Startup Comigo aims to revolutionize the television market with a Smart TV platform offering multi-screen experience with interactive socialization capabilities. It also allows users to stream content from one device to another and communicate with other viewers in real time.

2Tangos is an Israeli knowledge bank that offers location-based connections for online tandem learning. Users can pass on their skills in return for someone else’s knowledge: cooking secrets for German classes, guitar for sculpting etc.

Israel, Iran, Jordan and Turkey are to jointly provide funds for a particle accelerator as part of their commitment to a UNESCO-sponsored scientific project. Each country will contribute $5 million for the facility near Amman.

GroupShot is an Israeli-developed app that gives you a chance to make everyone look their best. The app selects the best parts from two or more pictures and integrates them into one perfect group shot.

iAlbums is an iPhone app that aims to bring a little bit of that old school feeling of buying a record, a casette tape, or even CD. Developed in Israel, the app allows users to listen to music with the additional features of looking up lyrics and reading reviews and artist interviews

Israeli startup Trendit provides real-time traffic and demographic data, using a simple tool - our mobile signals. The company’s People Analytics tool allows businesses to characterize the type of customers who pass by their stores, as well as length of stay.

A new hovercraft made by Israeli startup Sky Sapience can carry surveillance equipment 164 feet in the air. It can be used as a military observation, border control and crowd control tool. For now, Sky Sapience's primary customer is the Israel Ministry of Defense, which asked for a tethered hovering platform two years ago.

sCoolWork is a free Israeli web application for students having trouble with their homework, with tools such as a search filter, text editor and grammar-check. Application developers ensure that sCoolWork will save its users time and improve their grades.

Dorot, the Israeli company that manufactures frozen garlic and herbs, will be the first Israeli company to advertise on fresh eggs. Recipes using the company's products will be printed on three million eggs.

Israeli web platform Loudlee is a social network for music lovers. It allows users to listen to music online, create playlists, share songs with friends - and view what their friends are listening to. Loudlee's design looks a lot like Pinterest's main page, with content featured by albums or artists.

An Israeli scientist collaborated with NASA to fight bacteria in water sources that are used by astronauts in space. His nanotechnology solution showed positive results aboard an Atlantis mission last summer. This technology could also be used in the food industry and in hospitals.

Israeli App Pops, which recently raised $1.5 million, turns your mobile phone's notifications into animations and videos. Users can personalize different visual animations instead of the default notifications that come with the apps they are using. The app is being presented at the Mobile World Congress.

Users of the Israeli App Picalogo can take a picture of the closest logo and the app will automatically figure out where they are. Picalogo then registers the users on the major check-in apps and also delivers coupons to their mobile.

Israeli venture capital funds raised $796 million in 2011, IVC Research Center KPMG Israel Somekh Chaikin reported, after raising nothing in 2010, and just $256 million in 2009, which was 76% less than in 2008.

Vaultive, a provider of cloud data encryption solutions that allows companies to leverage the benefits of cloud computing while keeping their data secured, announced it has completed a $10-million funding round led by .406 Ventures, New Science Ventures and Harmony Partners. The company is currently in beta for its first product, Vaultive for Hosted Exchange, […]