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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2011 Edition

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Its Java-based applications replicate many of the features of smartphone applications, but make them accessible to the millions of people that don’t own a smartphone. Unemployment fell to 6.1% in January, as the number of Israelis out of work dropped to 189,300. Unemployment had dropped as low as 5.9%

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. We have seen the damage that this share structure can cause over the long run, said Anne Sheehan, head of corporate governance for California State Teachers Retirement System, a big public pension fund.