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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

Trade in 2010 between Israel and the other countries that comprise Mercosur, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay, reached $1.8 Chipmaker Intel Corp has agreed to acquire mobile navigation software maker Telmap. Argentina became the last of the South American Mercosur trade block of four to sign a free trade agreement with Israel.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

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Brazilian President Luiz InĂ¡cio (Lula) da Silva gave Israeli President Shimon Peres his final approval for a free trade agreement between Israel and the Mercosur bloc (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay). Billing software company Amdocs has acquired mobile payments and messaging firm MX Telecom for $104 million in cash.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

I was writing some software, I was doing some product management stuff. It was so amazing, like we were trying to send payments into Uruguay to pay people who are listening to their homes on Airbnb. And so we eventually just sent $100 through it and asked somebody in Uruguay to tell us how much money showed up on the other side.

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