Israeli startup Wix, which offers its users a free website building platform, has started offering Google apps to its clients – a result of cooperation with the web giant. Wix has approximately 33 million users, which can now enjoy a two-click install of apps by Google, such as Gmail.
After introducing Google Street View in major cities in Israel last year, the popular search engine now offers a wider variety of locations in Israel. The expansion includes many other Israeli towns and cities and also offers tourist attractions, such as the coral reef in Eilat.
65 years after their initial discovery, the legendary Dead Sea Scrolls are now available online for anyone who wishes to read them. The online digitized Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library is a joint project by the Israel Antiquities Authority and Google. The scrolls are available in their native languages of Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, and also in English.
Online search and advertising giant Google has opened a Startup Campus in Tel Aviv. The company describes the campus as a “one-floor event & community space and pre-accelerator program.” Google Campus TLV will cater to local early-stage startups and developers with tech talks, events and hackathons.
Odyssey Moon, the American team competing in Google’s contest of landing an unmanned civilian vehicle on the moon, has decided to remove itself from the competition and team up with Israeli contestant SpaceIL. The team is one of 24 teams from around the world who aim to land the vehicle on the moon, navigate it for 500 meter and transmit real-time images of the moon’s surface.
Magnolia Broadband has sold its beam forming Mobile Transmit Diversity (MTD) patent portfolio to Google. According to the company, the patent portfolio is based on over a decade of R&D and testing. It covers methods for increasing spectrum utilization (network capacity), expanding coverage, improving uplink transmission speeds at the cell edge and improving device battery life. Magnolia Broadband is based in New Jersey and was founded by Israeli entrepreneur Haim Harel. According to the company, the proceeds will help finance on-going R&D.
Yissum Research Development Company Ltd., the Technology Transfer Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ramot at Tel Aviv University, Ltd., the Technology Transfer Company of Tel Aviv University, and TRDF Ltd., the Technion Research and Development Foundation today announce that Google will sponsor them to conduct around 20 research projects to address the opportunities of the Internet economy, with a particular focus on the fundamentals of online auctions. Such questions include the economic effects of viral networking, the dynamics of electronic markets, and new formats of selling advertisements.