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21 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

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It was originally a holding company founded by William C. He was ultimately approved after several years of application and soon progressed to the position of vice president of engineering at Cisco. She started HuffPo in 2005 when it was relatively unknown. Photo Credit: Ryan Jeffords. Durant in 1908.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

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In 2008, Teva acquired American company Barr Pharmaceuticals, a maker of generic birth control pills, for about $7.5 billion, and in 2005 it bought another generics competitor, Ivax, based in Miami, for about $7.4 Teva, Israel’s largest company, has a market value of about $56 billion.

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