Monthly Archives: April 2019

Israeli IT company acquires Belgium IT company

Posted on April 7, 2019

Israel’s Priority Software has acquired Belgium-based Optimize Group as part of its European expansion. Priority develops enterprise resource planning software for 75,000 companies in 40 countries. Optimize provides IT services for the steel and beverage industries. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3758619,00.html

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Tel Aviv to Budapest and Nuremberg

Posted on April 7, 2019

Ryanair will launch a 4-flights per week service from Tel Aviv to Budapest and 2-flights per week to Nuremberg – both starting in late October. Ryanair already operates 17 routes between Tel Aviv and Europe plus 15 routes from Eilat … Continue reading →

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Isrotel is building 5 new hotels in Tel Aviv

Posted on April 7, 2019

Isrotel has announced that it will increase the number of hotels it operates in Israel from 19 to 30 by 2025. Isrotel is currently building 5 hotels in Tel Aviv – a city that it says “combines business and tourism … Continue reading →

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Alibaba buys second Israeli startup

Posted on April 7, 2019

I reported previously (see here) on Israel’s Infinity Augmented Reality and that Internet giant Alibaba had invested in the startup.  Alibaba has now gone further, acquiring InfinityAR and merging it into its Israeli machine vision laboratory. Alibaba bought Israel’s Visualead … Continue reading →

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Smart sensors for Deloitte

Posted on April 7, 2019

I reported previously (see here) on the sensor technology of Israel’s PointGrab. Now, accounting giant Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has selected Israel’s PointGrab.to install its smart sensor systems to monitor activity at its U.K. and northwest Europe headquarters in London. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3758965,00.html

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Helping to sell more

Posted on April 7, 2019

Israeli-founded retail analytics company CB4 uses pre-existing point of sale data to identify demand for specific products in brick and mortar stores. When a product fails to sell to predicted demand levels, CB4 sends an alert to the store manager, … Continue reading →

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Beresheet achieves Lunar Capture

Posted on April 7, 2019

Amazing scenes as SpaceIL broadcast live the crucial maneuver that successfully placed Israel’s Beresheet spaceship into Lunar orbit at around 17:25 Israel time on 4th April. At its closest, Beresheet is just 460km (about the length of Israel) from the … Continue reading →

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Environmentally friendly plastic

Posted on April 7, 2019

Israeli chemical engineer Sharon Barak has produced a product that looks and feels like plastic but dissolves in water within minutes, and the water is drinkable. See Nas Daily’s video. https://unitedwithisrael.org/watch-israeli-engineer-creates-plastic-substitute-to-protect-environment/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lvVQnm8MGg

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Upgrading calls to emergency services

Posted on April 7, 2019

I reported previously (18th Nov) on Israel’s Carbyne and its C-Now app for contacting emergency services. Carbyne is now partnering with one of its competitors, RapidOS, to integrate its location tracking technology and other data with the Israeli company’s platform. … Continue reading →

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Breathe in before answering

Posted on April 7, 2019

Weizmann scientists have discovered that people who inhaled when presented with a visuospatial task were better at completing it than those who exhaled in the same situation. They conducted tests based upon the hypothesis that the brain prepares to process … Continue reading →

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