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Successful exit for the Israeli cyber company Guardicore: The American company Akamai has announced that it will acquire the Israeli company in a $ 600 million cash transaction and integrate its security solution into its Zero Trust basket of solutions. The closure of the transaction, which is subject to acceptable closing conditions, is expected to occur in the fourth quarter of 2021. To the purchase amount will be added the cash in the Guardicor fund, which will be divided among the shareholders and employees, as well as an additional amount that will be used as a package for employee...

Global glitch strike began on Monday evening on Facebook platforms, including WhatsApp and Instagram. Users have reported a glitch that prevents them from accessing networks, apps or websites. After midnight, Facebook and Instagram resumed operations, and around 02:00, the WhatsApp messaging app also returned to function, about six hours after it started. "We apologize to anyone who could not use WhatsApp today," the company tweeted, "WhatsApp is starting to work slowly and carefully again. Thank you for your patience." Earlier it was written in a Facebook account: "To the huge community...

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"...

The Innovation Authority and the PLANETech community publish for the first time the climate innovation report for 2021: About 10% of the high-tech companies established in Israel in the past year develop technological technologies in the field of climate; Most of the largest funds in the world in the field of climate do not invest in Israel According to the climate report, the significant challenge for climate companies (Climate Tech) is finding funding for the project, along with difficulties in the "scalel-up" phase, finding a beta site, and regulatory barriers. Dror Bin, CEO of the...

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