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eToro Social Forex Trading Raises $2.4 Million More Led By Social Leverage

VC Cafe

The product is built almost as a game, targeting both entry-level and expert users. Techcrunch also notes the parallels of eToro’s platform with StockTwits, which could be a nice growth engine for both companies. eToro is based in Tel Aviv, Israel with offices in NY, Australia and Cyprus. Most recently, eToro added $6.3

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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

The company is based in Cyprus with development centers in Belarus, Israel and China. Blackberry does not have native code support, so we could not port our own voice engine to BB. We cannot let them down, so we need to release well-tested products. Viber is pretty small given the scope of what we do. Maybe someday.

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Going Global: 8 Things to Consider If You Want to Expand Your Business

Up and Running

Is it that your product has minimal competition or is cheaper than competitors? Are there greater opportunities for higher rankings in the search engines, or is the design of your website helping or hindering you? ( As you can imagine, the product didn’t perform too well. Building connections.

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