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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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a Cambridge company that manages Web traffic for some of the Internet’s biggest sites, is acquiring website and mobile acceleration technology vendor Cotendo. Though a small competitor, Cotendo had been making big strides speeding up Web access on mobile phones, a fast growing segment of Akamai’s business. Akamai Technologies Inc.,

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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. Hiring local talent will force you to pay more than you can afford.