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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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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

His name is Tomas Pueyo. Eric Ries : I had to do the math, and it's dangerous to do the math live, but I had to look up on Wikipedia the number of English-speaking internet users, which is about 1.1 One of my jobs in the past was consulting measures and acquisitions. He was not a famous author. He wasn't a media star.