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Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz (L) meets with US Energy Secretary Rick Perry, July 23, 2019. (photo credit: MINISTRY OF ENERGY) X Dear Reader, As you can imagine, more people are reading The Jerusalem Post than ever before. Nevertheless, traditional business models are no longer sustainable and high-quality publications, like ours, are being …

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Wearable health technology may have started out as simple step counters, but medical device companies and startups have transformed these wearables into cutting-edge personal healthcare tools. Wearable technology can be worn as wrist-bands, watches, glasses or clothing – and the list doesn’t end there. Wearable tech is part of the larger digital health ecosystem Business …

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John Sculley was recruited as the CEO of Apple back in 1983 and presided over the company for a decade, helping to oversee the launch of wildly successful products like the Apple Macintosh, as well as more controversial moves like the initial ouster of Steve Jobs from the company. Since his time atop the Apple, …

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Veri5Digital was started by Saru Tumuluri in 2016, as an entrepreneur in residence (EIR) at Khosla Labs, in an attempt to build identity technology around Aadhaar’s digital signatures, KYC, and video KYCs. The company solves issues around KYC and identity using deep tech like artificial intelligence. “You need technology to solve the conundrum of identity. It …

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From cannabis-infused gin to ice cream, the legalization of marijuana in various parts of the world is opening up an entirely new industry. Whatever your views on this recreational drug, there can be no doubt that many companies will spring up and capitalize on this new potentially lucrative opportunity. Here we highlight seven such companies …

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Andrew Haeg has a vision: A text message and web chat platform that offers direct conversation between news consumers and news organizations, including reporters. GroundSource was cooked up while Haeg was teaching college classes, using business skills he gleaned from covering early stage companies for 13 years as a public radio journalist and a writer …

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Rock Health, a Silicon Valley venture capital fund and research firm, for the first time released a list of digital health startups that are likely to go public in the next 12 months. To come up with the list, Rock Health looked at past digital health IPOs as well as at ones that are planned. …

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Hong Kong FOR years, companies like Oracle and International Business Machines (IBM) invested heavily to build new markets in China for their industry-leading databases. Now, boosted in part by escalating trade tensions with the US, one Chinese upstart is stepping in, winning over tech giants, startups and financial institutions to its enterprise software. Beijing-based PingCAP …

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[HONG KONG] For years, companies like Oracle and International Business Machines invested heavily to build new markets in China for their industry-leading databases. Now, boosted in part by escalating US tensions, one Chinese upstart is stepping in, winning over tech giants, startups and financial institutions to its enterprise software. Beijing-based PingCAP already counts more than …

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A technology that promises to unlock the secrets of the universe, cure deadly diseases and supercharge artificial intelligence is on the horizon – and the UK is at the vanguard of efforts to make it a reality. Quantum computers, incredibly powerful machines that use miniscule particles called qubits to process information, have long been hailed …