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Waze Carpooling, Yahoo Visiting, Medicine Advancing and More – This Week from the Startup Nation

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July 6, 2015

Yahoo's Elite High Tech Unit Visit the Startup Nation

What brings the participants of Yahoo's exclusive executive training program to Israel? In 2012, Mayer was named CEO of Yahoo, the internet mammoth, in attempt to bring it out of the crisis it was in. At the time, Yahoo suffered from a poor image of the sinking ship with many of its talented employees defecting to greener fields.

Mayer was determined to attract young and fresh talents, so she established the APM at Yahoo too. Fernando Delgado, a senior product development director in Yahoo's headquarters and a Google APM graduate himself who moved from Google to Yahoo with Mayer, was appointed head of the Yahoo training program.

Last week, Delgado visited in Israel with the ten participants of the prestigious program.

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Israeli Scientists Can Now Know Exactly What We're Made Of

Israeli scientists have moved in an amazing pace in recent years, in researching what is called “the new genomics.”  This ability to do single-cell analysis, to get the identities and states of each of the cells, is the final revolution in this field of science. It’s the equivalent of an amazing new microscope— a microscope that offers remarkable potential for improving our health.

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Partner Cuts Ties with Orange Over BDS Resolution

France's Orange SA could pay Israel’s Partner Communications, which has been licensing the Orange brand for 17 years, up to €90 million if the two decide to part ways in the next two years, according to an agreement the companies signed last week.

Details of the agreement, which were published via the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange’s information system, specified that Partner could cut off the brand license agreement in the first 12 months, and that both Partner and Orange could terminate it in the 12 months that followed. Orange will pay Partner €40m for agreeing to the deal, which includes a detailed market study. Partner would get an additional €50m if the branding agreement is nixed within two years. It replaces the 10-year renewal of the brand agreement the companies signed in March.

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Waze Launches a New Carpooling Pilot Program

Israeli Google-owned and online mapping company Waze is launching a carpooling pilot program in Israel where commuters pay fellow drivers a small fee for a ride to and from work. The new application, called RideWith, will use Waze's navigation system to learn the routes drivers most frequently take to work and match them up with people looking for a ride in the same direction.

Google bought Israel-based Waze, which uses satellite signals from members' smartphones to offer real-time traffic information, for about $1 billion two years ago.

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A 5-Minute Phone Charging Nano-Tech Males Our Lives Easier

Not content with developing batteries for cellphones that recharge a completely dead device in a minute, or even with building a battery for electric cars that will cut recharging time from six hours to five minutes, Israeli start-up StoreDot has a third objective: developing screen technology that will allow users to roll up their phones and store them in their shirt pocket, like a pen – with a screen that displays colors that are clearer, cleaner, and more vivid than anything on the market today.

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