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Invest in Israel Newsletter – August 2012 Edition

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Wired Magazine has crowned Tel Aviv the world’s second largest center for technology start-ups after Silicon Valley. In its September issue, the science and technology magazine created a list of 10 European cities that constitute significant centers for high-tech activity. See the headlines below. . Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc.

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New Story and 3D Printed Homes

Feld Thoughts

In the past four years, New Story has funded over 2,200 homes, building 17 communities for over 11,000 people across Mexico, Haiti, El Salvador, and Bolivia. This is a breakthrough technology that will cut costs, increase speed, and improve home design quality. They have now come up with a unique model for scaling their impact.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter January 2012

VC Cafe

The company currently has only one technology development center, which is at their headquarters in Cupertino, California. Leading computing company Apple is acquiring Anobit, a developer of flash controllers and smartphone memory enhancement technology. Akamai Technologies Inc., AKAMAI BUYS ISRAELI COTENDO FOR $268 MLN.

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The Future of Remote Work: Navigating the Talent Crisis, Harnessing Diversity & AI Upskilling

Duct Tape Marketing

And as time went, and as you know John, I know a lot of business owners like you do, and everybody was asking me, and this assistant was from El Salvador and everybody was asking me constantly, where's your assistant from, et cetera. And I was referring them to another company. 02:02): I said, you know what? What do I mean by that?

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A Conversation with 2020 Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang

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On his website, he states that, “new technologies – robots, software, artificial intelligence – have already destroyed more than 4 million US jobs, and in the next 5-10 years, they will eliminate millions more. Technology is going to displace many more workers than it’s going to create opportunities for in the coming months and years.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures says: “I feel that the ability to spin up and then successfully operate remote engineering locations is a skill that technology companies need to develop earlier in their development than used to be the case.”. You can attend Stanford from Nigeria or Oxford from El Salvador.

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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. And the reason is simple – crypto currency technology, has many features fiat currency does not.