* TeleMessage is an Israeli startup that enables sending SMS, Voice and Fax Messages from a PC through a browser plugin for a small fee. * How do most people search for jobs online in China? Through Meijob, an aggregator created by Israeli entrepreneurs Guy Rotberg and Barak Paz Tal. * SeeU.Tv lets users upload user generated content for mobile and offers a 10 cents revenue share for each download. * Great post on widgets and their importance during market recession by Michael Jones, CEO of Userplane. * Cellint, an Israeli startup, offers a system called TrafficSense that delivers travel times, traffic speeds and incident alerts in real-time by tracking anonymous cell phones. * Leviathan Energy, an Israeli based energy company signed a $50 million agreement to provide clean electricity to India. * I gave an interview to a Finnish Magazine a couple of weeks ago and since then found out that there’s a lot in common between Finland and Israel. * Israel moves up in the EuroMoney ranking and placed among the top 40 economies. * Israel and Italy will collaborate on tech projects through a bi-national fund. * Always wanted to write in Hebrew but didn’t know how? Ouriel Oyahon posted this link to a virtual kewyord in Hebrew. Israel also hosts research and design centers for Microsoft, IBM, and Intel – as well as Motorola, which first set up shop here back in 1964.” “Not blessed with oil reserves like many of its neighbors, Israel has constructed a powerful economy from the ground up with a pioneering tech sector, earning it the nickname “Silicon Wadi.” The country boasts the highest concentration of high-tech companies in the world outside of Silicon Valley, the most Nasdaq-listed companies outside North America, pioneering facilities such as the Weizmann Institute of Science and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and the world’s largest generic drug maker, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Globes extracted a nice piece from the report: * Businessweek ranks Israel among the top 10 hotspots in innovation, as leader in technology and pharma. * Economic stats on Israel for its sixtieth birthday, put together by IOI. Miscellaneuous – Macro level news and useful links * Israel Opportunity Investor posted an interesting interview with Carmel Sofer, a partner of Gemini Funds in Israel. * Sequoia Capital is seeking to shift strategy in a way that could potentially put it in competition with some of its existing investors. * The National Venture Capital Association ( NVCA) says that venture capital performance out-performed the public markets in Q4 2007, but warns that economic troubles might slow growth in 2008. The equity kicker shares some stats and TechCrunch UK has a comprehensive list of deals. * European Venture Investments have been holding steady. Therefore, just before I close all, below are a few of the links that have been keeping my browser busy: Venture Capital Industry Even though the speed is dramatically better, it is no excuse for having so many browser windows open. I’m testing the new version of Mozilla Firefox 3 beta 5 (you’ll be amazed how much difference there is with beta 1).
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