Posts Tagged: silicon wadi

Jerusalem Hopes ‘Silicon Wadi’ Will Create 10,000 Jobs
JNS.org - The first stage of the Jerusalem Municipality’s “Silicon Wadi” project, an initiative designed to set up industrial and business zones in the eastern...

Amazon Goes On Aggressive High-Tech Hiring Spree in Israel
JNS.org – The online retail giant Amazon is reportedly in the midst of a massive hiring spree in Israel and is offering unusually high salaries to...

American Defense Official: Relationship With Israel Makes US Safer
The US-Israel defense relationship makes America safer, a US defense official wrote in Defense One on Monday. This, wrote Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East Policy Matt Spence,...

New Israeli App Enables Users to Delete Sent Photos, Messages
A new Israeli app enables users to remotely delete unwanted photos or messages, Israeli business news site Globes reported on Saturday. SessMe promises to take the worry out of...

Google’s Eric Schmidt Says Tel Aviv Close Second to Silicon Valley – ‘Nowhere in the World is Comparable’
Google Inc. Chairman Eric Schmidt on Monday told a group of Israeli entrepreneurs in Tel Aviv that their city was a very close second to...

Survey: In 2013, 1,000 Start-Ups Founded in Israel; For Each Start-Up That Closes, Two More Launch
A survey of Israel's start-up eco-system revealed on Friday that 1,000 nascent ventures came to life in 2013, and for each that fails, two more...

Report: Tel Aviv’s ‘Silicon Wadi’ Follows Silicon Valley as #2 Top City for Tech Start-Ups
Ynet - The Boston Globe has named Tel Aviv the world's second best city for tech start-ups, after Silicon Valley in California. Startup Genome, a resource for...

Israel’s ‘Silicon Wadi’: Samsung Pays Tens of Millions for Israeli Internet Streaming Company Boxee
Another "Silicon Wadi" start-up was acquired by a multinational group on Thursday, with Korea's Samsung reportedly agreeing to pay about $30 million for Israeli cloud...