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Dog Days of Summer

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As the United States celebrated its Independence Day on July 4th, several jurisdictions around the world, including South Korea, Bermuda and Malta, passed legislation to support crypto assets and virtual currencies. Of these, South Korea’s appears the most detailed by providing a classification scheme as a framework for regulation.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter December 2010 Edition

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ISRAELI CROP PROTECTION GIANT MAKHTESHIM AGAN EXPANDS TO MEXICO AND KOREA. Makhteshim Agan, the world’s seventh largest agrochemicals maker, recently bought a 51% stake in South Korea’s JK Inc., In the Framework of the EC-Funded Invest in Med program, EyalGPS was one of three finalists to be awarded €90,000.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter January 2012

VC Cafe

“The Israeli economy is resilient and dynamic, and the macroeconomic policy framework is coherent,” the rating agency noted in the report. Though a global innovator, Apple in 2010 only invested 2% of its revenue in R&D, much lower than other high-tech companies. ” APPLE TO LAUNCH ISRAEL R&D CENTER.

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

There's probably things you could do in the world if you have a framework of even hundreds of years, much less thousands or tens of thousands of years." Sal Khan : If you go back to mid-February, it sounds like the world was very different then, but it was in mid-February that we started seeing traffic pickup in China and South Korea.