Finistere Ventures partners with 3 Israeli firms to invest up to $100 million in Israeli agrifood startups

Finistere Ventures is intent on investing in technologies in the food sector. On Monday, Finistere Ventures, a food technologies-focused firm has partnered with three Israeli firms to invest up to $100 million in agrifood startups in Israel. Finistere will be joined by Tnuva, Israel’s largest food company that is controlled by China’s Bright Food, beverage…

Barclays Says Value Of Alternative Meat Industry To Be $140 Billion In 10 Years

According to a report from Barclay’s, over the next ten years, the companies emerging in the industry of plant-based or lab-made meat would be able to capture a 10 per cent share of the $1.4 trillion meat market and it total market value would reach an astounding $140 billion. This fast growing food sector appears…

Industry veteran Karl-Thomas Neumann joins opensource self-driving vehicle software stratup Apex.AI’s board

Apex.AI aims to make the Robot Operating System (ROS) more robust and failproof so that it can be deployed in commercial self-driving vehicles. Palo Alto, California-based Apex.AI, a company which strives to make open-source self-driving software reliable enough to be commercially viable has hired Karl-Thomas Neumann, an industry veteran who has been the CEO of…

Huawei’s global supply chain being ripped apart

U.S. trade action against Huawei having intended impact. China has termed the action taken by the United States against Huawei Technologies as “wrong actions” and has called for trade negotiations to continue. China’s comments underscores the effect of U.S. trade action which is cascading through Huawei’s global supply chains. Japan’s Panasonic Corp has joined a…

Qualcomm’s licensing practices are in violation of U.S. antitrust law – court ruling

The ruling has significant ramifications for Qualcomm. The U.S. chipmaker has yet to disclose whether it will go on an appeal. In what is likely to be a landmark ruling, a U.S. judged has ruled that Qualcomm Inc has unlawfully suppressed competition in the market for cellphone chips and used its dominant position to impose…

TSMC’s semiconductor shipments to Huawei not affected by U.S ban

TSMC, formally known as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd, is the world’s biggest contract chip manufacturer. On Thursday, TSMC, the world’s biggest contract chipmaker, stated, its shipments to Huawei Technologies Co Ltd have not been affected by U.S. regulatory trade action against the Chinese telecom maker. These comments was made by TSMC’s spokeswoman Elizabeth Sun…

5G participation will be based on technology and strategic national security interests: Le Maire

France will allow Huawei to bid for building its 5G network. In a significant development, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire disclosed, France will not rule out specific operators for establishing its 5G telecoms network and that participation of the players will be based on security and performance of networks. The comments come in the…