Israel

Music Business Resource YouLicense.com Raises Funding

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 6, 2008 - 7:21am.

Tel Aviv, Israel - YouLicense.com, an online music licensing marketplace, announced on Wednesday that it has secured an undisclosed sum of first round funding, from Ofer Media and Logia Group.

Personalized TV Developer Imagine Communications Gets $15 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 29, 2007 - 6:42am.

Cardiff by the Sea, Calif. - Imagine Communications, the developer of a personalized TV platform for broadband operators, has raised $15 million in its second round of funding, led by Court Square Ventures, Israel's Globes Online reported.

Cisco Invests in P2P Content Delivery Technology Firm Oversi

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 11, 2007 - 9:39am.

Petach Tikva, Israel - Oversi, a developer of peer-to-peer caching and content delivery technologies, announced that it has received an investment from Cisco as part of an extended $8 million second round of funding.

3G Mobile Game Developer Vollee Raises $4 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 8, 2007 - 1:39pm.

Hertzliya, Israel - Mobile game developer Vollee (formerly Game Steam) announced on Thursday that it has raised $4 million in its first round of venture capital financing, led by BlueRun Ventures with participation from Benchmark Capital.

Israel Installs Webcams at Holy Site Excavation to Allay Damage Fears

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 16, 2007 - 10:25am.

Jerusalem - Israel's Antiquities Authority has installed Internet cameras at an excavation site on hallowed ground in Jerusalem, so that anyone can monitor the work and ensure it does not negatively affect the holy site, Reuters reported. Last week, Palestinians protested the construction site, fearing it would damage the holy Muslim al-Aqsa mosque or Dome of the Rock. Israel has denied the excavation, part of a plan to create a walkway to a complex known to Jews as Temple Mount and Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif, will harm the site. "The Antiquities Authority invites the public in the country and in the world to monitor the excavations up close and to see what is being done on the ground at any given time," said Osnat Goaz, the group's spokeswoman.

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Israeli User-Generated Cartoon-Sharing Site AniBoom Raises $4.5 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 14, 2007 - 10:08am.

Los Angeles - AniBoom, an Israel-based start-up that has created a video-sharing site for user-generated Flash animation videos, has raised $4.5 million in its first round of venture capital financing, led by Evergreen Ventures, TechCrunch reported.

SMS Icon Language Developer Zlango Raises $12 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 12, 2007 - 10:05am.

Ramat Hasharon, Israel - Zlango, the developer of an icon-based language for use in SMS text messages, announced on Monday that it has raised $12 million in a new round of venture capital financing, led by Benchmark Capital and Accel Partners.

Mobile Ad Technology Developer Amobee Raises Capital

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 8, 2007 - 8:38am.

London - Amobee Media Systems, a developer of mobile phone advertising technology, has raised between $15 and $20 million in its second round of venture capital financing, Israeli business news site Globes.co.il reported.

NDS Acquires Residential Gateway Software Firm Jungo

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 4, 2006 - 2:55pm.
London - NDS, a unit of News Corp. that provides technology for digital pay-TV services, announced on Monday that it has acquired Jungo, a provider of software for residential gateways, in a deal valued at $107.5 million.

Msystems Shareholders Approve Acquisition by SanDisk

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 9, 2006 - 2:29pm.
Milpitas, Calif. - SanDisk, a maker of flash memory data storage cards, said on Wednesday that shareholders of Israel's msystems have voted to approve the company's acquisition by SanDisk.

McAfee Acquires Onigma for $20 Million

Authored by dmw on October 16, 2006 - 12:29pm.
Santa Clara, Calif. - McAfee, the larger maker of Internet security products, said on Monday that it has acquired Israeli data protection software maker Onigma for $20 million in cash. Onigma's technology is designed to monitor, report and prevent confidential data from leaving an organization. Christopher Bolin, McAfee's CTO, said that the deal will allow his company to offer clients protection against the loss of confidential data and intellectual property. The deal follows last week's retirement of George Samenuk as McAfee's chairman and CEO, and the termination of Kevin Weiss as its president following an internal probe into e company's stock option practices.

SanDisk to Acquire Flash Memory Firm Msystems for About $1.3 Billion

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 31, 2006 - 12:44pm.
Milpitas, Calif. - SanDisk, a maker of flash memory data storage cards, said that it will buy Israel's msystems for about $1.3 billion in stock.

Metalink Chip to Deliver HDTV Over Wireless Home Network

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 31, 2006 - 1:04pm.
Yakum, Israel - Chipmaker Metalink on Wednesday introduced its chipset that the company says will deliver HDTV signals over a wireless home network.

Study: eDonkey File-Sharing Network Outpacing Kazaa in Europe, Israel

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 15, 2003 - 4:13am.
Waterloo, Ontario -- While the FastTrack peer-to-peer network, which the popular Kazaa and Grokster file-sharing programs use, is the most popular among North American users, a new study from Canadian network equipment manufacturer Sandvine shows that other services like eDonkey 2000 are more popular in Europe and elsewhere. The study found that Kazaa generates more than 76% of all P2P traffic in the U.S. and Canada, and maintains 59% of traffic in the U.K., but in both Germany and Israel the eDonkey file-sharing application accounts for 52% of P2P traffic. The study also found that use of Gnutella-based file-sharing applications had declined considerably from its tally of P2P network traffic. "If a wildly popular application like Gnutella can emerge and all but disappear in less than three years, it's certainly possible that FastTrack, too, could one day be headed for history's technology dustbin," said Sandvine's Chris Colman.

Wireless Multimedia Developer Comverse To Invest $4 Million In Israel

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 8, 2003 - 7:13am.
Tel Aviv -- Comverse Technology, a provider of systems and software enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communications services, will invest $4 million to expand its operations at Ramat Hahayal, according to a report in Wednesday's Globes business newspaper. The paper said Comverse plans to hire 300 new workers to produce software and equipment for advanced multimedia services for communications networks. Separately, Comverse announced on Wednesday a deal with Portuguese wireless network operator TMN, to distribute its VoiCD music and entertainment cell phone content to TMN subscribers.