Company Name: HooQsFounded in: 2007Location: Tel Aviv     HooQs, an Israeli startup launched in 2007, brings personalized mobile content to users with a unique mobile media recommendation system. Based in Tel Aviv, HooQs was co-founded by Aner Ravon and Itay Gissin. HooQs’ partners and distributors are spread globally and as a result the founders plan to open European and North American headquarters in 2009 in order to grow their business and become more easily [...]

  Company Name: FootboFounded in: 2008Location: Tel Aviv, Israel Footbo is a social network for football fans, or as they are called in the U.S., soccer fans. The site, which launched this month to coincide with the EURO 2008 tournament, is the brainchild of Raphael Honigstein, a well known football journalist based in London, who writes for England’s The Guardian, amongst other publications. Raphael teamed up with his brother Mani, who has worked in the [...]

Launched in 2006 in the basement of a small house in Malal village, Yedda is a knowledge community whose mission is to connect people who are looking for knowledge with the people who have the knowledge. The company was acquired by AOL in 2007, but has stuck to its basement in Malal, renovating the space to accommodate the company’s growth. On Yedda, all questions and users are organized by tags, so if you’re looking for a [...]

Tel-Aviv based fring announced that they are releasing their API, allowing third-party developers the opportunity to develop new applications called fring Add-ons for the fring community. fring offers peer to peer mobile VOIP and allows users to chat, call, and transfer files from mobile to PC or mobile to mobile, completely free of charge, using the mobile devices’ Wi-Fi connection. The company has a strong managerial team led by Avi Shechter, Co-founder and CEO of [...]

As many of you know, over the next few weeks I will be covering the Israel Media Tour Series for Mashable and will introduce you to some of Israel’s most interesting companies. Israel has a history of strength in the technology sector. It is home to many top global companies’ research and development facilities, and host to companies that have produced innovative products like the first instant messenger ever, ICQ. Now, with the emergence of Web 2.0 we are [...]

Thanks to everyone who joined us at the Mashbash event last Wednesday plus those companies who were also a part of the Israel Media Tour Series. Here are a few pics from all the festivities:                                                     Adam Hirsch from Mashable Sharon Feder from Mashable Gilad Shlang from Meemix Liad Agmon from Delver Adam from Mashable and John LoGioco from Outbrain Adam from Mashable and Ari Gottesmann from Sightix For more pics, please visit my Facebook profile…. 14K [...]

Didn’t get a ticket to our MashBash event tonight? No worries. Watch Mashbash Tel Aviv event live right here starting at 7pm Israel time (12pm EST).       Technorati tags: mashbash tel aviv, mashable, blonde20, blonde 2.0, event, flixwagon

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple,  unveils iPhone 3G today, the App Store, MobileMe, and more in his Worldwide Developers Conference keynote address. the iPhone 3G will be released July 11th. It will be twice as fast as the current iPhone, have a longer battery life, GPS, and will cost only $199 in the US, with a $200 subsidy from AT&T.  According to Gizmodo: “Apple has accepted that the new iPhone should be subsidised in the US and western [...]

For all those of you who are Twitter users and still aren’t using Summize, you’re definitely missing out. Summize is a great tool helping you create some order within the Twitter universe chaos… On the Summize site you can search for any term or phrase and see all the twitts that include it. You can filter by language, people, attitudes (positive or negative ) and also translate twitts in other languages to English. You can also subscribe to a particular [...]