Silicon Valley

Pax Silica: Israel’s chance to become a must-have ally - opinion

Pax Silica offers Israel a path from protected ally of the US to indispensable partner on the global stage.

International representatives at the US-Led Pax Silica Summit.
(L-R): Joe Lonsdale, Shaun Maguire, Jordan Fried

No. 39: Shaun Maguire, Jordan Fried, and Joe Lonsdale: Catalysts of innovation

PALO ALTO Networks will pay $25 billion for CyberArk, the vast bulk of which will be paid in shares.

Israel's gold rush: Inside Palo Alto Networks’ $25b. acquisition of CyberArk

Silicon Valley

 Denial of October 7 in Silicon Valley - opinion


Google to merge mapping service Waze with maps products teams

In a letter dated July 12, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said the company would streamline processes and consolidate investments where they overlap.

WAZE, AN Israeli-developed navigation app, is just one example of the country’s innovation

Apple pays top talent huge bonuses to prevent defections to Meta

Last week, the company informed some engineers in silicon design, hardware, and select software and operations groups of the out-of-cycle bonuses, which are being issued as restricted stock units.

FILE PHOTO: The Apple Inc. logo is seen hanging at the entrance to the Apple store on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, New York, U.S., October 16, 2019

How I went from Silicon Valley to teaching the Holocaust - opinion

The author was recruited in the 80's to teach high schools and college about the Holocaust.

The entrance of the former German Nazi concentration camp in Dachau near Munich, Germany.

Facebook plans to change its name

Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about the name change at the company's annual Connect conference on October 28.

People are silhouetted as they pose with mobile devices in front of a screen projected with a Facebook logo, in this picture illustration taken in Zenica October 29, 2014.

This week in Jerusalem: 21 years coming...

A round-up of city affairs.

THE POETRY of Yehuda Amichai adorns an Emek Refaim St. lamppost.

Post-COVID joy turns to antisemitism concern at California Jewish festival

California's Golden Gate Bridge, near San Francisco

Silicon Valley tech leaders: ‘We stand against antisemitism’

“To be too Jewish in America, or to be a Jew, is still a dangerous mark,” the statement says. “As business leaders, we have a collective responsibility to stand up for the society we want."

Employees dine on the roof of Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, California October 4, 2013

California is the US king of Israeli-based unicorns

California the leading US destination for large privately-held Israeli startups. New York ranks second in the US, with 21 Israeli-founded unicorns.

Silicon Valley

Grapevine February 21, 2021: The silver lining behind the cloud

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

NAHUM GUZIK, photographed by his friend Erwin Shenkelbach, with whom he worked together at a TV station in Jerusalem.

Matricelf wins Israel's Startup World Cup contest

For the first time being held in Israel, the competition is sponsored globally by Pegasus Tech Ventures and organized locally in Israel by Tech It Forward.

Matricelf CEO Asaf Toker at the Startup World Cup competition