Public transportation in Israel just got greener. Israeli bus company Dan is launching the country's first electric bus, made by Chinese company BYD, which will be part of the city's 5 line, one of the busiest in the country.

A year after raising $2.3 million to further develop its automatic news-video generator, Wibbiz is targeting another market – mobile users - with a new platform that offers personalized news videos.

Conduit is expected to launch an application for Android users that will enable them to directly consume designated content from their device's lock screen. The company says they will offer quick access to data, such as news, sports or weather.

Ziv Jonas believes the web is a daunting place that has too big a supply of websites and information for us ever to find the few websites we would really love to visit. That is why Jonas co-founded Hiplight, a browser add-on that lets you see what has been most visited by people in your group of friends or similar-minded people.

A new Israeli startup called 8minutes is trying to take the democratization of news one step further. The online service allows users to post news items on the site, but it is only those items that are worthy enough of user comments that will stay on the site for longer than 8 minutes.