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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 432

Microsoft Think Next

MKs Aliza Lavie (L) and Manuel Trachtenberg pose with the robot “visitor” at a session of the Knesset Science and Technology Committee, February 2, 2016 (Knesset Spokesperson)
March 3, 2016, 4:37 pm
New jobs for humans in robot era: Big data deep divers, time hackers, bio-meat factory engineers
That robots will ‘steal’ millions of jobs seems clear. But just look at the fresh employment opportunities they’ll bring
By David Shamah
A nano-satellite made in Israel (photo credit: CC BY-SA Royroy903 Wikimedia Commons)
February 28, 2016, 5:35 pm
Satellite pioneer SkyFi’s Vision: Worldwide internet access
An Israeli nano-sat start-up is betting it can bring communication technology to the entire globe for next to nothing
By David Shamah
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu site next to Bill Gates at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash 90)
February 25, 2016, 7:06 pm
Bill Gates: Israeli tech ‘changing the world’
In video call to Microsoft Israel’s annual big bash, co-founder says he’s ‘very impressed’ with Israel’s R&D
By David Shamah
Tuvia Elbaum (right) speaks at ThinkNext Tel Aviv to Dr. Harry Shum, Microsoft's top technology and reseach guru, (Photo credit: Courtesy)
April 14, 2014, 1:41 am
Mini robot printer makes waves on crowdfunding site
What started as a college class project is bringing printing into the mobile era
By David Shamah
Microsoft's Think Next event (Photo credit: Courtesy)
April 9, 2014, 6:40 pm
‘Start-up’ Microsoft sees Israel as an inspiration
Even a veteran company can learn a thing or two from the country’s entrepreneurs, MS executives say
By David Shamah
Entrepreneurs work at an accelerator in Herzliya (Photo credit: Courtesy)
December 23, 2012, 9:56 am
After first-round success, Microsoft accelerator lines up its new start-ups
Thirteen of Israel’s best start-ups are enrolled in what the software giant believes is the country’s – maybe the world’s – best program to help them succeed
By David Shamah
Izhar Gafni rides the cardboard bicycle he developed for the first time in public on stage at Microsoft's ThinkNext event. (Photo credit: Dror Garti/Flash90)
November 8, 2012, 3:21 pm
Beyond the bike
Israeli-invented origami-style reinforced cardboard could eventually replace metal, super-green bicycle inventor says
By David Shamah
Then-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (left), new Clippers owner, visits Israel in 2012. (Pictured with him is then finance minister Yuval Steinitz (photo credit: courtesy Finance Ministry spokesman)
November 5, 2012, 11:59 am
Israel, Microsoft to sign tech development agreement
CEO Steve Ballmer: ‘Technological innovation and incubation are the driving force behind Israel’s dynamic economy’
By Gabe Fisher
Yoram Ya'akobi, director of Microsoft Israel's Development Center (photo credit: Courtesy)
April 23, 2012, 4:15 pm
Microsoft’s top new tech, and its Israel connection, on display at Think Next
Microsoft showed off 40 of its new technologies at its annual innovation show — and made it clear that Israel is extremely important to the future fortunes of the company
By David Shamah
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