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Invest in Israel Newsletter – August 2012 Edition

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RENEWABLE ENERGY ALLIANCE BETWEEN COMPANIES FROM ISRAEL AND EL SALVADOR. Israel’s SDE Wave Power Plants and El Salvador’s El Esplendor Development Corp recently announced an alliance to execute Wave Power Technology in El Salvador and California.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter January 2012

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Though a global innovator, Apple in 2010 only invested 2% of its revenue in R&D, much lower than other high-tech companies. “Cotendo’s employees will find their places as employees of Akamai, and thus we will continue to grow,” Ronni Zehavi, who is CEO of the company, said. Israel Corp.

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Programmable Currency is coming

Start Up Blog

Any government in the world that moves to a non-sovereign currency (Like El Salvador has making Bitcoin its national currency), will lose control of its economy. They’ll be able to shape spending and investment in a way the global economy has never seen. It will give them an inordinate economic advantage on a global scale.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

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These people may be permanent employees, or they may work on a project-by-project basis, but they are managed very much as if they’re working right alongside you. At that time, Automattic had just 50 employees spread across 12 US states and ten countries. You can attend Stanford from Nigeria or Oxford from El Salvador.