CTech's Sunday Roundup of Israeli Tech News
Israeli cybersecurity company Forescout buys SecurityMatters; Vitec Group buys Amimon in $55 million cash deal
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Israeli cybersecurity company ForeScout buys SecurityMatters. Forescout develops and markets software for monitoring organizational IoT and OT networks. Read more
ForeScout CEO Michael DeCesare. Photo: ForeScout
ForeScout CEO Michael DeCesare. Photo: ForeScout Vitec Group buys Amimon in $55 million cash deal. Vitec has been a customer of Israel-based chipmaker Amimon since 2012. Read more
Interview | Yuri Milner sets his sights (much) higher. Since 2015, venture capitalist Yuri Milner has invested $200 million in space-related projects. He traces the new found passion to his childhood. Read more
Former Mossad director joins advisory board of Israeli spy firm Black Cube. Efraim Halevy headed Israel’s national intelligence agency from 1998 to 2002. Read more
Opinion | Stop insulting my artificial intelligence, please. A lot of companies are using the term AI to get funding and attention without really using artificial intelligence technologies, writes the co-founder of AI-based market analysis company Zirra. Read more
Israeli police recommend far-reaching indictments in German submarine case. The case is an investigation into whether high ranking officials, some related to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, engaged in bribery and fraud to promote a deal to acquire submarines and warships from German conglomerate ThyssenKrupp. Read more
Imperva’s $2.1 billion acquisition was two years in the making. A recent SEC filing by Imperva reveals new details on the company's acquisition by investment firm Thoma Bravo. Read more
Amdocs was up on Nasdaq following fourth quarter reports. The billing software company closed nearly 4% up on Nasdaq on Friday after reporting record revenues for the quarter. Read more
Tel Aviv suburb becomes unlikely hub for smart mobility. On Sunday, electric scooter-sharing company Bird became the third company to offer on-demand personal vehicles in the Israeli town of Ramat Gan. Read more
This startup is making Peter Rabbit jump out of the book. Tel Aviv-based Inception has teamed up with Penguin Random House to turn select books into augmented reality. Read more
