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LVL 3 Dizengoff offers a sensory experience of gaming entertainment

Susman is a producer for Pixar Animation Studios – the studio that made such animated classics as the Toy Story, Cars and Incredibles franchises, – and has worked on every movie the company has made.

According to a recent report by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA), there are 178 million daily crossings on more than 47,000 structurally deficient US bridges.

The company was founded by Dor Abuhatzeira, Sagie Blonder, Raviv Raz and Ariel Avitan and employs close to 70 workers in its offices in Modiin, the United States and Australia.

RenewSenses created a new language for individuals with visual impairment to see using their ears, and the results are astounding.

Each woman-run business is taylored to a different audience and each produces a different product, most of which are directed towards women.

The company currently employs over 420 employees at its Tel Aviv and New York offices, and is planning to open a Shanghai office before the end of the year.

WhatsApp sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group last Tuesday, accusing it of helping government spies break into the phones of roughly 1,400 users across four continents.

Uzbekistan Minister of Innovation Ibrohim Abdurakhmonov signed the agreement, along with Watergen Vice President of Marketing and Sales Michael Rutman.

StemRad is behind the AstroRad vest, offering personal protective equipment for astronauts to wear beyond low Earth orbit, mitigating space radiation exposure outside the Earth’s magnetosphere.

WhatsApp has sued NSO accusing it of helping government spies break into the phones of hundreds of users across four continents in a hacking spree whose targets included top government officials.

Sources familiar with WhatsApp’s internal investigation said a “significant” portion of the known victims are high-profile government and military officials spread across at least 20 countries.

Firms have raised a total of approximately $6 b. since the beginning of the year. In 2018, hi-tech companies raised $6.35 b.

Facebook Israel’s new “Playground” hub in Tel Aviv put consumer-facing innovation at the forefront of its efforts to embrace the local start-up ecosystem.

Branson expressed his willingness to meet and learn from Israeli entrepreneurs operating in the field of space technology.

"Predicting trends is recognizing a change at the very onset and realizing that it is going to intensify and affect the entire population.”

“The future belongs to the bold who are implementing game-changing technologies,” said Minoru Murata, executive vice president, regional CEO and CTO of Toyota Tsusho.

SoftBank Group agreed to spend more than $10 billion to take over WeWork, doubling down on an ill-fated investment.

"Wealth" is defined by the annual report as the value of financial assets plus real assets – particularly housing – owned by households, minus their debt.

The seafood company Thai Union Group, the world's largest producer of canned tuna products, has committed an initial $30 million to the venture fund.

Investors around the world "are looking at Israeli stocks, but they really want to get into Israeli start-ups," OurCrowd CEO and founder Jon Medved told The Jerusalem Post.

Jerusalem is enjoying a boom in cutting-edge innovation.

"There are a lot of ways that blockchain technology can make our lives better, and make things easier to do,” says Joel S. Telpner.

Additional investors include New York-based MetaProp Ventures, American-Israeli Ground Up Ventures and California-headquartered 500 Startups.

The company plans to establish the facility south of Tel Aviv and begin operations next year.

Understanding our short-comings is just step one to self-improvement.

Idit CEO Ran Katzman said, “We see great value in helping disadvantaged populations, and we are pleased and we thank Rafael for joining in on this important project.”

The founders of Israeli tech companies dream of their shares being acquired at a big gain by a multinational on which they pay tax.

When it comes to patient care, technology is already changing so many aspects of the healthcare world, but one device has gone unnoticed and un-disrupted by technology.

WeWork, whose parent We Company lost $1.9 billion in 2018, had hoped to raise at least $3 billion in the abandoned IPO and borrow a further $6 billion in a loan from banks.

The first season of TechTalk will highlight over fifty cutting-edge Israeli companies, showcasing revolutionary technological innovations, from flying taxis to robots for the elderly.

BTG is the oldest biological pharmaceutical company in Israel.

A new list by Dun & Bradstreet shows at which companies employees are the most pleased.

Musk expects that the new Mars rocket prototype could perform missions in months.

The forecasts presented at the Conference in recent years have proven their success.

Mars has committed to investing $1 billion over the coming years to become sustainable within a generation.

In a special report presented to investors at its annual conference, JVP summarized its activities to date.

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The company was valued at the beginning of the year at $47 billion, but that figure has fallen to about $15 billion.

Uri, aged 40, was an accountant who was not very satisfied with his salary and working conditions, but he couldn’t imagine how he could change it.

John drove on his car. They ride in the bus. For someone who does not speak English perfectly, the first two sentences might seem just fine.

EarlySign is using machine learning-based algorithms from the business world and applying them to our medical data.

Leading plant-based alternatives already on the market include soy milk, oat milk, almond milk and coconut milk.

First chief innovation officer of South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics and president of Samsung NEXT, David Eun, understands innovation like nobody else.

Bethlehem conference connects local talent with international players

While the value of the deal was undisclosed, Israeli business daily cited sources estimating the deal to be worth approximately $500 million.

Trigo uses artificial intelligence and computer vision technologies to eliminate the need for checkouts and product scanning.

The country's princes have lived in the palace where Watergen was installed for over 700 years.

Arrests were made in suspicion of 'fraud, smuggling and money laundering on a significant scale,' supposedly done in the context of business activity.

Revising Neumann's supervoting rights, which give him 20 times the voting power of ordinary shareholders, was among the changes being discussed.

Amnesty has accused NSO of potentially illegal involvement in aiding oppressive governments in tracking or harassing human rights activists and journalists, NSO has rejected all of the charges.

NSO said it would from now on systematically apply procedures to identify risks that its technology could harm human rights, and then prevent or mitigate them.

"The objective is to build an open ecosystem of start-up innovation around SAP’s solutions..." says Alexa Gorman head of SAP.iO Foundries EMEA

The We Company had originally planned to go public with an all-male seven-member board, a practice major investors frown upon, saying more diverse boards make better decisions.

Zoomd has reported that significant growth, including tripling its revenue and profitability since merging with Moblin, another MarTech company, in 2017.

There are many reasons for this discrepancy, and the solution is not for the government to increase Bituach Leumi benefits substantially.

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“We realize we haven’t been fully living up to our high ideals, and for that we apologize,” Apple said Wednesday.

New electric bus routes in the southern Netherlands show Egged's growing impact on the European public transport sector.

Moovit operates in over 90 countries and 40 languages.

New FATF pronouncement shakes up the cryptocurrency market

In life, you can blame a lot of people and wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, ‘Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.’” – Howard Schultz

MDGo's latest innovation is proving to be a big help in every way from medical imaging, to drug discovery, to medication management, and even robotic surgery.

Leading carmakers realize Tel Aviv’s mobility tech hub is here to stay

Gamitee, a social plug-in for travel sites, OTAs and airlines that converts on average 5X more visitors to buyers than the travel site baseline, translating to an increase of 10% in online sales.

Mobileye’s collision avoidance system continuously monitors the road ahead and analyses the risks of forward collisions, unintended lane departures, tailgating, and pedestrian and cyclist hazards.

TriEye has developed short-wave infrared (SWIR) camera technology improving the ability of vehicles fitted with assistance systems or autonomous driving functions to see in poor weather conditions.

Intel unveiled their first AI processor, Springhill, designed at their Haifa facility and intended for large computing centers.

Sewage issues in the area surrounding the Kidron Valley in Jerusalem are uniting Jewish and Muslim residents.

"This country is not just deeply meaningful for me, but also for Facebook," said Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, who briefly lived in Israel as a young child.

The hub will seek to strengthen the relationship between Israel's civilian and defense markets.

Adapted for a range of industrial automation tasks, PLCs are widely used to control machinery on factory assembly lines, ensure high reliability control and monitor input and output devices.

The amount passengers spent on trips rose 20% while the amount Uber kept after paying its drivers increased just 4%.

“It’s hard for me to find the receipts for what I sell on the Internet.”

"Israel is such a small country that to talk about a 'periphery' is funny," said Yossi Ackerman, former head of Elbit Systems and co-founder of OpenValley.

Tel Aviv University is busy breaking down barriers between faculties that previously enjoyed little interaction.

Spacecom says it will be the most advanced satellite to provide communication services to sub-Saharan Africa.

"[The low-wage group] works overtime as a result of economic constraints," Endeweld wrote.

There are fault lines to manage, but the train is barreling forward and has left the station.

Israel is in a much better position than most countries around the world.

The case was a general class action alleging the ITA lacked authority to go back more than 10 years according to criminal rules in the Income Tax Ordinance.

"If you continue and don’t give up, that’s where the magic is – that’s where you can create products and companies that really change the world."

In May, Alice was flown from northern France, where she was assembled, to Paris. Like a human fashion model, she strutted her stuff on the runway there and attracted enormous interest.

"This is another milestone for the discovery and development of additional natural resources in the economic waters of the State of Israel," said Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz.

‘We intend to use this funding round to continue our growth, to build our sales force and perhaps open more offices in the US and Europe.’

The initiative is part of a space mission that will be carried out by the European Space Agency, in cooperation with the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology, and the company Space Pharma.

Producing one ton of UBQ material is equivalent to stopping the melting of 35 square-meters of arctic ice.

Amos-17's objective would be to provide TV, cellular and internet services to Africa, Europe and the Middle East.

There are many regions of the world that are associated with a particular industry. Israel is considered a hotbed for innovation. Here are the top 10 Israeli startups to watch next year.

Cyber security is one of the major risks for any company, fastest ROI is by investing in employee awareness.

In the second quarter, VC-backed deals notched a record $1.81 billion in 73 deals, accounting for 78% of the total amount raised in the quarter.

"For the past five years, there have been solutions promised to the community by many, yet no one has delivered," said Armstrong Williams.

Integrating haredim in the workforce is particularly critical given the rapid growth of the population, set to soar from 12% to 40% of Israel's population by 2030.