
Israel: Standing out in the Crowd in the Global AI Competition
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is on the rise in the world of technology. AI is transforming multiple industries with the application in such areas as cyber security, digital solutions, finance, medicine, retail, transportation and media. PwC predicts that AI will add $ 15.7 trillion to world GDP by 2030. In such circumstances, Israel is turning a few heads in the AI competition. According to a worldwide survey focusing on AI in May 2018, Israel is ranked third in the world fol


Trend report of Japanese sharing economy
Sharing Economy is the economic system in which assets, services, time, skills or transportation are shared between private individuals, either free or for a fee, typically by means of the Internet. The market size of the domestic sharing economy in Japan continues to rapidly expand. Cabinet office did a trial calculation the market size in 2016 and it was about 525 billion yen. The breakdown of each fields are: 300 billion yen (things) 140-180 billion yen(space) 15-25 billio


In first Israeli acquisition, Walmart purchases natural language processing start-up Aspectiva
American retail giant Walmart’s Store No 8 innovation arms has acquired an Israeli machine learning startup for an undisclosed sum, the reta