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Invest in Israel Newsletter December 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Altor Networks was founded in 2007 by security and networking experts from Israel’s Internet security giant Check Point. ISRAELI CROP PROTECTION GIANT MAKHTESHIM AGAN EXPANDS TO MEXICO AND KOREA. and is also buying 100% of Mexico’s Ingeniera Industrial S.A.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. So along come companies like Slide, RockYou & Zynga who wanted to build apps across all the social networks but were green-lighted the hardest by Mark Zuckerberg. Enter Facebook.