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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Hearpreneur

Amazon's hiring strategy is one perfect example of innovation. Applicants can simply right-swipe job advertisements that fit their credentials; otherwise, they can swipe them to the left. Beginning in 1995 as BackRub, Google slowly and steadily began to conquer the world. It’s very admirable. Photo Credit: Adam Garcia.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

Barclays Capital is opening a financial technology research and development center in Israel and plans to hire up to 200 people. 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.

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