Category: Business

The board of directors of the space-sharing company WeWork has approved the Japanese investment giant Softbank to take control of the real estate startup. Softbank today received approval from WeWork’s board of directors to take over the joint space company currently in trouble, giving the company’s founder and CEO Adam Neumann close to $ 1.7 […]

Seedo has developed an automated indoor cannabis growing device that looks like a mini-fridge. American rapper Snoop Dogg is the new brand representative for Israeli startup Seedo, maker of a fully automated system for growing cannabis — or other herbs. Founded in 2013, Yokne’am-based Seedo, has developed a fully-automated machine that looks like a mini-fridge […]

The number of millionaires in the world grew by 1.1 million in the first half of 2019 to reach 46.8 million adult individuals, the Global Wealth Report Out of 5.1 billion people across the globe, Israel ranks in the opening quintet with 131,000 millionaires, given the population size, according to the Credit Suisse Research Institute […]

Benjamin Netanyahu failed to secure a majority in the second elections this year. Rival Benny Gantz is given chance to try himself Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday ended his efforts to form a government weeks after the second elections this year. Netanyahu, the heads of right-wing Likud Party said he was returning the mandate […]

Ants can protect plants from 14 diseases thanks to chemicals they secrete from their legs and bodies, a study has found. The research from Aarhus University suggests that the benefits of these infection-fighting antibiotics to plants may be as significant as the service ants provide in defending plants from herbivores. They also host colonies of […]

Lloyd Blankfein: “I knew I’d lose stature when I left my old job” I knew I’d lose stature when I left my old job. Thank you Harvard basketball team for rubbing it in!! pic.twitter.com/TAQiRrIk42 — Lloyd Blankfein (@lloydblankfein) October 18, 2019 Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein posed with Harvard’s basketball team and then joked […]

Israeli startup Orasis brings science fiction to life by developing corrective eye drops as an alternative to reading glasses, contact lenses or surgery. Israeli startup Orasis Pharmaceuticals brings science fiction to life by developing a corrective eye drops as an alternative to reading glasses contact lenses or laser surgery. The company‘s patent-protected solution CSF-1 eye […]

“Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?” -Honoré de Balzac For understanding the context of social life, Honoré de Balzac was a master. Minutely analytic in his scrutiny of society, he delicately lay bare every stratum of culture with the precision of an archeologist. Brushing the “dirt” from every […]

In recent years, Benjamin Netanyahu has managed to position himself as the leader closest to the world’s two most powerful people – Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump.It is likely that he has met with each of them and/or talked to them more than any other leader – and this has definitely […]