Google stepped into Israel late Monday with the acquisition of LabPixies, a company that develops personalized Web site gadgets for mobile devices and Google's personal search engine homepage,
iGoogle. Israel became a hotbed for technology startups in the late 1990s and early 2000s. A variety of businesses set up shop in Tel Aviv to create innovative products, from silicon to wireless.
Google says it launched iGoogle in 2005 to fulfill the need for gadgets on personalized homepages.
LabPixes helps to
fill that need.
