PredictAd Leverages Israeli Partnerships for Global Growth (Israel Media Tour) (4)
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Company Name: PredictAd Founded in: 2007 Location: Raanana PredictAd is an Israeli startup backed by Yossi Vardi that was launched in 2007. Based in Raanana, the company has created an autocomplete search box plug-in that refines the search query and helps site owners generate new search revenue by providing inline text and banner ads. PredictAd is not a search engine, but rather improves the search query. The Company is led by Noam Fine, CEO, Yossi ...
A Conversation with Widget Provider Outbrain (Israel Media Tour) (2)
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Company: Outbrain Founded: 2006 Located: Netanya I had the opportunity to meet with John LoGioco, VP of Business Development at Outbrain, the free service that offers bloggers and publishers a ratings widget that can be used by visitors of their sites to rate their content. The service, which serves as a recommendation engine for readers allowing them to discover new content they might like based on the ratings they give, recently announced an analytics dashboard ...
Copenda Planning New Features for its Social Search [Israel Media Tour] (3)
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Company Name: Copenda Founded in: 2007 Location: Tel Aviv I had the chance to interview Gadi Reichman and Tal Cohen from Copenda, the Israeli startup that offers an online social people search that allows users to find new friends and dating partners across social networks and dating sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Match, Plentyoffish, and more. Gadi and Tal founded the company with David Kariv nearly a year ago when the trio noticed a trend ...
Zlango is Web 2.0 Hieroglyphics for Email, Facebook, Mobile & More [Israel Media Tour] (18)
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Company Name: Zlango Founded in: 2004 Location: Tel Aviv Zlango is an icon service that converts your plain English into icons that you can use for mobile messages, chat, and email. The Tel-Aviv based company, funded by Benchmark Capital and Accel Partners, was founded in 2004 by Yoav Lorch, whose background is in linguistics, writing and business. Lorch spent several years as a writer and translator, publishing and illustrating a handful of childrens books and ...
The Story of Sun Microsystems Israel [Israel Media Tour] (1)
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Company Name: Sun Microsystems Israel Founded in: 1994 Location: Hertzeliya Pituach, Israel I had the chance to interview Edward Resnick, Sun Microsystems‘ Regional Segment Manager in Israel. Resnick was the second employee hired for the Israel office, which has now grown to over 180 employees. In my video interview below, Resnick and I discuss Sun’s history in the country as well as the company’s shift in strategy from Web 1.0 to 2.0. Ayelet Noff, also ...
Sightix Offers B2B Social Networking Search Solution [Israel Media Tour] (1)
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Company name: Sightix Founded in: 2005 R&D Location: Netanya Sightix, a B2B search service targeting social networks, has headquartered its research and development in Netanya. The company offers a unique search engine solution for social networking sites. While Google’s algorithm is based on page rank, Sightix gives users more personalized search results based on their own social graph. Sightix’s VP of Business Development, Ari Gottesmann, explained that Israel was a natural choice for the company’s ...
Euro 2008 Fans Unite on Footbo [Israel Media Tour] (1)
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Company Name: Footbo Founded in: 2008 Location: Tel Aviv, Israel Footbo is a social network for football fans, or as they are called in the U.S., soccer fans. The site, which launched this month to coincide with the EURO 2008 tournament, is the brainchild of Raphael Honigstein, a well known football journalist based in London, who writes for England’s The Guardian, amongst other publications. Raphael teamed up with his brother Mani, who has worked in ...
fring Releases Open API to Enable New Mobile VoIP Apps [Israel Media Tour] (1)
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Company Name: fring Launched in: 2007 Location: Tel Aviv, Israel Tel-Aviv based fring announced today that they are releasing their API, allowing third-party developers the opportunity to develop new applications called fring Add-ons for the fring community. fring offers peer to peer mobile VOIP and allows users to chat, call, and transfer files from mobile to PC or mobile to mobile, completely free of charge, using the mobile devices’ Wi-Fi connection. The company has a ...
