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Google AI’s first Israeli investment

Israeli online data ownership startup Mine (reported here previously) has completed a $9.5 million funding round led by Gradient Ventures – the first time Google’s AI-focused venture fund has invested in an Israeli company. Mine has just launched its data … Continue reading

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Google’s wireless earphones have Israel inside

Israel’s DSPG makes the chip that provides Artificial Intelligence for Google’s new wireless earphones. It includes voice-activation and instant translation. DSPG also produces the chip is responsible for the entire audio system of the Panasonic Technics headset. https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/rJL2J6ciU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MmAbDJK8YY

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Google buys Israeli cloud storage company

Google is to acquire Israel-based cloud storage company Elastifile for approximately $200 million. Elastifile had already been partnering Google Cloud, plus Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/265755 https://www.elastifile.com/

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Google’s graduates

The five graduates from Google’s first Israeli Startup Residency incubator are Saillog (AI agritech), Gaviti Akyl (payments software), Agamon (medical data analysis), Mona Labs (QA for AI) and Dattor/Pairser (data compliance). They were given workspace, mentoring and access to Google … Continue reading

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Google to use Israeli bio-degradable plastic

I reported previously (see here) on the environmentally-friendly compostable packaging developed by Israeli startup TIPA. Now Google’s shopping site, Google Express, is to package purchases in TIPA’s bio-degradable plastic. UK supermarket Waitrose and others already use TIPA. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3763692,00.html

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Google Israel made a crisis into a product

During Haifa’s 2010 Carmel forest fires, Google’s Haifa R&D center used police information to integrate emergency guidelines into Google Search. In 2017, Google’s crisis response product SOS Alerts was born. It has since helped alleviate 250 global natural and man-made … Continue reading

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Google acquires Alooma

Google Cloud has signed an agreement to acquire Israel-based Alooma. Alooma’s platform lets companies stream and migrate their organizational data from multiple locations and sources into one single location in the Cloud. https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/google-announces-intent-to-acquire-alooma-to-simplify-cloud-migration https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3756732,00.html

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Joining Google in the Cloud

I reported previously (May 2016) about one Israeli startup that says it can migrate a company’s data center onto the Cloud in minutes. Here is another, Velostrata, which had been an Israeli startup, until it was recently bought by Google … Continue reading

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An alternative to Dr Google

Israeli health fund Maccabi has launched K Health – an app to give its customers medical advice that many seek currently by using search engines such as Google. The information is sourced from thousands of similar cases in Maccabi’s records … Continue reading

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Google translates using AI for Hebrew

You may have noticed an improvement in the accuracy of translating Hebrew into English using Google Translate.  Google has moved to neural machine translations (Artificial Intelligence) for Hebrew and Arabic, resulting in more natural suggestions. https://venturebeat.com/2017/03/30/google-now-provides-ai-powered-translations-for-arabic-and-hebrew/

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