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CTECH – Israel’s Latest Technology and Innovation News Israeli judge accuses Twitter of sexism, orders it to pay expenses in sexual harassment case. Twitter’s lawyers attacked journalist Linoy Bar Gefen’s alleged past sexual
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Israel: Early Results For COVID-19 Trial With Antibody Drug Show 90% Improvement Rate
The trial involves 12 hospitalized but non-ventilated COVID-19 patients with pneumonia; 11 of them have been discharged, Kamada says.
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CTECH – Latest Israeli Technology and Innovation News Interview | SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce talks about regulators’ role amid widespread uncertainty. Peirce believes financial innovation can ultimately decide who is included and who is
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CTECH – Latest Israeli Technology and Innovation News 250 companies and $6.5 billion: An in-depth look at Israel’s healthtech industry. Israeli healthcare startups are no longer relying solely on technology, clinical data, or IP to generate value.
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Israel: Urban Aeronautics To Develop Emergency Response Flying Vehicle With Hatzolah Air
Flying vehicles have been called the future of urban transportation in the smart mobility sector, with companies like Amazon, Tesla, and Boeing creating some of the most cutting-edge flying car technologies — from delivery drones to all-electric passenger aircraft.
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CTECH – Israel’s Latest Technology and Innovation News U.K. anti-monopoly watchdog puts the brakes on Taboola-Outbrain merger. Newly published document finds that the deal requires further inquiry, but can the sides step back now? Read more Wo
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Existing drug may downgrade COVID threat to common cold level -- Jerusalem study | The Times of Israel
Hebrew University professor says he's worked out what makes the raging virus so vicious, and how to fix it using an anti-cholesterol med; no human testing done yet
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Their best shots: Israeli efforts to invent a coronavirus vaccine, explained
With healthy hamsters and happy politicians, the Jewish state's research is going full steam ahead, and boasting of a breakthrough
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Tel Aviv, Jerusalem Rank 6th In New Global Startup Ecosystem Report
This is the first time Tel Aviv and Jerusalem were ranked together due to their geographical proximity. | NoCamels
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Israel and UAE to Cooperate in Fight Against Coronavirus
An Etihad Airways plane is seen on the tarmac after landing at Ben-Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel, June …
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Israeli doctors to blast bacteria into orbit, readying for space-based medicine
Scientists will send experiments into space, including a capsule of E. coli, with the hope of overcoming antibiotic-resistant germs and to prepare for space travelers getting sick
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This Week's Sanity Report from Israel June 14, 2020
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel June 14, 2020 So much energy is going into the Israeli ecosystem at the moment. This includes non-stop development of Covid-19 treatments and defenses, plus new life-saving cardiology and neurology innovations,
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Israeli Lab: Antiviral Drugs For Genetic Disease May Work Against Coronavirus
Researchers at the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) say that a combination of two existing antiviral drugs for Gaucher disease appear to inhibit the growth of SARS CoV-2.
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Israeli scientists think they know why virus is severe for some, mild for others
Hoping to point way to drug therapy, Weizmann team says it found cells called in to fight coronavirus in lungs may actually worsen disease, sparking 'storm' that can lead to death
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Israeli Researchers Develop Tech That Turns Tap Water Into A Strong Disinfectant
Researchers at Bar Ilan University say their method produces water-based, environmentally safe disinfectants that can kill bacteria and viruses, including coronaviruses.
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Israeli Bio-Defense Lab Says It Found An Antibody That 'Neutralizes' The Coronavirus | Health News
The Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) announced that it completed a 'groundbreaking scientific development' toward a potential COVID-19 treatment.
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Microsoft to buy Israeli cybersecurity startup CyberX
The U.S. software giant is expected to pay $165 million for the internet of things cybersecurity platform company
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Israeli Initiative Taps Into Global 'Maker Army' For Tech-Driven COVID-19 Solutions
Tikkun Olam Makers (TOM) is leveraging its vast network of tech talent to develop and manufacture affordable products to provide much-relief during the pandemic. | NoCamels
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Independence Day: 72 Israeli Technologies Fighting COVID-19 | Health News
Israel is home to close to 200 startups and companies with wide-ranging solutions to offer in the battle against the disease, not to mention the dozens of scientific initiatives.
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Israel: Touch free access for games and elevators in a post-Covid world
Israeli startup Sonarax is ready for a touchless new world with its ready-to-install ultrasonic data-transmission technology.
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Israeli Team Developing Coronavirus Vaccine Raises $12M For New Startup, To Begin Summer Trials
The new company, MigVax, is an affiliate of The Migal Galilee Research Institute and will pioneer the effort to develop the vaccine.
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Israeli researchers say they can make disinfectant from tap water
Bar-Ilan researchers electrify water to produce hypo chloric acid at defined level of acidity; patented method has not been published in science journal or subject to peer review
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Israeli innovators want to help Africans breathe through COVID-19
Medics and engineers can make ventilators with basic parts costing $500 and a downloaded blueprint designed in Israel
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CTECH – Daily Briefs on Technology, Science, Industry in Israel Can a two-day workweek eradicate coronavirus? Researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute developed a model that demonstrates that a weekly cycle of two workdays and five lockdown days
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Less travel, more talk: Startups use analytics to gauge virus impact | The Times of Israel
Israeli tech companies Moovit, Zencity, Tastewise use their tools to measure coronavirus effects on transportation, online sentiment, nutrition trends
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No Camels Israeli Innovation News – Coronavirus Tech Advances and More Technion, Weizmann Institute Join Efforts To Accelerate Coronavirus Testing Rates Posted: 18 Mar 2020 09:29 AM PDT Two of Israel’s top universities are working to roll out test
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New Israeli App Alerts Users If They've Been Exposed To Coronavirus
Track Virus crosschecks a user's paths with those of confirmed COVID-19 patients as listed by the Health Ministry.
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14 Israeli Companies Among Fast Company's 'Most Innovative' Firms In 2020
The US business magazine listed over 400 companies and organizations across 44 sectors and regions.
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Fake images can fool autonomous cars, posing risks, Israeli researchers warn
Attackers could use cheap consumer drones to project fleeting images onto roadways, fooling Tesla and Mobileye navigation systems and causing havoc, says Ben-Gurion University team
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Israeli startups are greasing the wheels of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
How did a tiny country without a significant manufacturing sector become so important to the Fourth Industrial Revolution – and how will that help us all?
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This Israeli tech helped 'grandpa' stop spilling his drink
72-year-old Will Irwin, the CEO and owner of a NY-based telemedicine firm, stopped trembling in his left hand after treatment with tech developed by Israel's Insightec
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The top 10 tech trends for 2020 - ISRAEL21c
What sectors will be disruptive and actionable in the coming year? OurCrowd experts share predictions and name Israeli firms advancing these fields.
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WATCH: Israel Unleashes New Laser Weapon That Shoots Down Drones
A military defense company in Israeli released video this week that shows off a new laser weapon that it has developed that is able to shoot down small drones, which are increasing terror threat in many parts of the world. Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
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Israeli Startup Helps Visually Impaired Navigate Indoor Spaces | Technology News
Founded in 2015, RighHear works in over 1,000 locations worldwide, mapping malls, hospitals, museums and universities to make them accessible.
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Israeli researchers find method to convert carbon-containing waste to gas
Carbon-containing waste has presented an increasingly problematic challenge for industrialized societies
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This Week's Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 9, 2020
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 9, 2020 The highlights include: A new treatment may be a future cure for Alzheimer’s and other brain diseases. Microsoft Israel is developing an app to help patients find clinical trials. WIZO celebrates
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Migraine-Zapping Device Developed By Israeli Biomedical Firm Offers Hope For Sufferers
Founded in 2016, Theranica developed a wearable device that uses smartphone-controlled electrical pulses to create a Conditioned Pain Modulation (CPM) response.
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7 Israeli Initiatives Embracing High-Tech For Holocaust Education And Remembrance
Forty-nine delegations from countries across North America, Europe, and Asia are set to converge in Jerusalem on Thursday for the Fifth World Holocaust Forum organized by the World Holocaust Forum
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Boeing Eyes Israeli Company’s Patented Propulsion Tech For ‘Flying Vehicles’
The American aerospace multinational signed an agreement with Tactical Robotics, a subsidiary of Urban Aeronautics, to explore opportunities to develop and market its patented tech for light aircraft.
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Harvard Study: Israeli Startup's AI Tech Reduces Medical Errors, Can Save Millions | Health News
Israeli startup MedAware leverages big data and complex machine learning algorithms to analyze electronic medical records and detect and eliminate catastrophic medication errors.
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This Week's Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 5, 2020
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 5, 2020 The highlights include: An Israeli study shows that the vaccine against TB also protects against Alzheimer’s. An Israeli, non-profit cares for dementia patients individually, according to their ne
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Celebrating a decade of life-changing Israeli inventions
From Waze to cancer-busting nano-ghost cells and 3-D printed hearts, The Times of Israel takes a dive into tech that helps us get where we're going and keeps us safe and healthy
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2010-2019: Highlights From A Decade Of World-Changing Israeli Innovations
The past 10 years brought new apps, devices and a huge rise in social media use. It brought better mobile connectivity, AI, cloud computing, hardware innovations, autonomous vehicles, and so much more
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Tel Aviv Is World’s First City To Require Electric Scooters With License Plates, Helmets The Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality has issued a series of unprecedented new regulations for shared electric scooter companies, which aim to keep riders and pede
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Israeli migraine-busting device saluted as 2020 'game changer'
Netanya-based startup Theranica chosen in category of 'electro-charged therapeutics' by New York data firm CB Insights
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Israeli Tech Company Aims to Protect Vehicles From Hackers
SafeRide Technologies is working with major vehicle manufacturers to protect cars from hackers. Photo: Courtesy. Just like a smartphone or …
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This Week's Sanity Report from Israel Dec. 9, 2019
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Dec. 9, 2019 The Highlights Include: Israeli researchers have discovered a new way to destroy pancreatic tumors. A Tel Aviv conference featured the latest life-saving Israeli medical technology. Israeli technolo
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Unlike Theranos, Israeli startup's blood test device 'delivers on promise' with FDA nod
Clearance follows US clinical trials that show Tel Aviv-based Sight Diagnostics' product can do complete blood count in minutes, with lab-like accuracy, using pinprick of blood
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Israeli algorithm aids safe landing if plane engine fails
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology developed software monitors a plane’s trajectory and guides it to the best alternative landing strip.
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Israeli Company Seeks to Use Space Technology to Solve Pressing Pollution Problem on Earth
A GenCell generator. Photo: Courtesy. An Israeli company says it is using space travel technology to help solve one of …
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A Virtual Hospital, A Nav App For The Blind, An AR Microscope: Israel Showcases Digital Health Tech
Over a thousand participants gathered in Tel Aviv for the second annual Digital.Health.Now conference focused on advanced Israeli innovations in telemedicine, digital healthcare, and general wellness aided by technology. | NoCamels
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A Virtual Hospital, A Nav App For The Blind, An AR Microscope: Israel Showcases Digital Health Tech | News Brief
Over a thousand participants gathered in Tel Aviv for the second annual Digital.Health.Now conference focused on advanced Israeli innovations in telemedicine, digital healthcare, and general wellness aided by technology. | NoCamels
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Israeli team uses silicon chip to deliver Alzheimer's-busting protein to brain
In Technion, Bar-Ilan trials, nanochip ferries 'neural growth factor' -- which combats neurodegenerative diseases -- and releases it where needed, overcoming blood-brain barrier
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9 Israeli Innovations Feature On TIME Magazine's 100 Best Inventions Of 2019
The publication listed the '100 Best Inventions' of this year making the world 'better, smarter, and even a little more fun' - and nine Israeli-made creations made the cut. | NoCamels
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No Camels – Israel Innovation News for the Week These Israeli Companies Are Finding Innovative New Ways To Improve Diabetes Management And Treatment To mark World Diabetes Day, NoCamels took a closer look at Israel’s role in advancing diabetes
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Translating Research Into Real-World Innovation: 5 Lessons To Learn From Israel's Success
In this guest post, Dr. Mark Shmulevich of the Zimin Institutes says scientific breakthroughs are the key to solving pressing global problems such as climate change and care for aging populations. | NoCamels
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These Israeli Companies Are Finding Innovative Ways To Improve Diabetes Care, Treatment
A number of Israeli firms are tackling diabetes with AI, stem cell therapy, and other cutting-edge methods to manage the disease. | NoCamels
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7 Smart Business Ideas You'll Wish You'd Thought of First--and the Companies That Did
These startups came up with unique business models--and they turned out to be wildly lucrative.
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Israeli company that makes water out of thin air signs deal with Uzbekistan | The Times of Israel
Dry, landlocked Central Asian nation to buy thousands of Watergen atmospheric water generators in deal likely worth several million dollars
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Israeli Radiation Protection Space Vest To Make Debut On International Space Station | News Brief
A prototype of the AstroRad vest, developed by US-Israeli startup StemRad, will be sent to space on November 2 for feedback on its ergonomic features. | NoCamels
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Intel Selects 9 Israeli Startups For 1st Cycle Of New Accelerator Program 'Ignite'
The startups were selected out of 160 companies that applied to participate, followed by a round of 15 finalists, the company said. | NoCamels
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No Camels Israeli Innovation Weekly News NoCamels Israel Is Sending Its Biggest Delegation Yet To The 2020 Summer Olympics In Tokyo With at least 85 athletes competing in 18 different sports, it is definitely the largest group Israel will be seeing off at
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This Week's Sanity Report from Israel Oct. 13 2019
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Oct. 13 2019 The highlights include: First patient trials show new Israeli ALS treatment slows disease significantly. Surgeons have used Israeli virtual reality system to treat thousands of patients. Three typic
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The Easiest Way To Start A Company? Five Trend-Spotting Insights To Help You Spot And Ride A Trend Wave.
Understanding how to spot and leverage trends to fuel your career or perhaps start a company.
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Why global brands need to be in Israel if they’re serious about innovation - ISRAEL21c
Digital marketing expert Jonathan Frenkel went to some of Israel’s biggest tech conferences and discovered an international thirst for new ideas.
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Forbes Lists 10 Israeli-Founded Firms Among 50 'Most Promising' AI Companies In US | Technology News
The Israeli companies listed span categories such as insurance, healthcare, cybersecurity, and Big Data. | NoCamels
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Israel's Trigo Vision Raises $22M For Checkout-Free Shopping Tech
Founded in 2017, Trigo Vision developed a computer vision platform that allows customers to grab items and go - and retailers to automatically charge them. | NoCamels
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Israeli Researchers Unveil New Coding Technique To Store Data On DNA
Researchers at the Technion and the IDC Herzliya suggest DNA could be part of a viable, long-term solution to storing the incredible amounts of data we produce every day. | NoCamels
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Water detected on potentially 'habitable' exoplanet for first time, scientists say
Scientists have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of a “super-Earth” exoplanet with potentially habitable temperatures. The discovery, which is being touted as a milestone, could have major implications in the search for life outside the Solar System
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LinkedIn CEO Says Tech Regulation Risks Stifling Innovation - Bloomberg
The combative relationship between Silicon Valley and global regulators has been at the center of attention for much of the past two years. Technology companies like Facebook Inc. and Google have drawn ire from lawmakers who say they may be abusing their
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No Camels - Israel Innovation News Top Stories This Week
No Camels – Israel Innovation News Top Stories This Week Laptops And Drones Instead Of Shovels And Hoes; Remote Workers To Lead Kibbutz Revival Israeli startup Gather is a new entrepreneurial project that wants to attract remote workers to Israel’
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This Week's Sanity Report from Israel Auguat 18 2019
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Auguat 18 2019 The highlights include: Israeli scientists have developed a new treatment for melanoma. Israel gave free sports footware to Kenyan lacrosse players. Israeli space technology is out of this world.
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Ride & Fly: US-Israeli Startup To Begin Testing Flying Vehicle In 2020
New Future Transportation, based in California and with an R&D center in Israel, recently unveiled the design of its electric, autonomous flying vehicle, the Aska. | NoCamels
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WATCH: Israeli Company Provides Simulation Training to Medical Professionals
WATCH: Israeli Company Provides Simulation Training to Medical Professionals Thanks to United with Israel An Israeli startup is now a world leader, providing simulation and training for medical professionals from the field of computer graphics – and sav
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Israeli startup uses ultrasound waves to reduce Parkinson’s tremors | The Times of Israel
Tirat Carmel, Israel-based Insightec got FDA nod in 2016 after clinical study showed treatment is effective and safe
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539 multinationals operate in Israel, view nation as go-to place for ideas
Report by industry tracker maps activities of global firms and tracks evolution of their activities in Startup Nation
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Tel Aviv University researchers discover path to new epilepsy treatment | The Jerusalem post
The findings were published on Monday in peer-reviewed scientific journal Neuron.
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Strong Start: Israeli Companies Raise $1.55B In 1st Quarter Of 2019 | Technology News
A new IVC and ZAG-S&W report says this year's first three months were marked by an increase in later-stage deals. | NoCamels
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This millennial's company makes millions buying from Walmart and reselling on Amazon
How a 30-year-old was able to flip products from Walmart's clearance aisles on Amazon to the tune of $6 million a year.
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5 Simple Ways to Identify Business Ideas That Could (Really) Change the World
Want to come up with a world-changing business idea? First step, think locally. What exactly does your community need?
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Facebook Acquires Israeli Messaging Platform Startup Redkix For $100M | Technology News
The Israeli company will join Workplace by Facebook, the tech giant's answer to popular collaboration service Slack.
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Former Israeli soldiers use AI to wage war on convenience store lines
We spend two years of our lives waiting in lines. Enough is enough! Trigo Vision, an AI startup with a team of warriors at the helm, is here to kill queues.
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The comic book artists that fuelled a century of science innovation
In 1905, Scientific American ran an intriguing advertisement from the Electro Importing company. “Everything for the Experimenter,” it boasted. “We give you the opportunity to tick yourself up to the head of a future wireless telegraph company as di
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5 technologies that are transforming corporate learning | HR Dive
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How 2 former college roommates are helping people to get cheap lunches with their MealPal app
Mary Biggins and Katie Ghelli launched MealPal in New York last year. It has been backed with $35 million (£26 million)
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This Startup Wants to Neutralize Your Phone—and Un-change the World
Yondr restricts smartphone use in places where the people in charge don’t want it. But in allowing this, we may be compromising something about ourselves.
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Innovating music? Long Live the Limits! - walter vandervelde
Constraints stimulate creativity in music
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The best ideas show up after the dip - walter vandervelde
If there is one word that has been hot in the business world the last few years, then it is creativity. We like to state with alacrity how important we think it is. A life necessity even, in these...
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The best ideas show up after the dip
In the last decennia, the process of change has been speeding up exponentially. And still, as an organisation, you want to be a step ahead of both market and competition. Sure, creative thinking will...
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The best ideas show up after the dip
Not that long ago, a somewhat mysterious cloud shrouded creativity on the work floor. Everybody seemed to have their own definition and understanding of the word. The connotation with more artistic...
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What #Babies Know About Physics and Foreign Languages
Our kids don’t need to be taught in order to learn.
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How to Pitch to Investors - Ivanka Trump
Five tips from the experts for pitching to investors.
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Why Managers Are So Bad at Recognizing Good Ideas - The Atlantic
In most settings, criticism tends to dominate. For any idea or book or movie or what have you, the question that people discuss is what’s wrong with it, why it didn’t live up to expectations.
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Get the last bit of shampoo out of the bottle with this relieving invention
Researchers from The Ohio State University are on a mission to remove one tiny frustration from our lives with their latest invention.
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The Workplace Of The Future: Brought To You By Art, Education, Travel, And Startups | Co.Exist | ideas + impact
For offices to be places that young people want to work, companies need to look outside the business world for design ideas.
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What Was the Greatest Era for Innovation? A Brief Guided Tour - NYTimes.com
Which was a more important innovation: indoor plumbing, jet air travel or mobile phones?
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The 3 Best Ways to Grow Your Business Overnight | Inc.com
Startup success boils down to these 3 factors.
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This young director is helping one of the world's biggest media agencies to engage with startups
Hannah Blake is open innovation director at MEC Global, which employs 5,000 people worldwide and sits under the WPP umbrella.
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Israel Goes Underground For Protection
Israel has an underground hospital and is building an underground blood bank. Israel's enemies have been allowed to point thousands of destructive rockets at her.
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Samsung makes big trucks transparent in the name of road safety
Back in 2009, Russian design house Art Lebedev introduced the dramatically titled Transparentius concept for improving road safety. It was remarkably simple: put a camera on the front of large,...
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This Pizza Hut box turns into a movie projector | The Verge
Pizza Hut thinks it can do more than just bring food to your front door. It wants to deliver your entertainment for the evening, too. At least, that's the case in Hong Kong, where the pizza chain...
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7 Takeaways for Senior Talent Leaders from the White House Upskill Summit
In late April, nearly 200 employers, labor leaders, foundations, nonprofits, educators, workforce leaders, and technologists came together at the White House Upskill Summit, dedicated to helping develop and promote frontline employees.
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Guess Who Doesn’t Fit In at Work - NYTimes.com
Recruiters for top firms often define merit in their own image.
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A Kickstarter-Like Program From Adobe Funds Employee Projects | Re/code
Under the program, known as Kickbox, workers have only to raise their hand and they are given customized red boxes, each of which includes a prepaid credit card and other tools designed to help turn an idea into a shippable product.
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The man who brought us the lithium-ion battery at the age of 57 has an idea for a new one at 92 - Quartz
AUSTIN, TEXAS—The chances are you have never heard of—nor, until looking at this page, ever seen—John Bannister Goodenough. But you know his work. In fact, you almost certainly own some. Consider the last six or seven decades of technological and s
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The Last Generation of Kids That Played Outside | Nate Hanson
Consider the iPad -- The iPad was invented and built by grownups who had to play outside when they were kids. Fast forward to this current generation where the majority of kids sit inside staring at... an iPad....
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How To Know If Your Dumb Idea Will Change The World | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
Box SVP Sam Schillace shares how he quickly and cheaply experimented on an app no one wanted--that became the basis for Google Docs.
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11-Year-Old Makes An Unbreakable, Spill-Proof Cup For Her Ailing Grandfather
When Lily Born noticed her grandfather, who suffers from Parkinson's, was spilling his drinks, she decided to design him a better cup. The young...
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Documentary Orchestra without Conductor from 1972 - New York
Documentary Orchestra without Conductor from 1972 - New York
