established a presence in in 1974  Facebook first entered the Israeli tech in with FIVE EMPLOYEES ecosystem when they acquired Israeli mobile  Today the company employs about 10,000 app developer SNAPTU in 2011 and an Israeli PEOPLE in Israel face recognition platform FACE.COM in 2012  Intel has FOUR DEVELOPMENT CENTERS in Israel located  In 2013, Facebook acquired Israeli start-up ONAVO, in Haifa, Yakum, Petach Tikva and , as well as which led to the company’s decision to open offices in manufacturing-related facilities in and Jerusalem

 Google first opened an office inISRAEL in 2006  In January 2012, Apple acquired Israeli startup , whose 200 EMPLOYEES  They now employ more than 600 ENGINEERS became the basis for Apple’s Israel R&D center in Israel who work on several of Google’s core products, including Search, Maps, and Live  Apple’s HERZLIYA CENTER is their largest Results R&D unit outside of its headquarters in Cupertino, California. Johny Srouji, an Israeli Arab from Haifa, is  Google also has a dedicated startup space in the vice president for hardware technology. Tel Aviv known as “CAMPUS,” which provides entrepreneurs with a place to start and grow their businesses

 Microsoft founded its R&D CENTER IN  In 1972, Israeli professor Josef ISRAEL in 1991, when several Redmond, Raviv established the IBM ISRAEL Washington-based Israeli employees SCIENTIFIC CENTER in the Technion’s wanted to return to Israel and Microsoft Computer Science Building in Haifa didn’t want to lose them  Today, over 1,000 INDIVIDUALS work at IBM R&D  MICROSOFT ISRAEL was the first R&D centerthat Microsoft locations across Israel, including Haifa, Tel Aviv, opened outside of Redmond Herzliya, , and the Jerusalem Technology Park  Microsoft Israel R&D Center is one of three strategic GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT CENTERS situated around the world  In recent years IBM acquired over a DOZEN ISRAELI TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES, which have been  Microsoft had grown its R&D team in Israel to employ about subsequently incorporated into IBM R&D Labs in Israel 1,000 PEOPLE

 Samsung R&D Institute Israel (SRIL) was established in 1997  HP ISRAEL was officially founded in 1998, and is  It was Samsung’s FIRST R&D headquartered in Ra’anana, Israel CENTER outside of South Korea  All of HP’s organizations are represented in their  Since then, Samsung has QUADRUPLED investment in 7 SITES IN ISRAEL including, sales, marketing, R&D, Israeli innovation, with two venture capital operations manufacturing, and labs and two R&D facilities  Of their 324,600 employees worldwide, 5,700 are based in Israel  In the past decade, HP has invested over $6 BILLION in the acquisition of Israeli companies, including the establishment of production plants; makingbecoming the second largest investor in Israeli IT