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Google launches Waze ride-sharing app

Posted on July 12, 2015

Google has launched a pilot carpooling service for Tel Aviv commuters. It is being offered through Israeli navigation app Waze, which Google bought in 2013 for about $1 billion, and through RideWith – a new app for passengers who are … Continue reading →

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Google’s $100m Europe fund to invest in Israeli startups

Posted on July 27, 2014

Five years after launching its Google Ventures investment fund, the Internet giant announced yesterday that it was launching a similar fund in Europe. sources informed “Globes” that Google will also use the fund to make investments in suitable Israeli start-ups. … Continue reading →

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Google buys advanced Israeli security

Posted on February 23, 2014

IT giant Google has acquired the staff and intellectual property of Israeli start-up SlickLogin. The Israeli company is developing applications using ultrasound and smartphones, to allow users more easily to login securely. SlickLogin’s founders served in the IDF elite cyber … Continue reading →

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Tel Aviv incubator develops Google Glass apps

Posted on February 9, 2014

Israeli lawyer Alexandra Gambrian is running a hi-tech incubator in Tel Aviv for eight developers, building applications that use Google Glass. Google’s new glasses are in trial mode and include a small screen, speaker and touch surface for an enhanced … Continue reading →

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Google’s new notebook has Israeli fast chips

Posted on January 26, 2014

Israel’s Altair Semiconductor has won a deal to install its 4G communications chipset in the new Chromebooks produced by the in partnership of Google and HP. The 4G chip accesses the Internet at ten times the speed of 3G chips. … Continue reading →

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Google buys Waze for over $1 billion

Posted on June 16, 2013

Traffic crowd-sourcer Waze became one of the largest purchases in Israel’s history. Waze, founded in 2008, now has nearly 50 million users. The ability to produce such a high-value application is also very good news for Israel’s growing hi-tech scene. … Continue reading →

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Google takes Peres on a personal search

Posted on March 11, 2012

Google co-founder Sergey Brin took Israel’s President Shimon Peres on a special tour of the company’s headquarters. At the start of the tour, Brin arranged a surprise for the president – a virtual journey back to his childhood in Poland. … Continue reading →

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Inside Google Israel

Posted on January 22, 2012

CJP’s Israel Advocacy of Boston went to visit Google’s Tel Aviv headquarters, which in 2005 was the first R&D centre that Google opened outside of the United States. If Google powers the Internet, that’s in no small part because Israeli … Continue reading →

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Google recognises Hebrew speech

Posted on December 18, 2011

Google has launched its voice search for Apple’s iPhones and Android in Hebrew and Arabic. The upgrade is significant; until now voice identification software could not handle Hebrew, and had to cope with Hebrew-accented English. Users will be able to … Continue reading →

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Google helps Israeli start-ups

Posted on November 27, 2011

Staring in August, Google will host roughly 20 “pre-seed” start-ups, or about 80 people, in its Tel Aviv building, for a period of a few months whilst they develop their high-tech ideas. The project will provide support at exactly the … Continue reading →

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