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מוסף עצמאות 14.4.21 צוות JoyTunes

JoyTunes joins unicorn club with $50 million round led by Google's investment arm

21.06.21|Golan Hazani
The Israeli startup’s revenue in 2020 surged to around $100 million, although the company is still believed to not be profitable. Once that happens, JoyTunes is set to target a Wall Street IPO at a valuation far higher than $1 billion
G7

The Israeli dilemma: How to react to the G7 corporate tax agreement?

07.06.21|Sophie Shulman
At some point, the startup nation will have to make a choice. Experts weigh in on its options, and possible outcome
Ivan Jakovlevic

"Dubai is a true melting pot. It's like 190 nationalities."

06.06.21|CTech
Ivan Jakovljevic, former chief development officer at STV, talks to Michael Matias about his journey from Serbia, to the US, and now Dubai
סמינר הייטק בערבה התיכונה 1

Building peaceful coexistence through tech entrepreneurship

01.06.21|Daniel Farber-Ball
For the next two weeks, Israel’s south is welcoming young Israelis and Palestinians to try and “program” a better future
נהא פאריק המנכ"לית החדשה של waze

Neha Parikh appointed as new Waze CEO

26.05.21|Meir Orbach
Parikh is the former President of Hotwire (of the Expedia Group) and replaces Noam Bardin, who announced his departure last year after eight years at the company that was acquired by Google in 2013
רו"ח יהלי רוטנברג חשב כללי משרד האוצר 32

AWS and Google set to generate 3,000 new jobs as part of project Nimbus

24.05.21|Shlomo Teitelbaum and Reuters
Israel’s government announced Monday that the tech giants officially signed the more than $1 billion deal to provide cloud services for the country’s public sector and military
עדי אהרון גילת

The Israeli scientist who is bringing Google’s Moonshot Lab to Tel-Aviv

11.05.21|Sophie Shulman
Google is setting up its "radical" lab outside the U.S. for the first time, and the project’s Head of Strategy Dr. Adi Aron Gilat, is moving back to Israel to find the right people to join
ענן אבטחת מידע

Amazon's AWS and Google big winners of Israel's $1.2 billion milestone cloud project

21.04.21|Meir Orbach and Reuters
AWS and Google beat out Microsoft, Oracle and IBM in the tender for the four-phase project known as "Nimbus"
Dror Benjamin Vidiplus Demo

Vidiplus’ presentation software is digital caffeine for ‘Zoom Fatigue’

14.04.21|James Spiro
The virtual tool is intended to keep your Zoom calls more bearable during sales pitches
עו"ד תומר יעקובסון

Programmers breathe easier after Google defeats Oracle in decade-long copyright battle

09.04.21|Daniel J. Melman
Many software and app developers supported Google in the case, emphasizing that some level of permissible use of proprietary software interfaces is necessary to create new computer products, writes Daniel Melman
רונית אטד מנכלית מיקרוסופט ישראל על רקע בניין מיקרוספט

Microsoft Israel execs rocked by Project Nimbus setback

31.03.21|Meir Orbach
The tech giant didn't even make it past the first round of the tender for Israel’s flagship project for providing cloud services for the country's entire public sector, including the military
מחשוב ענן נטאפ

Project Nimbus: Microsoft looks to be out, with Amazon and Google in it for the win

30.03.21|Meir Orbach
Israel is expected to select two providers for government services through the cloud
עמוד הבית אתר Wix וויקס בניית אתרים

Wix partners with Google to make it easier to manage business profiles

24.03.21|James Spiro
Wix’s existing partnership with Google already includes Google Analytics, Workspace, and more
מטה גוגל מאונטיין וויו קליפורניה

Gmail, Chrome, other Android apps crash, Google fixes problem after seven hours

23.03.21|CTech
The problem was caused by a system component called Android System WebView that lets Android apps display web content
אורי פרנק סגן נשיא תאגידי באינטל

Google to expand Israeli operations with new hardware development center

22.03.21|Hagar Ravet
The tech giant is set to recruit hundreds of employees under new VP of Engineering for server chip design Uri Frank
נועם ברדין על רקע מטה גוגל

Waze CEO on his decision to leave Google: “I was just worn down by the nature of the beast”

18.02.21|Elihay Vidal
The CEO shares a personal and critical post about what led him to leave the world of Corp-Tech behind
אפליקציה מסרים מיידיים סיגנל Signal ווטסאפ

WhatsApp’s new privacy settings Signal change for instant messaging

12.01.21|James Spiro
After Facebook updated its privacy settings for WhatsApp, concerned voices from Israel and the world start pondering an alternative
אורי לוין יזם מייסד ווייז

"Google's acquisition of Waze gave birth to 50 other Israeli unicorns"

31.12.20|Sophie Shulman
Israel currently boasts around 10% of the world's unicorns and Waze founder and serial entrepreneur Uri Levine believes Waze has a lot to do with that
משרדי NSO ב הרצליה

Tech giants Microsoft, Google, Dell, and Cisco join legal battle against Israel's NSO

22.12.20|Reuters
The Israeli firm's tools were "powerful, and dangerous," say the companies in an amicus brief in federal court
Big Tech Breakup

Can, or should, Facebook be broken up?

16.12.20|James Spiro
After 46 US States took the social media giant to court over antitrust laws, CTech spoke with M. Firon & Co.’s head of the Competition, Antitrust and Regulatory Affairs to discuss its future