Friday, December 30, 2011

(BN) Google Backs Israeli Startups After Local Financing Hits 12-Year-Low: Tech

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Google Backs Israel Entrepreneurs as Local Financing Drops: Tech

Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- The Google Inc. executive with his bright yellow vest was impossible to miss in the middle of the Israeli startup owners seeking cash in a rusty boathouse at Tel Aviv's Jaffa port.

David Lawee, Google's mergers and acquisitions chief, used the early November session, called Garage Geeks, to round out his contact list. "I've met about 100 Israeli companies in two days and that's, like, super-efficient," he said between conversations at the corporate speed-dating-style event arranged by startup investor Yossi Vardi that introduced local businesses to multinationals.

Google set up a funding program two weeks later for Israeli entrepreneurs, part of an acceleration in U.S. technology companies' backing in late 2011 that has included Apple Inc. buying a company in the country for the first time, according to business newspaper Calcalist.

The foreign investments are important to Israel, where the high-tech industry accounts for 47 percent of manufactured exports, and could be a new source of innovation for giants like Google because of the Mountain View, California-based company's strength in technology startups.

Money from Google and others is making up for a decline in local financing that Avi Sasson, Israel's state research-grant provider, says could hurt industry growth.

Venture Capital Slump

"The minute the Israeli venture-capital funds aren't helping in the early stage, there won't be a new generation of companies for the foreign investors to invest in three or four years down the road," said Koby Simana, head of the Israel Venture Capital Research Center, in an interview. "Israeli startups won't exist if there is no Israeli venture capital."

Of the $522 million raised by Israeli technology companies in the third quarter, $96 million came from domestic venture- capital funds, a drop of 40 percent from the second quarter and 12 percent from a year earlier, according to the research center. The proportion coming from Israel, at 18 percent, was the lowest since the center started covering the industry in 1999, Simana said.

Many Israeli venture capital funds, hurt by the global recession, have been unable to raise money, and 2012 will be "crucial" for their recovery, Simana said. "For some, it will be a make or break year because they haven't raised funds since 2007 or 2006 and if they don't raise any money this year or next, many will cease to operate," he said.

State Funding

The Israeli government's annual research-funding allocation has been cut by 1 billion shekels ($262 million) over the past decade, Sasson, who oversees the Ministry of Industry and Trade's development financing for local companies, said this month at a conference in Tel Aviv. That represents a decrease of 56 percent to a yearly budget of about 800 million shekels.

Israel, with a population similar to Switzerland's at 7.7 million people, was dubbed the "startup nation" in a 2009 book of that name by Saul Singer and Dan Senor. It has 64 companies on the Nasdaq Stock Market, the most of any country outside North America after China, with 56 percent focused on technology.

Google's investments in fledgling Israeli companies in the past two years include takeovers of LabPixies, a developer of game applications, for $25 million, and Quiksee, which makes software for posting three-dimensional video online, for an undisclosed price. Other U.S. investors that have acquired Israeli assets include social-networking site Facebook Inc. and online marketplace EBay Inc.

Netanyahu on Twitter

Apple agreed to buy semiconductor designer Anobit Technologies Ltd., Calcalist reported Dec. 20. On the same day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office posted on its Twitter account a message congratulating Apple "on your first acquisition here," without naming the target company. Mark Regev, a spokesman for Netanyahu, declined to elaborate.

Anobit, founded in 2006 and based in Herzliya Pituach, and investor Pitango Venture Capital declined to comment. Steve Dowling, a spokesman for Cupertino, California-based Apple, declined to comment on "rumor and speculation."

International investments may not be the answer to the needs of Israel's startups because the smaller number of local financiers poses a risk to the industry's independence, said Abraham Peled, executive chairman of Staines, England-based digital-television coding developer NDS Group Plc.

"The minute Israeli high-tech is primarily based on development centers of major companies, their fortune will be tied to that of those companies so that, if they are cutting staff, they will cut in Israel as well," Peled said.

'Nimble' Startups

Israel's "nimble" startup model can still thrive even as government funds drop because Internet companies only need small amounts of money, Vardi said. The city of Tel Aviv recently opened a working space called the Library for young technology entrepreneurs, he said.

The hour-long Garage Geeks event closed the Tel Aviv part of Digital Life Design, an international technology industry convention held in Munich. The Israeli edition attracted 300 visitors from outside the country, Vardi said.

"Somehow the word is out that this is where everyone has to be," said Vardi, co-chairman of the global conference and a founding investor in the former Mirabilis Ltd., which developed the ICQ online-chat system.

Top executives from Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc., Paris- based Alcatel-Lucent and Russia's Yandex NV were among nine potential benefactors at Garage Geeks who donned yellow vests. About 300 startup founders, clustering in groups as large as 30, roamed from suitor to suitor making appeals under loose rules that urged "short" presentations.

"When you make a connection with an entrepreneur who's really excited, whether you do a deal with him or not, that's kind of the juice of the job," Google's Lawee said.

To contact the reporters on this story: Jonathan Ferziger in Tel Aviv jferziger@bloomberg.net Gwen Ackerman in Jerusalem at gackerman@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Kenneth Wong at kwong11@bloomberg.net Andrew J. Barden at barden@bloomberg.net .

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By Stephen Cox
A DOW JONES NEWSWIRES COLUMN

10Y-Note Euro$ DJIA Nasdaq S&P S&P/TSX $Index
(CBOT H) (CME H) Comp 500 ICE
Next Resist. 131-30 99.505 12284.30 2730.30 1304.16 12488.85 80.776
First Resist. 131-11 99.410 12187.50 2680.29 1284.59 12322.47 79.032

First Support 129-08 99.250 11865.83 2601.30 1166.67 11913.72 76.320
Next Support 128-23 99.120 11613.59 2581.40 1122.95 11796.20 75.522

EUR/$ $/Yen Nikkei JGB RJ/CRB Gold Crude
(TSE Z) Index (Comex G) (Nymex F)
Next Resist. 1.3522 78.865 9940.47 143.96 324.99 1792.00 105.84
First Resist. 1.3483 78.555 9206.75 143.58 318.85 1767.40 102.44

First Support 1.3207 76.590 8343.01 141.88 310.67 1645.40 98.70
Next Support 1.3176 75.550 8109.24 141.38 308.30 1612.45 94.43

Intraday stops define a technical stop-and-reverse point between first support and first resistance.
T-note: Stop intraday trades at 130-14.
Eurodollar: Stop intraday trades at 99.365.
Nasdaq: Stop trades at 2655.70.
S&P: Stop intraday trades at 1257.08.
DJIA: Stop intraday trades at 12097.80.
S&P/TSX: Stop intraday trades at 12119.33.
$ Index: Stop intraday trades at 79.032.
RJ/CRB: Stop intraday trades at 313.00.
Gold: Stop intraday trades at 1734.50.
Crude: Stop intraday trades at 100.85.
EUR/USD: Stop trades at 1.3344.
JGB: Stop intraday trades at 142.69.
USD/JPY: Stop intraday trades at 77.028.
Nikkei 225: Stop intraday trades at 8695.98.
(Stephen Cox, a chartered market technician, is chief technician for Dow Jones Newswires. He can be reached at 212-416-2212 or by email: stephen.cox@dowjones.com)
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S&P Places 15 Euro Nations on Warning for Credit Downgrade

Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Standard & Poor's said Germany and France may be stripped of their AAA credit ratings as the debt crisis prompts 15 euro nations to be put on review for possible downgrade.

The euro area's six AAA rated countries are among the nations to be placed on a negative outlook, and their credit ratings may be cut depending on the result of a summit of European Union leaders on Dec. 9, S&P said today in a statement. The euro reversed its gains and U.S. Treasuries rose earlier today after the Financial Times reported that the credit-ranking firm planned to reduce six AAA outlooks.

"Systemic stress in the eurozone has risen in recent weeks and reached such a level that a review of all eurozone sovereign ratings is warranted," S&P said in a statement.

The downgrade warnings come as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy push for a rewrite of the EU's governing rules to tighten economic cooperation in a demonstration of unity on ending the debt crisis. With the fate of the currency shared by the 17 euro countries at risk, Merkel and Sarkozy presented a common platform for a Dec. 8-9 summit of EU leaders in Brussels that aims to halt the crisis now in its third year.

"The S&P move is yet another signal that euro area countries must take decisive action to deal with the crisis or else the problems will spread from Greece and others with the most acute fiscal problems to the rest of the euro zone," said Phillip Swagel, a professor of economics at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy who was an assistant secretary for economic policy in the George W. Bush administration. "It is time for Germany and France to act -- either to save Greece and the others or to let them fail."

Germany, Belgium

The firm said that ratings could be cut by one level for Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Netherlands and Luxembourg, and by up to two notches for the other governments. The euro pared gains against the dollar, trading at $1.3401 per euro at 5:01 p.m. in New York after rising as high as $1.3487.

S&P said it maintained the negative outlook for Cyprus, and Greece wasn't put on "creditwatch."

In a joint statement, the governments of France and Germany said they "recognize" the move by S&P and "affirm their conviction that the common proposals made today will strengthen coordination of budget and economic policy, and promote stability, competitiveness and growth."

S&P roiled global equity, bond, currency and commodity markets on Nov. 10, when it sent and then corrected an erroneous message to subscribers suggesting France's rating had been downgraded.

Stability Facility

Downgrades of Germany and France would affect the rating of the European Financial Stability Facility, the bailout fund for struggling euro member countries that has funded rescue packages for Greece, Ireland and Portugal partially through bond sales. If the EFSF has to pay higher interest on its bonds, it may not be able to provide as much funding for indebted nations.

Yields on EFSF 3.375 percent bonds due in July 2021 2 basis points, snapping a five-day rally, to 3.6 percent, according to Bloomberg prices.

"Negative news is going to continue to spur rallies in the Treasury markets, at least until the ECB steps in to end this mess once and for all," Guy LeBas, chief fixed-income strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott LLC in Philadelphia, said before the announcement. "With the euro currency in a state of flux, the U.S. markets remain the only true safe haven."

U.S. Downgrade

S&P downgraded the U.S.'s AAA credit rating by one level to AA+ for the first time Aug. 5, citing the nation's political process and criticizing lawmakers for failing to cut spending or raise revenue enough to reduce record budget deficits.

Investors nevertheless sought Treasuries after the S&P rating cut sparked financial market turmoil. Treasuries gained 6.4 percent last quarter, their best performance since the last three months of 2008, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch index data.

The rating company's decision on the U.S. was flawed by a $2 trillion error, according to the Treasury Department. S&P disputed the Treasury's assertions and said using the department's preferred spending measures in its analysis didn't affect its credit grade.

Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings affirmed their AAA credit ratings on Aug. 2, the day President Barack Obama signed a bill ending an impasse with lawmakers over raising the nation's debt ceiling.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said Treasury securities remain a core holding for investors. "The downgrade didn't scare off any investors," and the action, along with the prospect of other downgrades, hasn't done "significant damage" to the economy, Bernanke said at a Nov. 10 at a town-hall-style event in El Paso, Texas.

German bunds are underperforming Treasuries for the first time since the European debt crisis began in 2009.

Best-Performing

Treasuries due in 10 years or more are 2011's best- performing sovereign securities, returning 26 percent as of Nov. 30, according to Bloomberg/EFFAS indexes. German 30-year bunds yielded more than their U.S. peers last month for the first time since May 2009 as the government was only able to find buyers for 65 percent of a 6 billion euro ($8.1 billion) offering on Nov. 23, its worst auction in 16 years.

Credit-default swaps tied to France climbed 4 basis points on Dec. 2 to 196 basis points, while contracts insuring against a default on Germany's debt were about unchanged 97 basis points, CMA data show. That compares with 51 basis points for credit swaps on the U.S. and 90 basis points for the U.K.

A basis point on a credit-swap contract protecting $10 million of debt for five years is equivalent to $1,000 a year. Swaps pay the buyer face value in exchange for the underlying securities or the cash equivalent should a borrower fail to adhere to its debt agreements.

Bond yields of countries stripped of their AAA ratings since 1998 have historically been little changed following the credit grade change, according to an Oct. 28 report from JPMorgan Chase & Co. analysts led by Terry Belton, global head of fixed-income and foreign-exchange research. The yield on 10- year Japanese government debt rose 10 basis points the week after it was cut to Aa1 by Moody's in November 1998. The interest rate declined 3 basis points following the cut by S&P to AA+ in February 2001.

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Egyptian Corporate Lawyer: France 24 : Belgians stage mass protest against au...

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Egyptian Corporate Lawyer: BBC E-mail: Egypt announces 62% poll turnout

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France 24 : Human rights watchdog reports on deadly Congo violence

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France 24 : ICC mulls warrant request for Sudanese minister

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France 24 : Belgians stage mass protest against austerity measures

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BBC E-mail: Unemployment in US falls to 8.6%

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** Unemployment in US falls to 8.6% **
The US unemployment rate drops sharply to 8.6% in November, its lowest level in two-and-a-half years, from 9% the month before, figures show.
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BBC E-mail: UN passes tough Syria resolution

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** UN passes tough Syria resolution **
The UN Human Rights Council is to appoint a special investigator on Syria as part of a strongly-worded resolution condemning the violence there.
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BBC E-mail: Egypt announces 62% poll turnout

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** Egypt announces 62% poll turnout **
Election officials in Egypt say 62% of voters participated in the first democratic elections in 60 years, and give the first few results.
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BBC E-mail: Saudi cleric in virginity warning

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** Saudi cleric in virginity warning **
A report in Saudi Arabia warns that if Saudi women are given the right to drive, it would spell the end of virginity in the country.
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BBC E-mail: Australia Labor for gay marriage

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** Australia Labor for gay marriage **
Australia's governing Labor party votes to support same-sex marriage, although its MPs will be allowed a free vote on the issue in parliament.
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