Writer: ISRAEL21c Staff

Amobee wins WEF technology award

Mobile marketing company Amobee Media Systems has been selected as a World Economic Forum (WEF) Technology Pioneer 2010. The WEF described Amobee “as an innovator

BiondVax shares soar on flu vaccine

Patients developed antibodies against swine flu virus H1N1 and other flu strains in the clinical trial of Israeli universal flu vaccine developer BiondVax Pharmaceuticals. BiondVax

India seeks Israeli water know-how

The Indian government is set to use the latest Israeli technological advances in agriculture and irrigation in a new integrated project to be launched in the

200 journalists, travel pros at Dead Sea

Two hundred journalists and travel industry professionals from around the world are participating in an international marketing conference at the Dead Sea this weekend. The

Biodegradable stents that dissolve

An Israeli researcher has developed new biodegradable fibers that advance stent technology and brain surgery and disappear when their work is done. The new patent-pending

Broadcom buys Israeli start-up

US semiconductor company Broadcom has bought Israeli data center networking equipment developer Dune Networks for $178 million, according to Globes, Israel’s leading business daily. The

New way to rank online product reviews

A new technology called RevRank, especially suitable for ranking product reviews according to the particular needs of the person performing the search, has been presented

Leap in Parkinson’s research

Israeli researcher Dr. Sarit Larisch received the prestigious Johnson & Johnson Focus Funding grant early this month for her breakthrough research exploring the cause of

Israel to invest $4 m. in Jerusalem

Israel’s Tourism Ministry will invest 15 million shekels (close to $4 million) in 2010 in developing Jerusalem’s tourism infrastructure and promoting events to encourage domestic

Growing back a lost limb

An Israeli researcher has developed a biologically active ‘scaffolding’ of soluble fibers which could be used to regenerate lost or damaged bone and tissue.