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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

See the March 2010 edition after the jump. Israel’s ranking in the’s Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011 increased to 24th place from 27th the year before. Leading financial magazine Global Finance named Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer among the top ten World’s Best Central Bankers for the year 2010. in August 2010.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

A bout 50,000 visitors from 200 countries are expected to attend the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, starting tomorrow February 15th. VC Cafe's own little 'cloud' for MWC 2010, taken from the Israeli IMA brochure. The IMA expects the companies to have more than 4,000 meetings during the conference.

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Red Oxygen Brings Enterprise SMS to Healthcare

Austin Startup

Red Oxygen , one of the world’s leading developers and distributors of Enterprise SMS / Text messaging software applications and services, is bringing the speed, security and convenience of text messaging to healthcare companies around the world. Tags: Enterprise austin Press Release red oxygen SMS. CrunchBase Information. Red Oxygen.

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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Ted Livingston’s rollercoaster ride as CEO of hit messaging startup Kik

The Next Web

Kik Music raised a $1 million seed funding round in January 2010, roughly a year after Livingston had first embarked on the project. The Kik Chat app launched in April 2010 for iOS and BlackBerry initially. So in October 2010, Kik launched the second version of its messaging app — and the company’s future changed almost instantly.

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53 Ways to Increase Conversion Rate

ConversionXL

TextMagic changed their button text from ”Buy SMS Credits” to ”View SMS Prices” and saw an 37.6% Official Vancouver 2010 Olympic Store changed their multi-step checkout into a single page checkout and saw a 21.8% Petco.com increased sales by 8.83% after adding the Hacker Safe seal to their site.

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Live Stream from the TWS 2010 Conference, 10 Startup Finalists and 2 Winners

VC Cafe

Started by Jonathan (Yoni) Meiri in 2010 and has recently announced a $50,000 seed round. The POS functionality is extensive: sales transactions, inventory management, CRM system, backup, email and SMS alerts, real time statistics, POSE’s site is currently in Hebrew only (and the product seems to be as well). GB over the web.

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Google Finally Weaving Local Strategy :: Small Business Marketing.

Duct Tape Marketing

There’s also an interesting integration of acquisition TalkBin , a tool that makes it very easy for people send SMS messages to any registered business. Business owners are invited to claim their pages, create special offers and try out ad products such as Boost right from the city home page.