Author: David Rutman

NASA Teams with Israel’s Agro-Tech Company The new arrangement will give NASA Harvest unprecedented soil insights for its global agricultural monitoring efforts. NASA Harvest (NASA’s Food Security and Agriculture Program) and CropX, an Israeli firm which specializes in soil analytics for agriculture, have entered into a strategic partnership. The new arrangement will give NASA Harvest […]

Marc Benioff’s Salesforce.com To Face Sex-Trafficking Charges in Texas The charges are related to Backpage.com. Salesforce.com, a company owned by Mar Benioff which offers a CRM for companies’ sales systems, will now be required to face charges must face state and federal charges over the facilitation of sex-trafficking. The charges are related to the now […]

Waze Founder Noam Bardin Promotes New Company Paygo Media Paygo Media helps websites monetize their content. Noam Bardin has a new company called Paygo Media. The Israeli founder of Waze and former Google exec is now trying to help people access content on line which is available only to paid subscribers. Paygo lets users pay […]

New York State to Legalize Marijuana Marijuana legalization would net NY $350M a year. Lawmakers in New York have come to an agreement on the legalization of marijuana in the state. A new law, if passed, would allow people over the age of 21 to engage in the use of marijuana for recreational purposes. The […]

Rachel Levine Confirmed as America’s First Transgender Secretary She passed in a 52-48 vote. Dr. Rachel Levine — Courtesy of Biden transition team Dr. Rachel Levine has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate and is now America’s Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services. The vote was 52 – 48, mostly along party lines. This […]

Steven Spielberg Making His Own Biopic Seth Rogen will play his uncle. Steven Spielberg is making his own life story for a new movie. Well sort of anyway. The new film which stars Seth Rogen is partially based on the two time Academy Award winner’s life story. It will deal with his childhood, growing up […]

Israeli Video Startup Kaltura Now Sees $2 Billion IPO That’s up from $1 billion expected just a few weeks ago. Kaltura Executive Team — Company Photo Kaltura, an Israeli startup which provides live and on-demand video SaaS solutions, has upgraded its expectations for its initial public offering. The company now says that it expects a […]

Elbit Systems Had a Great 2020 – Reports $4.7 Billion in Revenue It also reported $11 billion in new orders. Aviators-Night-Vision-Imaging-System-Elbit Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems had a great year in 2020, in spite of the worldwide recession caused by the Covid-19 crisis. The company just released its fourth quarter and full year results for […]

Twitter Has Acquired Israeli startup Reshuffle No word yet on how much it cost. Twitter has bought out Reshuffle, an Israeli startup which offers an Application Programming Interface (API) solution. API is software which serves as an intermediary in that it enables two different applications to talk to each other. The sale price for Reshuffle […]

Goodbye George Segal 1934 – 2021 The actor was 87 years old. George Segal Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf George Segal was truly one of the greats. His acting career spanned more than six decades. Sadly, he died on Tuesday in Santa Rosa, Calif from what was described as complications following heart bypass surgery. He […]