The new high-tech smithy

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German newspaper "Welt am Sonntag" recently wrote an extensive piece about Israeli innovation and start-up culture. Israel has become the "miracle country" for technology founders and developed to the second-largest high-tech smithy in the world after Silicon Valley. Ideas and inventions from Israel astonish the technology world again and again. Companies from all over the world want to participate in this deployment with their research and development centers. Yet the small and creative start-ups drive innovation and technological progress as well. Representative for this entrepreneurial spirit is DLD Chaiman and ICQ founder Yossi Vardi who just has been named BusinessWeek's "Start-up Guru". With over 40 years experience of co-founding, leading and participating in building over 60 high-tech companies, he is one of Israel's early entrepreneurs.

Among the companies portrayed in the "Welt am Sonntag" article is mobile Internet service & community Fring founded by our DLD friend Avi Shechter. Fring allows users to make free mobile calls over Internet data. Another company "speed-dated" by the authors on their Israel roadtrip is Comverse, the world's leading provider of software and systems enabling network-based messaging and IP communications. Start-up Extreme Reality (XTR) transforms the human body in a virtual mouse and focuses on the computer & console games market, introducing a real time 3D Human Machine Interface. Further successful tech companies are Boxee which developed a new open-source social media center and Amobee which brings advertising on mobile phones.

Interested to read more about this topic? Click here (link to German article).

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Tags: Amobee· Avi Shechter· Boxee· Comverse· dld· dld conference· dld09· Extreme Reality· fring· Israel· start-ups· Yossi Vardi

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