to buy. SodaStream gained 2.7 percent last week to $40.54, its best performance in three weeks

March 9, 2014
2:50 pm

Israel’s Adama Q4 net loss widens on higher financing costs

An agricultural aircraft sprays crops with fertilizers, pesticides, and fungicides. (photo credit: Doron Horowitz/Flash90)

From the web Reuters: Adama Agricultural Solutions is a giant in crop protection, with its solutions deployed worldwide. Sales have been rising, but so have financing costs, and taxes -- and as a result, the company's net loss grew in the fourth quarter of 2013. The company is 60% Chinese owned, and 40% Israeli owned

March 9, 2014
2:36 pm

Howard Bernstein: Hero of US – Israel business

Israeli and US flags (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

From our blogs Heroes are to be admired. They are unselfish, stand up for their beliefs, take risks, and do so honorably and with courage. Heroes are people who make a difference. Chicago businessman Howard Bernstein is one such hero...

By Tom Glaser

March 9, 2014
4:22 am

US firm says 20 employees on missing Malaysia plane

This photo taken Dec. 26, 2011, shows the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER that disappeared from air traffic control screens Saturday, taking off from Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport in France. The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 carrying 239 people lost contact with air traffic control early Saturday morning, March 8, 2014 on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and international aviation authorities still hadn't located the jetliner several hours later. (photo credit: AP/Laurent Errera)

WASHINGTON -- A Texas semiconductor firm said Saturday that 20 of its employees were confirmed passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines jet that has abruptly vanished. Among the Freescale Semiconductor employees aboard Flight MH370 were 12 people from Malaysia and...

By AFP

March 8, 2014
4:25 pm

Ukrainian computers infected by powerful virus

Computer (illustrative photo: CC BY-SA HackNY, Flickr)

LONDON -- Dozens of computer networks in Ukraine have been infected by an aggressive new cyber weapon called Snake, according to expert analysis. The cyber weapon has been increasingly used since the start of this year, even before protests that...

By AFP

March 7, 2014
1:37 pm

Israeli video technology makes Lady Liberty safer

One of the HD digital video cameras deployed as part of the Total Recall surveillance system on Liberty Island (Photo credit: Courtesy)

An Israeli company is part of a security “dream team” whose collective talents are being deployed to defend one of America's greatest landmarks -- the Statue of Liberty. Briefcam, an Israeli video technology company that allows viewers to quickly parse...

By David Shamah

March 7, 2014
12:57 pm

Israeli ed-tech on showcase at SXSW 2014

Amalia Bryl (L), Head of the MindCET Accelerator Program and Avi Warshavsky (R), CEO of MindCet Ed-Tech Innovation Center

From our blogs While so much of the focus of SXSW is centered on the Interactive, Music, and Film portion, there's also an educational component to the festival that runs March 3 - 6. Known as SXSWedu, Israel's presence was there with the team from the MindCet Ed-Tech Innovation Center...

By Alan Weinkrantz

March 7, 2014
12:44 pm

Undo button for Microsoft ID server keeps trouble at bay

Michael Dubinksy (L.) and Michael Brezniuk of Semperis (Photo credit: Courtesy))

It doesn't take much for hackers to ruin a computer system these days; all they need is a small, well-placed piece of malware to exploit a weakness. If the services on affected networks are administered by Windows Active Directory,...

By David Shamah

March 7, 2014
11:05 am

Erdogan threatens to ban Facebook, YouTube

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses lawmakers at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey. (photo credit: AP Photo/File)

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's prime minister has threatened drastic steps to censor the Internet, including shutting down Facebook and YouTube, where audio recordings of his alleged conversations suggesting corruption have been leaked in the past weeks, dealing him...

By Suzan Fraser

March 7, 2014
10:23 am

Israel’s mobile price war hits Bezeq and Cellcom profits

A Bezeq satellite station in the Ella valley (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

From the web Reuters: From being charged among the highest rates in the world for cellphone and landline service just a few years ago, Israelis now pay substantially less for service than in most Western countries. With new low-cost competition, the "traditional" comm companies like Cellcom, Bezeq, and Pelephone are making less money

March 7, 2014
9:37 am

Israel’s tech-investment edge over Silicon Valley

.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) meets with Jan Koum, one of the founder of the messaging service WhatsApp, in Stanford, California on March 6, 2014. (Photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/FLASH90)

From the web Recode.net: Israel is feted for its tech innovation, but the assumption is that while Israel has great technology, it's still 'second banana' to Silicon Valley. According to a veteran US-Israel investor, Israel actually outdoes the Valley in many ways, and might be a better place for investors to put their money

Start-Up Israel Blogs

March 9, 2014, 2:41 pm

Julien Blin links Silicon Valley and Israel’s Wearables Tech space

During SXSW 2014, I connected with Julien Blin who runs a......

Alan Weinkrantz

March 9, 2014, 1:20 pm

Jerusalem start-up creates a touch keyboard for the blind

16 year-old Adi Kushnir is your regular Israeli teenager who goes to school, hangs out with friends,......

Gabi Tripolsky

March 9, 2014, 11:49 am

Purim special: Does God have an iPhone?

Are Purim jokes flights of fansy or the real deal? As explained last time,......

Yonatan Gordon

March 9, 2014, 10:25 am

Hell yeah, Tel Aviv is happy

Before ISRAEL21c started filming its new video, “Happy Tel Aviv-Yafo,” we were worried. We’d already lined......

Nicky Blackburn

March 8, 2014, 4:07 pm

San Marcos, Texas and Israel link for future collaboration in Water, agriculture, green tech, BBQ and fabulous shopping

It never ceases to amaze me that every time I attend a conference or event in Israel,......

Alan Weinkrantz

March 7, 2014, 6:42 pm

Howard Bernstein: Hero of US – Israel business

Heroes are to be admired. They are unselfish, stand up for their beliefs, take risks, and do......

Tom Glaser

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