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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

This month’s trend continues to be acquisitions of Israeli firms by large US corporates. Facebook’s acquisition of Face.com will enable the social network to embed face recognition software into its photo app. This is Facebook’s second acquisition in Israel, following the acquisition of Snaptu for $70m in March 2011.

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Transcript of How to Turn Marketing Costs Into Profit

Duct Tape Marketing

The one side, I think it’s a really interesting point you bring up, which is does it immediately lean toward to creating new products and services? Another one that I would throw out a big Cleveland hat tip to is Lincoln Electric, another mid-sized company that makes welding torches. And now what are we? Are we a media company?

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