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Victor Restis – How COVID-19 Has Affected the Global Shipping Industry

The Startup Magazine

states that the spread of the virus globally affected both the markets and vessel operations significantly. Mr. Restis’ home country of Greece is one of the premier tourist destination spots in the world, but they still build ships. Broaden the Global Supply Chains. Each nation has something to offer the global market besides tourism.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

Mostly we got to see the team operate in stressful times and that changed my perspective on the deal. But social unrest is created in harsh economic times and we’ve seen this in Greece before. I’m long on payment technologies. Depressing. It felt awful. Kind of like you felt as personal investors, no doubt.

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Startup To Translate Obama’s State Of The Union Address Up To 6,976 Languages In Real Time

YoungUpstarts

Babelverse is a start-up founded by Mayel de Borniol and Josef Dunne that was part of the government-backed accelerator program, Start-Up Chile. Babelverse recently emerged with top honors at LeWeb’11 , the internationally renowned technology conference based in Paris, France.

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People are the whole game - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

.   In the EU, for instance, it’s virtually impossible to dismiss anyone – for non-performance or anything short of outright theft – caught on video tape by a government certified camera operator. In Greece, 10% of the populace works for the government at higher than average wages.   They paid $100,000 for it.

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Why Nuance Is Giving It Away

www.businessweek.com

Bloomberg Government. Technology Solutions. Technology. Technology. In 2009, Nuance Communications ( NUAN ) , one of the largest players in voice recognition software, licensed its technology for use in a small mobile app. And for iPhone devel-opers in particular, there were few other options. Bloomberg Law.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

It’s not for a lack of technological effort from both startups and huge companies in all of mobile payments’ incarnations – SMS, mobile web, native apps, NFC, etc. But nearly everyone has wrongly placed emphasis on the mobile technology part and not on the payments aspect. Government fiat. Chris Chaten.

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