What do you get when a leading revenue management firm teams up with leading telecom billing solutions provider?

A pretty neat fraud detection and prevention solution with an expert delivery team.

Reporting in Globes this morning, ECtel (ECTX) announced a collaboration with Amdocs (DOX) in which ECtel will team up with Amdoc’s system integration services to market its FraudView product suite. The software allows advanced detection of fraudulent activity as part of customer acquisition, credit risk management, and new subscriber evaluation processes. (Continue »)

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IOI’s Zack Miller and Aaron Katsman were interviewed by CNBC’s Squawk Box. CNBC is here in Israel celebrating Israel’s 60th Birthday. See the video here.

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Lots of stuff going on — let’s jump right in. Also, for those who didn’t know, we’ve launched our own new subscription newsletter, Israel Opportunity Investor. You can find out more about the product and the opportunities we cover at www.israelnewsletter.com.

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Two Birthday Stocks (instead of jewelry)

Aaron Katsman has two good stocks that make better birthday presents than jewelry. Don’t tell my wife!

Incredimail gets dumped by Google
Katsman also has the scoop on Israeli Internet stock, Incredimail (Nasdaq: MAIL), and its Web 2.0 travails with Google.

Teva N. America President hops to Cardinal Health

George Barrett, chief executive of Teva North America (Nasdaq: TEVA), has resigned and will be replaced by William Marth.

Electronics for Imaging Drops

Electronics for Imaging (Nasdaq: EFII), the maker of digital printers and inks, fell the most in more than seven years in New York trading after the company reported preliminary fourth-quarter sales that missed analysts’ estimates.

Amdocs with AT&T win

Amdocs (NYSE: DOX) with a nice win at AT&T (NYSE: T).  It was a good 48 hours for Amdocs.

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We recently got a chance to sit down with Jon Medved, a rock-star in the Israeli tech world, to discuss his new startup. This interview appeared as part of our new subscription newsletter, Israel Opportunity Investor. You can find out more about the product and the opportunities we cover at www.israelnewsletter.com

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Jon, can you tell us what Vringo’s all about?
Jon Medved: It’s not just a company story; it’s a story about trends. The trend is personalization 2.0. The big bonanza which most investors missed, myself included, was ringtones. If you were pitching VCs a ringtone company in 1999,you wouldn’t have even been able to get a meeting. You would have been shooed out. The ringtone business has been a goldmine for those investors who got it. Now, it’s a $6 billion business worldwide. It’s becoming a major source of revenue for the music labels. Take Universal Music Group, for example. Music star, Akon, recently sold a batch of 11 million ringtones. And unlike iTunes, which sells songs for $.99, these ringtones go for $2.

It’s the drive for human expression to want to stand out in a crowd, to personalize things, to make them mine. Just like Jibbetz does for Crocs shoes, allowing you essentially to pimp your shoes, like wearing a T-shirt with a slogan on it, or slapping a bumper sticker on your car — Vringo is doing the same thing for the phone. (Continue »)

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