Microsoft Corp. has signed an agreement to acquire Hexadite, an Israeli-American company whose automatic incident investigation and remediation solutions will help commercial Windows 10 customers detect, investigate and respond to advanced attacks on their networks with Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (WDATP). An official Microsoft statement released on June 8...

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Five multinational corporations, including Microsoft, have established a partnership to invest in Israeli startups developing technology for the Internet of Things (IoT), The Times of Israel reported Thursday. In addition to Microsoft, the venture capital arms of General Electric, Qualcomm, the Indian conglomerate Tata, and the Chinese company HNA Group have...

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Israel has earned a reputation as one of the world’s leading tech research and development hubs, and executives from Silicon Valley’s biggest firms have ideas why that is. With a population just over 8.5 million, the Jewish state enjoys the highest density of startups and venture capital investment per capita in the...

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An Israeli financial technology startup is on a mission to make banking and financial activities easier and cheaper for migrant workers. Neema, in collaboration with MasterCard, has launched a debit card system that does not have transfer or foreign currency exchange rate fees, dramatically reducing the cost migrant workers pay to send...

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Microsoft Israel’s R&D Center—the tech giant’s first R&D center outside the United States—is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. At Microsoft Israel R&D Center’s annual Think Next  showcase in Tel Aviv last month, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella congratulated the Israeli engineers and researchers who continue breaking new ground. He noted Microsoft’s...

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In a speech broadcast to over 2,000 attendees at Microsoft Israel’s annual Think Next event, Microsoft founder Bill Gates said that Israeli contributions to technology fields such as analytics and security are “improving the world,” The Times of Israel reported on Thursday. Gates, who addressed the Tel Aviv audience on...

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Graduates of the Microsoft Ventures Israel Accelerator, which operates as part of Microsoft’s R&D center, raised nearly $9 million in funds or investment offers during the mentoring program. The startups are in fields as varied as e-commerce, tourism, advertising, medicine, and agricultural technology. The Accelerator program is designed to take...

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Microsoft is reportedly acquiring Israeli cybersecurity startup Adallom for $320 million, David Shamah of The Times of Israel reported Monday. According to the reports, Tel Aviv-based Adallom, currently with about 60 employees, will continue to operate in Israel and will expand to become Microsoft’s cyber-security development headquarters in Israel. If...

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Despite all the talk about how Israeli companies are great at exits but not at scaling up into large corporate entities, the Tel Aviv-based general manager of Microsoft Ventures Global Accelerators declared that impact matters more than size. “Much has been written about Israel moving from a startup nation to...

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On November 13, Microsoft announced its acquisition of Israeli enterprise security startup Aorato. Financial details of the sale weren’t disclosed, but according to The Wall Street Journal Microsoft paid close to $200 million. “We are making this acquisition to give customers a new level of protection against threats through better...

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