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Israel and UAE Join New ‘Crystal Ball’ Platform of the Counter Ransomware Initiative

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The purpose of the platform is to empower countries to predict threats, unite against cybercrimes and shape a future where security knows no borders.

Israel / Business and Economy

Google, Microsoft Top List of Israel’s Best Employers

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Rounding out the top 10 are Intel, Meta, SAP, IBM, Tidhar Group, ISR-Israel Railways, Ezer Mizion and Apple.

IDF & Security / Iran

Microsoft: Iran Hacked US and Israeli Defense Technology Companies

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Iran conducted the cyberattack “to enhance their contingency plans. Gaining access to commercial satellite imagery and proprietary shipping plans and logs could help Iran compensate for its developing satellite program.”

News Briefs / Business and Economy

Microsoft to Double its R&D Workforce in Israel

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The company is looking to expand with offices in Tel Aviv, Herzliya, Beersheva and Jerusalem.

Featured / Israel / Business and Economy / Science and Tech

Report: Tel Aviv Becoming R&D Mecca for Corporate Giants

By JNi.Media

Visa, Barclays, Amazon, Renault and Bosch have joined more than 70 international R&D centers in Tel Aviv, a city where one out of every 10 jobs is in the high-tech sector.

Israel / Haredim & Hassidim / US / Global / History / News Briefs / Media / Chabad

How 1970s Hassidic Hackers Created Worldwide Broadcast Network

By Chabad.org

This is the story of how a handful of young Hassidim set out to build a global communications network in the era before Periscope, Skype, VoIP, or even satellite or Cable TV.

Video of the Day

IDF Experiments with the Microsoft HoloLens

By Video of the Day

The IDF is learning to adapt the Microsoft HoloLens to military applications.

Terrorism / Antisemitism / News Briefs / The Knesset / Media / European Union

EU Counter-Anti-Semitism Czar: Our Goal to Allow Jews Fear-Free Life in Europe

By JNi.Media

A Rabbi of the Rabbinical Center of Europe told the EU official she cannot constantly undermine the foundations of Judaism: brit milah and kosher shechitah, and talk about wanting to eradicate anti-Semitism.

Israel / US / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Media / Science and Tech

Microsoft Buys 5th Israeli Company of the Year

By Jewish Press News Desk

Microsoft really does love Israel. The computer giant is about to buy Israeli cyber security company Secure Islands for $100-150 million, Globes reported Thursday. The purchase will be Microsoft's fifth this year and the third cyber security company. Secure Island's technology allows tracking an organization's documents through the Internet, Earlier this year, Microsoft bought the […]

Israel / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Venture Capital Fund Awards Israeli Start-Up $ 1 million

By Jewish Press News Desk

Jerusalem Ventures Partners (JVP). Israel's leading VC firm and the largest early-stage cyber-security investor in Israel, announced Wednesday that Titanium Core, an innovative startup that protects mission-critical infrastructure, has won JVP's first ever “Cybertition” cyber-security startup competition. JVP will reward Titanium with an instant $1 million Investment and a spot in JVP Cyber Labs incubator […]

Israel / US / News Briefs

Apple Confirms It Is Paying $350 Million for Prime Sense

By Jewish Press News Desk

Apple has made short shrift of recent denials of Israel’s PrimeSense gesture recognition company that it is being bought out and has and confirmed on Monday it is paying $359 million for the firm. "Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans," said Apple […]

Sponsored Posts

IDC Students Show Microsoft How to Do It Right

By Jewish Press Staff

At the annual student Design Expo at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, one project stood out - an Android app, developed by students from Israel’s Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, that leverages YouTube to let people eavesdrop on songs being played by other Clashers users they spot on the street, the bus or anywhere else.

Israel / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Business and Economy

Abbas' Adviser Calls Israel-PA High-Tech Meeting ‘Unacceptable’

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Microsoft and Cisco learn how Abbas defines ”direct talks.” Their officials are to attend an Israel-PA high-tech confab. Abbas’ adviser says it’s “unacceptable.” It gives the world the wrong impression.

The Ettinger Report

Cisco Acquired its 11th Israeli Company

By Yoram Ettinger

Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer said that Israel is a start-up center, and there is always something to challenge us there.

A Soldier's Mother

Smell the Grass

By Paula R. Stern

Israel is a land that was, according to the Bible and logic, very fertile. I believe I read somewhere that when the Romans conquered Judea and sent the Jews into exile, they salted the earth to prevent our return. I googled it...yeah, google is now a verb... and there are more than 50,000,000 references to it. I didn't click on them to see if it was true or not. The bottom line is still the same.

Business/Finance / Israel / News Briefs / SciTech

Microsoft, Israel To Sign Strategic Partnership

By Malkah Fleisher

Just ten days after the launch of Windows 8, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer arrived in Jerusalem to discuss a memorandum of understanding between his company and Israel’s Finance Ministry to form a strategic partnership to develop and promote technology.

News Briefs

Hurricane Sandy takes out Major NYC Internet Provider

By Jewish Press News Desk

Hurricane-downgraded-to-Post-tropical storm Sandy has taken out Internap, which operates a global content delivery network and data centers. Internap has emailed its customers the following warning: Please be advised that Internap's LGA11 facility is experiencing significant flooding in the sub-basement of the 75 Broad Street building as a result of Hurricane Sandy. The flooding has submerged […]

Israel / News Briefs

Technion Sues Microsoft for $6.5 Mil. over Intellectual Property

By Jacob Edelist

The Technion is going up against the technology giant, citing illegal uses of technology developed by its staff, charging: "For years, Microsoft has taken aggressive enforcement steps against anyone who held software belonging to Microsoft without legal permits, regardless of from whom and when it was purchased, their geographic location and whether they were poor or rich."

News Briefs / Electronics Today

The Face That Launched A Thousand Apps: Yours

By Malkah Fleisher

Israeli startup Umoove will soon offer a gesture-recognition technology for mobile devices that will control and steer devices by reading gentle facial and head movements, according to a report by NoCamels.

Israel / Global / News Briefs

With JP Morgan Purchase, Conduit Becomes Israel’s First Billion Dollar Internet Company

By Tibbi Singer

JP Morgan acquired a $100 million stake in Conduit from investor Yozma fund at a $1.4 billion valuation. Conduit’s cash cow is its toolbar, which the company says has been used by more than 200,000 sites, including MLB.com and Miniclip, to reach 250 million users.

Israel / SciTech

Apple Makes First Israeli Acquisition

By Malkah Fleisher

After weeks of negotiations, computer mega-giant Apple has acquired its first Israeli company, Anobit Technologies, for $390 million.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter II

By Ruchama Feuerman

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