Category: Business

As many as 1.9 billion people will be without clean cooking and 660 million without access to electricity in 2030—mainly in Africa and the developing world—if swift and expansive action is not taken, according to a new international report. “Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report” tracks progress toward the world achieving Sustainable Development Goal […]

The gender wage gap between men and women in Israeli hi-tech currently stands at 30%, and only 3% of CEOs in the industry are women, newly published data revealed ahead of the Mind the Gap conference that will take place later in June. The findings were published by the company Compete ahead of the conference, […]

For the first time ever in Israel, Azrieli College of Engineering Jerusalem is holding a virtual open day in the Metaverse for potential students from all across the country. Virtual reality technology enables potential students to have a virtual simulation of the college environment, including speaking with professors, department heads and students.  These virtual visitors […]

In six months, Bank of Israel Governor Prof. Amir Yaron will end his five-year term of office. The global and Israeli economic landscape has changed completely since he entered office. Yaron has been through a global pandemic, high inflation, aggressive rate hikes that are still continuing and political pressure that none of his predecessors likely […]

Britain has committed to the removal of Chinese-made surveillance equipment from sensitive government sites as part of its latest plans to address national security concerns related to China. Under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who has cast China as the world’s greatest challenge to security and prosperity, the government told its departments last year to stop […]

Although OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has no plans to open an OpenAI R&D Center in Israel, preferring to concentrate all the company’s activities in San Francisco, sources familiar with the situation have told Globes that the Microsoft R&D Center in Herzliya will play a key role in the commercialization of the chatbot ChatGPT version sold […]

A new initiative from the L’Oréal Israel Group will offer an innovative learning, training, and professional enrichment campus in the world of skincare to female influencers and content creators through the newly launched SkinCare Campus program. The campus will train content creators who deal with skincare content and provide them with professional knowledge through a […]

Beauty pioneer and Israeli businesswoman Ronit Raphael is set to launch three new branches of her international skincare brand, L. RAPHAEL Genève in Dubai, in partnership with esteemed Emirati medical institution MEDCARE.  The partnership between L.RAPHAEL Genève and MEDCARE – which boasts a chain of four hospitals and more than 20 medical centers around Dubai […]

Dozens of senior executives in Artificial Intelligence, academics and other famous people have signed a statement warning of global annihilation by AI, stating emphatically that fighting this threat of extinction should be a global priority and calling to reduce the grave risks of AI. “Reducing the risk of extinction from AI should be a global […]

Israel is home to more than 230 EnergyTech companies, according to a new report by Start-up Nation Central and Ignite the Spark. The team released its 2023 Israeli EnergyTech sector map on Monday, which includes information about 130 of those 230 companies, making these companies more accessible to potential tech partners or investors. “Start-Up Nation […]