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Facebook Acquires Israel’s Snaptu For an Estimated $60-70 Million

VC Cafe

Facebook surprised with its first acquisition in Israel today (and its second acquisition outside of the US), with the announcement that it is buying Israeli startup Snaptu (previously known as Moblica) for an estimated $60-70 million. The acquisition is supposed to close in a few weeks.

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Janvest Wants to Fill the Seed Investment Gap in Israel (Interview)

VC Cafe

In this time, as I said previously, we are looking to improve the valuations of our companies and get them ready for either a VC investment round (and an equity buy-out for us), or a strategic acquisition, such as Google’s acquisition of LabPixies back in April after 2 years of operating with just Angel capital.

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Create High-Impact Data Visualizations: Nine Effective Strategies

Occam's Razor

UK, Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia. Oh, or your main traffic sources and the visitor acquisition metrics? (This is embarrassing but I was surprised how big Italy is, and how small Sweden is.). The clusters of countries next to each other, for the sake of cleaner lines, all by itself has a built-in message. Cyprus and Ireland.

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