By David Shamah
When the GSM Association – sponsors of next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona – hands out awards, it splits the world into four regions, presenting top prizes to the world’s best cellphone technologies and applications made by companies that hail from each region. Two companies are chosen from each region – the Americas (North and South), Asia Pacific (India, Korea, Singapore, etc.), EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) – and Israel. Like a medieval map of the world showing Jerusalem as its center, Israeli hi-tech advocate Yael Shany says that “according to the GSMA, Israel is a continent [...]
By David Shamah
MyBrandz is building a social community around the brands consumers use, know, and love in their everyday lives – independent of the brand maker’s influence or control. Just how much do people love their brandz? Enough to get the corporate logos of their favorite brands and products tattooed on their bodies!
By David Shamah
Who says the day of the dot com millionaire is past? Penina First just won a $250,000 prize package in cash and services for coming up with the most innovative web startup idea this year – Day-Job, a service that will allow people who are looking for short-term help to connect with a large workforce of temps who need some quick cash, but don’t want to make long-term job commitments.
By David Shamah
The winner of the Exit ‘09 hi-tech innovation contest gets a fantastic package of services worth $250,000! The startup chosen by fans and judges gets $100,000 in cash, and a package of services provided by some of the top companies in Israel worth $150,000.
