Brands including Barbie and Hot Wheels will be given a raft of new digital extensions. Mattel has launched a new partnership witn Israeli-founded mobile ad start-up StartApp. Start-Up is now Mattel's premiere partner for digital ...
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Privately held integrated optical communications component and sub-system developer ColorChip of Yokneam, Israel has raised $20m in new growth funding to ramp-up operations and drive an accelerated product roadmap. The funding is in ...
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Innoviz Technologies, an Israeli startup developing advanced sensors and systems enabling fully autonomous vehicles, has raised $9m in Series A financing round. Investors include Mr. Zohar Zisapel, Vertex Venture Capital, Magma Venture ...
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Separate recent discoveries by scientists have potential to generate or improve fresh water production in different ways. The ramifications could revolutionise capabilities by creating fresh water in drought and desert impacted areas. ...
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German automaker Volkswagen has invested $300m in Israeli ride hailing provider, Gett, which competes with Uber, Lyft, and Didi Chuxing. Volkswagen's investment comes months after General Motors injected $500m into privately held American ...
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Nighttime light pollution, or sky glow, is the combined light from streetlights, parking lots, malls, office buildings, stadiums and other structures that brightens night skies and drastically limits the visibility of stars. Sky glow ...
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Swiss food company Nestle is planning to acquire the remaining stake of 36.3% in Israel-based food manufacturer Osem for $840m. Nestle had originally invested in Osem around two decades ago, when it had taken 63.7% stake in the company, ...
Technology and clothing continue to evolve together. The Tel Aviv Innovation Festival brought together startup technology companies with the fashion industry. Thousands of people gathered at the Tel Aviv Innovation Festival for ...
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A design drawing of Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT) in Shantou, south China's Guangdong Province. [Photo: Xinhua] Construction began Wednesday on a technology institute cooperation between a Chinese and an ...
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Privately held integrated optical communications component and sub-system developer ColorChip of Yokneam, Israel has raised $25m in a round of growth funding. Founded in 2001 by Dr Shimon Eckhouse and professor Shlomo Rushin of the School ...
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An India startup company headed by Rohan Desle has launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund optical illusion LED bulbs. The warm white LED bulbs have a lifetime of 50,000 hours and there are seven models that backers can choose from ...
No matter what soothes your soul, the classic or beyond the mainstream, come and be spoiled for choice at the Beijing Music Festival, says Chen Jie. For music lovers, Beijing has too many choices, from high-brow classical to underground ...
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Opening night of the 18th Beijing Music Festival (BMF) took place at Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing on Thursday with a concert under the baton of noted Chinese conductor Yu Long who stands as the founder and art director of BMF. ...
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SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK (which is owned by Israeli firm Orbotech) has sold its Thermal Products business to SPP Technologies Co Ltd (SPT), a subsidiary of Sumitomo Precision Products Co Ltd (SPP) that specializes in the ...
Tags: SPTS Thermal processing systems, SPP technologies, semiconductor
A new Israeli study on the ability of a coral reef to eject its internal organs when it gets stressed could lead to advances in human tissue regeneration, especially in the digestive track. A recent Tel Aviv University study published in ...