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Cyber ​​company Orca Security closed a $ 550 million capital raising round, valued at $ 1.8 billion. This is an extension of a series C round that was announced earlier this year in the amount of $ 210 million. The company has since expanded its round by raising an additional $ 340 million, which has increased the company's value by about 50%. In total, Orca has raised $ 640 million since its inception, $ 605 million of which has been raised in less than a year. The round was led by the Singapore Government Investment Fund Temasek. Which is one of the largest investors in the world,...

Microsoft Israel Research and Development announced on Wednesday that it intends to double the number of its employees in the next four years - from about 2,000 to about 4,500. Due to the expected jump in the number of employees, Microsoft has announced that it will open five new development centers in Israel in the coming years. The company will establish a new campus in Tel Aviv that will be spread over 25,000 square meters and will house more than 1,000 employees. A new center in Herzliya will be built with a size of 17,000 square meters that will accommodate 1,000 employees as well...

After a year and a half of partial distance learning, the academic year opened on Sunday and hundreds of thousands of students will fill the campuses and study in classrooms. The studies will take place under the rules of the "green character". Thus, higher education institutions have announced that most of the learning will take place on campuses, but they intend to incorporate distance learning on a limited scale as well. 350,000 students are expected to study in the current academic year at 59 institutions of higher learning. This is an increase of four percent compared to the previous...

After eight years of parking, Israel is back on the map with the Nobel Prize - but as in the previous time, this time too it is a "semi-Israeli" win: Prof. Josh Angrist from MIT, an Israeli-American, became the 13th Israeli to win the most prestigious award , Even though he dropped out of his first year as a graduate student at the Hebrew University. The announcement in Stockholm of Prof. Angrist's win joins the winning of 12 other Israelis. So far, the prize is awarded annually to selected personalities for their contribution to science, literature, and humanity as a whole, the author SY...

The cyber ransom event in Hillel-Yaffe hospital is probably the most serious cyber event in the Israeli health system to date.The teams of cyber experts continue to work on rehabilitating the systems and returning to activity quickly. So far it is known that a group of hackers is relatively new, it is responsible for the attack and it is probably also valid for a hospital in the USA. The investigation is still in progress. At this point, both the Ministry of Health and the cyber array have issued preliminary guidelines to other medical institutions. Prof. Nachman Ash, Director General of...

The Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Innovation agreed on a basket of benefits for the advancement of the Israeli high-tech industry. The government will promote three legislative amendments designed to strengthen and promote Israeli high-tech as a key engine of growth in the economy. The Ministry of Finance has issued a memorandum of law for public comments that includes three legislative amendments: 1. "Angel Law": granting a tax credit to an investor in a start-up company. This is first and foremost in order to encourage first-round investments ("pre seed"...

After a long period of information leaks, Intel officially announced the launch of Alder Lake, the new generation of PC processors. This is the 12th generation of Intel Core processors, the successor to the previous generation (Rocket Lake). The new series of processors will be designed for PCs, desktops and laptops. In a press release, Intel (+ 1.71% 137.1) estimated that the processors would generate revenue in the order of tens of billions of dollars. Intel's big challenge will be to prove that the new processors address and close the gaps with the new AMD and Apple processors

The sites that were attacked on Tuesday by the group of hackers affiliated with Iran have not yet returned to work, meanwhile new and worrying details about the hacking of the dating site for the gay homosexual community "Atraf" have been revealed - and the hackers themselves are launching another $ 1 million payment demand. On Sunday afternoon, the telegram group of the hacker group Black Shadow wrote that "so far no one from the Israeli government or Cyberserve has contacted us. Obviously this is not an important issue for them. We know about the concern regarding Atraf's database, and...

Dun & Bradstreet reveals that the best high-tech companies and startups to work for. In the ranking of high-tech companies Microsoft retains the first place for the third year in a row. Google is ranked second and IronSource third. Salesforce jumped from the 10th place to 4th, Palo Alto jumped 7 places and is placed fifth. Monday rose from 16th place to the 8th. In the ranking of startups for the first time the ranking is divided into startups up to 100 employees and startups over 100 employees. Eko is First in the ranking of the best startups with up to 100 employees. Joytunes opens the...

On Wednesday afternoon, the US Department of Commerce dropped a bombshell: it announced that two Israeli companies, NSO and Kandiro, were blacklisted as entities acting against the national interest of the United States, in light of repression aided by the company in authoritarian countries and against democracies. "Foreign governments have served as a means of repression and silence in authoritarian regimes and as a tool against regime opponents, journalists and exiled activists." The decision means that companies will have to issue a special license to trade in the US, but it will also...