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IPO or maybe not – Outbrain raises another $35M
Photo Credit: Shutterstock Outbrain, the Israeli startup specializing in web and mobile content discovery and promotion, announced today (Wednesday) the closing of its Series E round valuing in at...
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Confusion on Skype as its Twitter, Facebook and blog are hacked
Photo Credit: The Next Web The Syrian hacker group strikes again, this time with a successful breach of Skype and its associated social accounts. Unlike previous breaches, this time the group focused...
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The 2013 Geek Awards
Live streaming video by Ustream At the luxurious Na Laga’at Theater on the Jaffa Port 75 nominees in the categories of Internet, Enterprise, Mobile, Cyber-Sec, Hardware, New Startup, Rising Startup,...
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5 tools to help you master content planning
Drafting a content strategy from the ground up is a tall order. While it’s a matter of elbow grease for marketers with access to a wide variety of expertise — professional writers, analytics...
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Taboola and Outbrain set for a region by region slugfest
Comscore, that globally respected tallier of digital measurements and analytics, recently released data on the UK’s content reach landscape for the year ending 2014. The results are interesting by...
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And the Geek Award goes to…
You’ve heard of the Academy Awards and the Crunchies. In Israel, the startup community’s big night is called the Geek Awards, sponsored by Geektime. Click here for some photos from the gala event....
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It’s official: Taboola raises $117M in Series E funding, denies plans for IPO
In late December, Geektime reported that content recommendation engine Taboola was in the final stages of a $100 million funding round, ahead of a likely IPO this year. Today Taboola made it official,...
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Dynamic content marketer Keywee picks up $9.1M in Series A funding
Tel Aviv based content marketing distributor Keywee announced today that the company has successfully raised $9.1 million at the closing of their Series A round of financing. According to a statement...
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Moshe Hogeg’s Mobli launches EyeIn, a visual search engine
A visual search engine, meaning a search engine based on pictures and videos and not on search words, is hardly a new idea. While the technology for computerized recognition does not appear to be too...
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GTC2015: Can Highr help miserable hi-tech professionals find better jobs?
According to LinkedIn 80% of job candidates are passive, or in other words, currently have jobs and are not actively looking for new work. Now there’s a portal for them, particularly grumpy hi-tech...
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GTC2015: Optimalya opens up marketplace for better content
Anyone who has spent time reading articles on the Internet is already familiar with the “suggested” stories that have become a mainstay at the bottom of the page. What they may not know is that this...
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You may like this: Taboola surpasses 1.15B clicks in October
The world’s largest content discovery platform Taboola announced on Thursday that they had conquered the #1 spot on comScore’s distributed content network report for desktop, with content reaching...
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EXCLUSIVE: Everything you want to know about the most successful angel in Israel
Zohar Gilon has one of the more interesting career stories in the world of Israeli startups and investments. We recently slipped into a window in his busy schedule and met him at his seaside office in...
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Annual Report 2015: Startups and Venture Capital in Israel
The report was written by Rinat Korbet (Analyst at Geektime), Yaniv Feldman (Editor-in-Chief at Geektime) and Aner Ravon (Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Zirra). Rinat Korbet translated the...
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And the Geek Award 2016 goes to…
In Israel, the startup community’s big night is called the Geek Awards, sponsored by Geektime. It’s a mix between the Academy Awards and the Crunchies, and with a cast of sharp, smart wearing...
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Taboola ups its reporting innovation with New York Daily News
Content discovery platform Taboola has just added the New York Daily News to a list of major corporate clients referring users between websites. They join AOL, MSN and German newspaper Die Welt as one...
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In Israel, 1 out of 3 engineers wants to move to the U.S.
A new report by passive job search company Woo.io has found that 1 in 3 Israeli engineers (38%) are more than willing to look for greener pastures abroad, specifically in the U.S. The report comes...
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Outbrain outfoxes Taboola and buys out adtech startup Revee
Israeli content engine Outbrain announced Thursday morning that it bought ROI-tracking content startup Revee (@revee_nue), a Los Angeles company that had previously only raised $1 million. Outbrain has...
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Israeli Outbrain raises $45 million according to surprise announcement
Outbrain Co-Founder and CEO Yaron Galai surprised observers Tuesday with a quiet announcement about $45 million in new private equity the company had received during the first quarter of 2016. That...
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Video startup SundaySky just raised a $30 million investment – this is why...
SundaySky’s latest funding round shows just how popular mixing video and automatically personalized content can be to investors. Israeli video startup SundaySky raised a Series D funding round on...
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