Israeli tech startups raised $1.76 billion last year, the largest amount in six years. Local venture funds accounted for 39 percent of the investments.
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Demand for technology workers rose by 2 percent in Israel in 2007 while salaries were up by an average of 5 percent in the past year.
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Coming after criticism of eBay's $1.4 billion Skype-related charge, founder Niklas Zennstrom says the Internet phone leader's massive user numbers and lead will pay off.
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Freescale Semiconductor CEO Michel Mayer expects the chip industry could soon face major consolidation, with the number of companies likely to drop sharply in the next few years.
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Microsoft is investing heavily in an effort to regain lost market share in the search market from Google, coming as the software beast is also maneuvering overseas. See also: Microsoft: 'Halo 3' Fires Up Sales of $300M and Microsoft’s Endgame
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Leonard Brody predicts that calling on average citizens to act as journalists will do to the news business what Skype did to the telecommunications industry.
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eMobile, predicting a boom in growth for mobile data plans, is looking to shake up the Japanese mobile market controlled by too few players offering too high pricing.
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