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(Thanks to Israel21c) US technology protection services giant Asurion has made a surprise purchase of Tel Aviv-based PC management solutions provider Soluto for an estimated $100 million.

An excellent video I must have missed due to there being so many good news stories.

At last, Dr Karnit Klug has been appointed as the successor to Professor Stanley Fischer as BoI Governor. Dr Klug is the first ever woman governor and was Prof Fischer’s preference for the position. She has been Acting Governor since Prof Fischer stepped down in June

The Bank of Israel's Composite State of the Economy Index for September increased by 0.3 percent. Data for previous months was also revised upwards due to natural gas production.

162 Israeli start-ups raised $660 million from local and foreign investors in the third quarter of 2013, the highest quarterly amount since 2000. Investment in start-ups rose 12% to $1.63 billion in January-September compared to the corresponding period last year.

Acquisitions and mergers involving Israeli companies totaled $4 billion in the first ten months of 2013 - the highest for ten years. The figure for Israeli exits was 20 percent of the US M&A market over the same period, even though investment in Israeli companies is less than 5 percent of the US total.

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(Thanks to Atid-EDI) Australia's second largest DSL broadband provider, iiNet, has picked the high performance 802.11ac Wi-Fi chip from Israel’s Celeno to enable iiNet to stream data and HD video directly from future iiNet products.

Microsoft Israel Ltd. has grown too large for its current Haifa premises and has signed a 10-year lease on a new, 12,000 square-meter building at the Matam High Tech Park in Haifa. In addition, Microsoft has a 13,000 square-meter building in Herzliya.

Tel Aviv was one of only four cities in the world to hold “CES Unveiled” - a daughter event of Las Vegas’s massively popular Consumer Electronics Show.