ITGumbo: spicing IT up

This week's edition of "Company Briefs" is inspired by BloggingStocks' Zack Miller's post, "Two Stocks to buy before Tuesday's Annapolis peace conference," and JobMob's Jacob Share's post, "67 Lists of Life Tips." When you're finished with these 23 headlines, you can also check out Eze Vidra's VC Cafe post, "Bitesize: A Low Calorie News Dose."

During the week of November 26th, the usual media attention allotted to Israeli technology was dwarfed by the attention the Annapolis peace summit received. Here's 23 headlines of news stories related to the Israeli high-tech sector that you may have missed that can a significant impact on the Israeli industry, including investment, in the near future.

Cleantech:

By 2020, fuel oil and diesel won't be used in Israel

Transforming the air we breathe into the water we drink

New proposals for competitive energy market

Ben-Eliezer commits to 10% clean energy by 2020
Ampal, Clal to develop wind projects

Investments, expansions and M&A:

Ness Tech in expansion mode in India

Diagnostic co Quantomix bought by El-Mul

InSightec raises further $30 million

Jerusalem Global to raise new VC find

RBC prepares shopping list of Israeli high-tech

Taiwanese invest in Israeli sensor startup

Skin treatment co HealOr raises $8 million

Ness Technologies buys Hungarian firm

Everything else:

Voltaire ranked as fastest-growing tech company by Deloitte

Israel pushing hard on nanotechnology R&D

UK and Israel have fastest growing tech firms in EMEA

Israeli firm enables voice, video messages

HP Israel wins Pele-Phone contract

Glide Mobile brings advanced online mobile computing to Israel

Israel, Korea to fund more R&D

Over 209,000 Israelis are Facebook members

Global industry:

New method for making diesel fuel uses vegetable oils

Google's next frontier: renewable energy