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Israels Economic Progress Threatened by Tactical and Structural -- and Solvable -- Liquidity Shortages, According to New Milken Institute Report

"Without liquidity, Israel will not be able to transition from a startup to a scale-up nation or become a leader in new technologies whose global contributions also reap domestic rewards," observed Milken Institute Senior Fellow Glenn Yago.


New venture capital fund Amplify Partners raises $49.1M to back IT infrastructure startups in the US

Cambridge, US-based venture capital firm Amplify Partners raised $49.1 million for its new fund to back early-stage firms in the storage, networking, and Internet hardware industries.

Cloudera bags $160M in new funding round

Cloudera, the company that provides enterprises with the first unified big data platform, secured $160 million from T. Rowe price, Google Ventures and MSD Capital, TechCrunch reported.

New York startup AbilTo bags $6M in Series B round to keep people mentally healthy

New York, US-based remote behavioral intervention startup AbilTo bagged $6 million in a Series B funding round led by Blue Cross Blue Shield to help maintain people's mental health from afar.


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NASCAR America airs live March 19 at 5:00 p.m. ET with drivers racing to get a good grip for the Sprint Cup.
Raleigh, US-based wedding photo and video-sharing app WedPics scored $1.5 million in its Series A financing round led by IDEA Fund Partners to scale up its platform and beef up its workforce.
The MYSTIC operation of the National Security Agency has the ability to retrieve phone calls in a foreign country in the past 30 days, The Washington Post reported citing documents provided by Edward Snowden and people with knowledge of the matter.
Boston, Massachusetts-based event management startup Attendware will be rebranding itself as Attend.com as it expands the scope of its solution to online management and analytics for business and university events.
Y Combinator President Sam Altman has renewed the call that Paul Graham made five years ago on "founders visa" to encourage international startups to establish their firms in the US, TechCrunch reported.
Menlo Park, US-based article and video bookmarking mobile app Pocket, which used to be available only for English articles, has now added French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish to the languages that its supports.
Malaysia Airlines MH370 was spotted flying low and loudly in a remote area just above the islands of Maldives, said a local newspaper citing eyewitnesses who saw the jumbo jet, reported IBTimes.
Sony unveiled a prototype hardware for the virtual reality headset it is working on for the PlayStation 4 which it calls "Project Morpheus," TechCrunch reported.
San Francisco, US-based social news service Nuzzel came out of beta testing to open let all users view a public feed of the most relevant and popular news that are automatically customized according to their interest.
High-quality video platform Vimeo bought iOS video-creation app Cameo backed by Great Oaks Venture Capital. Financial terms of the acquisition were not provided, VentureBeat reported