CTech's Sunday Roundup of Israeli Tech News
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Interview | Architect sees an “infinite scale” in the design of spiral Tel Aviv tower. A person standing at the top of this spiral-shaped 340-meter high Tel Aviv tower will be able to see Jerusalem. Read more
James von Klemperer. Photo: Orel Cohen
Opinion | Silicon Valley or New York: for many Israeli startups this is no longer the question. Israeli startups find attractive landing pads in the U.S. outside the major tech hubs, in cities such as Detroit, Tampa, and Atlanta. Read more
James von Klemperer. Photo: Orel Cohen Attunity CEO talks up Qlik deal. On Thursday, Attunity announced a deal to be acquired by data analytics company Qlik for $560 million. Read more
Tel Aviv to pilot an electric car charging road. The city is collaborating with ElectReon Wireless, which offers a real-time wireless electrification system for electric transportation. Read more
Waze partners with WPP to offer en route ads to drivers. As part of the partnerships, Waze users will receive en route messaging directing them to nearby retail locations. Read more
Tips | Your very first hackathon. Drawing on his own experience organizing a hackathon at online marketing company Natural Intelligence, Yoav Tzuker, head of innovation at the company, shares six tips to make your event successful and productive. Read more
Code management company JFrog acquires DevOps startup Shippable. Shippable employees will join JFrog global teams, according to the companies’ statement. Read more
Cancer freezing company IceCure raises just third of planned offering. IceCure develops an ultrasound imaging-guided probe that injects liquid nitrogen into a tumor, freezing its tissue. Read more
Agriculture equipment company Valmont partners with machine vision startup Prospera. Prospera’s technologies will be integrated into Valmont’s central pivot irrigation systems, offering farmers machine learning-based real-time crop diagnosis and treatment recommendation. Read more
North Korea attacking Russia-based companies, Check Point says. Check Point links the “suspicious activity” to the North Korean hacking group Lazarus. Read more
Opinion | Is space the final frontier for copyright and patent law? Space, in general, represents an inherent problem for patents, as they are fundamentally territorial, while space is axiomatically extraterritorial to all countries, writes researcher Dov Greenbaum. Read more
Video | Israeli feline ticket inspector looking for new home, report says. “Mitzi,” a calico cat living at a train station in central Israel, became famous when a video of it “manning” the ticket inspection machine went viral on social media. Read more
Election | Netanyahu to speak at AIPAC’s 2019 annual conference. AIPAC announced the Israeli Prime Minister’s address just one day after it criticized an alliance he formulated with an Israeli ultra-nationalist political party. Read more
WeTechBerlin
Autonomous cars will not hit the market for a long time, says Porsche executive. Watch the video
In ten years, 30% of cars will be electric, says SoftWheel vice president. Watch the video
Men, this algorithm wants to help you pick out clothes. Watch the video
