Software deciphers your mood to suggest movies
We’re used to work, school, commuting, and family all competing for our time and energy. But in recent years, even our leisure time is overloaded with options. With so many entertainment choices...
View Article5Min: Popular ‘How-To’ Video Site’s Expansion Plans
If you had tried to find a “how-to” video on the internet five years ago, chances are you would have not found what you were looking for. Three Israeli friends had come across the same problem which...
View ArticlePiracy Detection Technology Assigns DNA To Every Movie
Engineers led by Dr. Alex Bronstein of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Electrical Engineering have developed a new way to stop movie and video pirates using “video DNA matching,” which can create a...
View ArticleNew Search Engine Says It Will Do To Video What Google Did For Text
Search engines are getting smarter by the minute- after Google’s revolution in text based sites, a new kind of search engine uses patent-pending computer vision algorithms that can actually see the...
View ArticlePhone App To Pimp Your Video Clip
Pimp My Clip, a new iPhone app from the Israeli software company Baboonix, is the first video enhancement app available in the Apple’s AppStore that offers a friendly editing platform for smartphones....
View Article‘Radvision’ To Advance Mobile Video Communications For ‘Quanta’
Radvision, Israeli solution provider for unified visual communications, announced that Quanta Computer, one of the world’s largest manufacturers for notebook computers, has selected it as the...
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Vodio Helps You Discover The Videos You Want To Watch
Israeli startup company Vodio created a free iPad app that helps users discover and search for videos across the web – while learning what their preferences are. The app’s goal is to bring all videos...
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New Facebook App Brings Iranians And Israelis Closer
The viral Facebook campaign “Israel Loves Iran” seems to have caught everyone off-guard. No one, including Ronny Edry, the Israeli designer behind it, expected it to sweep across boundaries in such...
View ArticleStartup Groovideo Edits Group Videos Into Simple Films
Trying to put a birthday or wedding video together can be a fun but daunting task: Getting all your friends or family to agree on a theme; finding a suitable time to film; fiddling with editing...
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Deja Brings ‘Lean-Back TV Streaming’ To Your Devices
There are a multitude of apps trying to conquer the mobile video space. Israeli startup Deja is one that focuses on a “lean-back” TV experience that requires minimum friction with its users. Contrary...
View ArticleVidoco: Turn Your Life Into A Documentary
Imagine your life as an ongoing TV show. You, of course, would be the star, with a large supporting cast. You’d have “seasons,” and maybe even reruns, where you’d repeat the same actions in different...
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Kaltura: The Israeli Up-And-Comer That Is Revolutionizing Online Video
We can no longer imagine the internet without video content, and yet it’s still a tricky medium for many. Different formats, large file sizes and the variety of operating systems and devices can make...
View ArticleAfter Growing 750% And Conquering Video, Taboola Starts Article Recommendations
Taboola had a banner year in 2012, serving nearly 1.5 billion video recommendations per day by year’s end. With all of its growth in video recommendations, the company also grew revenue by more than...
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Beamr Can Cut Video File Size By Half – Without Losing Quality
We recently told you about the Beamr app, which enables high-resolution photo sharing using a special JPEGmini format that keeps the photos’ full resolution and quality. The startup has now applied its...
View ArticleYevvo: Will Micro-Broadcasting Overthrow Twitter’s Micro-Blogging?
Micro-blogging platform Twitter may not yet have taken Israel by storm, but a new Israeli startup is aspiring to take Twitter’s gospel to the next level – short, real-time video updates. Meet Yevvo, an...
View ArticleGlide’s ‘Video-Walkie-Talkie’ Aims To Replace Texting
Mobile phones have revolutionized communications by allowing us not only to speak on the go, but also to text, email, chat and in the last few years, see our interlocutor through live video chat....
View ArticleWibbitz Launches Mobile Platform For Personalized News
Chalk up another point for the growth of apps coming out of Israel that are focused on consumers, but draw on the country’s better-known heritage for producing big data and enterprise startups....
View ArticleEpoch: Sit Back, Relax And Be Entertained
Epoch is bringing the wisdom of mood rings to mobile entertainment. The startup launched a mobile video app that shows you videos based on your mood. It takes a Songza-like approach to videos by...
View ArticleTheName.Is ‘Video Business Cards’ Will Prepare You For Your Next Meeting
“The name is Bond, James Bond…” Your personal story may not be quite as spicy as that of Britain’s most famous spy, but everyone has a good story to tell, as long as you know how to sell it. At least,...
View ArticleViewbix Leverages Online Video Into An Effective Advertising Tool
While video is gradually becoming the most dominant form of online media, most content producers find it hard to get viewers to watch an entire clip. But as Israeli startup Viewbix demonstrates, if you...
View ArticleWizeo: Spend $1 To Chat With Celebrities And See Your Money Go To Charity
Would you pay a dollar to enter a lottery to win a one-on-one chat with a famous actor, politician or guru? Israeli company Wizeo thinks you would and plans to use the money for a good cause. The idea...
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Israeli Startup Totlol Offers A Kid-Safe Alternative To YouTube
Back in 2008, a startup called Totlol emerged, offering parents a kid-friendly collection of video clips pulled from the YouTube platform on a single destination site. But that company, a one-man show,...
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The Top 10 Israeli Startups Changing The World Of Sports
Roaring crowds, fans decked out in national flags, nail-biting overtimes, unexpected twists and turns and hilarious Suarez and Howard memes. The 2014 World Cup is well under way, and while Israel may...
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Another Snapchat? Mobli Releases MIRAGE, A Social App That Allows You To Send...
The creators behind the wildly popular (and often mocked) social application Yo! and mobli, a platform for sharing photos and videos, announced the release of MIRAGE, a new social app that rivals the...
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Can’t Find Your Glasses? LOOK Is The Smart Tracking Device That Will
Anyone who wears glasses knows the disaster of misplacing your specs. Not only do you spend hours frantically turning over every single thing in your house, but you do so blindly because, without your...
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WATCH: Illusionist Uri Geller Thinks He Knows Why Some iPhones 6 Are Bending
Uri Geller, the Israeli illusionist, is probably best known for bending a spoon with his mind on live television, or many of his other ‘mind-bending’ magic tricks. But now, the 67-year-old illusionist...
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Nat Rothschild To Launch London Ride Sharing App ‘Maaxi’ To Compete With ‘Uber’
Nathaniel Rothschild, the British-born financier and member of the prominent Rothschild family, will release a new ride share application called Maaxi in London to compete with the popular hiring...
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World’s First Precision Medical Marijuana Inhaler Hopes To Remove Stigma Of...
If you ask Syqe Medical – creator of the world’s first 3D-printed hand-held cannabis inhaler – doctors prescribing joints for medical marijuana patients is old news. Until now patients had to make do...
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Moviegoers And Schizophrenics Share Similar Brain Activity, Study Shows
Spoiler alert!: If you’ve seen the movie “Black Swan,” then you’ll be familiar with the scene near the end when Nina, played by actress Natalie Portman, begins to hallucinate that she is becoming the...
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Michael Jackson, ABBA And Bowie In One Music Video. Sound Too Good To Be...
Roy Kafri (left) and Vania Heymann (right) Vania Heymann, the Israeli video wizzard who creates iconic music videos and commercials for the Internet era, has done it again with a new video that brings...
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Startup ‘TipRanks’ Tells You Who Are The World’s Best Financial Analysts
In the world of investing, countless financial analysts are offering advice on which stocks and assets to buy, sell, and hold. Yet statistics show that the majority of analysts – even those who work...
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Mobile Is About To Get Emotional With Beyond Verbal’s ‘Moodies’ App
Smartphones are, well, pretty smart. From detecting our location to recognizing verbal commands, one day we may fear that our phones have surpassed us in intelligence. The latest step in this...
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