Israel’s Anagog, developer of the world’s largest crowdsourced parking network, won the ‘Best Mobile Innovation in Automotive Award’ at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and Israeli job-matching start-up Woo matches the right people with the right job.

By: Michael Ordman

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Best mobile innovation

Israel’s Anagog, developer of the world’s largest crowdsourced parking network, won the ‘Best Mobile Innovation in Automotive Award’ at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Anagog can detect if a smarphone user is at home or at work, walking, driving, riding a bus, where he parked and more.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/anagog-announced-winner-best-mobile-140000405.html

A better way to get a better job

Israeli job-matching start-up Woo matches the right people with the right job via an anonymous employment platform that provides tailor-made offers for each user. Woo’s platform recognizes that 75-80% of people don’t actively look for new jobs, but would accept a better job if offered.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-start-up-woos-americans-with-disruptive-job-search-platform/

Huge Israeli presence at Mobile World Congress

The largest mobile expo in the world – the annual GSMA Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona – showcased 2,100 companies, including a delegation of over 100 Israeli high-tech companies in the field of mobile solutions and apps.
http://nocamels.com/2016/02/gsma-mobile-world-congress-israeli-technologies/

Laying the foundations for 5G networks

One of the companies showcasing at the Mobile World Congress is Israel’s Ceragon and its 5G wireless backhaul technologies. Commercial 5G services are expected to begin by 2020, bringing increased capacity, the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine to machine (M2M) solutions.
https://www.ceragon.com/about-us/media-center/news/item/1421-ceragon-showcases-5g-at-mwc-2016

A most innovative company

Fast Company magazine has included Glide – Israel’s mainstream video messaging app – in their Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Video list (#7). Glide was specifically recognized for its efforts to “provide a social communication tool for the deaf community.”
http://www.fastcompany.com/company/glide
http://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/sectors/video

Top of the world in fire safety

Israel has invested 2 billion Shekels ($505 million) in its firefighting service since the 2010 Carmel forest fire. Hundreds of new firefighters helped reduce average response times from 14 minutes in 2010 to six minutes in 2015. There were 70 fatalities in 2010; 23 in 2011; 17 in 2013 and 9 in 2015.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-ranks-top-in-world-in-fire-safety-says-fire-chief/

Award-winning seedless papaya

The Aurora, a seedless papaya from Israel, was crowned winner of the Fruit Logistica Innovation Award (FLIA) 2015. It began as an accidental mutation which breeder Assaf Avizohar spent 12 years developing hybrids with better taste and color.
http://www.freshfruitportal.com/news/2015/02/06/israeli-papaya-breeder-wins-fruit-logistica-innovation-award/
http://www.freshfruitportal.com/news/2016/02/16/israeli-seedless-papaya-production-on-the-rise/

The Israeli tech in Lady Gaga’s Grammy performance

Intel Israel showed at the Grammy Awards ceremony what the Israeli-developed RealSense 3D camera is capable of. As Lady Gaga began her “David Bowie tribute” performance, her dynamic makeup was digitally projected onto her face.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-israeli-tech-in-lady-gagas-ziggy-stardust-makeup/

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