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Can Florida startup Revcontent compete against Outbrain and Taboola?
Someone saying they are going to start a content recommendation company is only slightly less insane than someone saying they will launch a serious competitor to Coke and Pepsi. Why? Because Outbrain...
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Who were the leading investors in Israeli hi-tech during H1 of 2016?
Authors: Benny Hakak, Rinat Korbet, Yaniv Avital, and Yaniv Feldman Background and Methodology In addition to the brilliant entrepreneurs, there is no doubt that investors play a major role in the...
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Taboola acquires another Israeli startup, Commerce Sciences, to personalize...
To quote a Geektime article from July about Israeli mega startup Taboola, a leading content discovery platform that generates those “Promoted Stories” at the end of articles, Taboola’s content...
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Here were the winners of Geektime’s Geek Awards 2017, the best of Israel’s...
This year marks Geektime’s 5th annual Geek Awards, the Israeli startup ecosystem’s answer to the Crunchies. Judges for the 2017 Geek Awards included Facebook Israel GM Adi Soffer Teeni, Alon Lifshitz...
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Promoted content wars: Outbrain vs Facebook
Most of our time, whether on mobile or laptop, is spent consuming content. Brands understand that and leverage it by producing and publishing content. This helps increase their brand awareness, guide...
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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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