A billion-dollar Israeli company
2014 earnings for Israel’s NICE Systems reached $1.0124 billion, up from $950 million for the previous year. NICE specializes in data and voice security and analysis.
Huge demand for Israeli hi-tech jobs
Impressive success in Israel’s high-tech industry boosted demand for employees by 12% in 2014, compared with 2013. Salaries of mobile developers rose by 10-30%.
Reinforcing the rain in Spain
A delegation of 11 Israeli water companies visited Spain, presenting technology such as filtering and purification to infrastructure companies. They impressed one Spanish multinational, Abengoa, which employs 26,000 employees in 80 countries.
Budget surplus
Israel’s Ministry of Finance announced a 5.3 billion-shekel budget surplus for Jan 2015. Tax revenues were 2.3% higher than for Jan 2014 and have been growing by 4-5% each month.
Israel – the bridge for China’s “Silk Road”
This article focuses on Israel’s pivotal role in providing China with outlets to both the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.
New factory in China’s Israeli “silicon valley”
Israeli automotive electronics company Taditel has established a new production plant in China. The plant is located in the CI3 industrial incubator initiative in Changzhou, Wujin Economic Zone (WEZ).
Intel buys German company and gets more Israeli developers
Intel’s 10,000 Israeli employees will be joined by 100 staff from the Israeli development center of Germany’s Lantiq. Intel acquired Lantiq, which previously bought Israel’s Matalink – a developer of wireless communications solutions.
Samsung invested in 8 Israeli startups in 2014
Korean giant Samsung’s revenue from TVs last year was little changed from 2013. That’s why it is seeking Israeli startups – in order to explore new business areas.
Find out if your website really “clicks”
Israel’s ClickTale provides companies with analyses of the success (or otherwise) of their websites. It shows how users behave when they use the site – does it generate enough business? ClickTale has just raised $35 million of new funding.
Don’t leave the site
Jerusalem-based startup Curiyo subtly persuades users to stay on a particular website. It places links to text on a site that tempts the user to click in order to discover useful information. But those links don’t take the user to an external site. Curiyo has just raised $1 million of new funding.