Which Israeli company is being sued by Facebook and what facemask eliminates 99% of Covid-19 particles?
CTech Daily Roundup: Israel targeting local production of Visby’s portable Covid-19 PCR test kits
Israel announces emergency stimulus program to boost employment in tech and industry. The NIS 60 million program aims to quickly train
3,000 job seekers for R&D positions and R&D support roles. Read more
Facebook. Photo: Pixabay Facebook suing Israeli company BrandTotal for harvesting users’ data. The social media giant claims BrandTotal and Israeli-founded Unimania scraped data from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Amazon, in order to sell “marketing intelligence” and other services.
Interview | Delegating the IIA to a government ministry would be an act of madness, says outgoing CEO. After four years at the head of Israel’s tech investment arm, Aharon Aharon shares his successes and failures. Read more
Game Changers: The evolution of Israel’s video game industry. Is the local gaming ecosystem ready to make the leap from casual mobile games to Triple-A titles? Read more
Israel’s aMoon leads $110 million funding round in SOPHiA GENETICS. The new funding aims to boost the medtech company’s penetration in both the U.S. and Asian markets. Read more
Sonovia claims tests prove its facemask eliminates more than 99% of Covid-19 particles. The results come after the Israeli company conducted a test with the ATCC Testing laboratory. Read more
Employer Branding | For Citi, attracting top talent meant disrupting its traditional business focus. Amit Baruch, who heads Citi’s Innovation Lab in Israel, talks to CTech about how the company pivoted from conventional banking to become a modern-day Fintech supporter. Read more
“Remote learning is failing our children”: Education expert warns of a lost generation. Video calls are no substitute for in-class education, underprivileged communities bear the brunt, says Ben-Gurion University researcher. Read more
Israeli tech entering a new age with the influx of local institutional investors. The program to incentivize investment in Israeli tech companies in early stages of sales and growth is set to result in more than $1 billion in investments in the coming year alone. Read more
