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The Rising AI Stars from China

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With its overnight success, the conspiracy theories about data being shared with China, coupled with an alleged hack of Deepseek, raised security concerns with the Pentagon, who immediately moved to block government employees from using it. With over $8 billion committed to AI-related infrastructure in Spain and the U.S.,

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

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Most of the informed people I know are telling me that the sharp sell-off has more to do with European national debt (PIGS as it is called: Portugal, Italy, Greece & Spain) than the current US dilemma of a S&P downgrade of the US government debt. I know that investors must also be aware of the civil unrest in the UK.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2011 Edition

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The Cerro del Aguila power station, located in Tayacaja Province in central Peru, in March signed a 15-year power purchase agreement with Peru’s government-owned electricity company, which will come into effect when the power station is completed in the second half of 2015. Israel Corporation is Israel’s largest holding company.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

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billion in 2007, as investors worldwide tightened their belts in the wake of the global financial crisis. real GDP growth for Israel in 2010 in the absence of extraordinary developments, and Fischer has said the economy may grow more than that if the global recovery accelerates. Foreign direct investment in Israel reached $3.8

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2011 Edition

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Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, is acquiring Provigent, an Israeli company which develops system-on-a-chip products that enable wireless system vendors to deliver broadband wireless backhaul systems to network operators.

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

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But as we now know 33% of the world’s population is now connected to the Internet, the majority of traffic to the major Internet properties is now global and at Benedict Evans pointed out in his recent report, more than 70% of the world’s literate population will have a smartphone within 4 years. Prices down. Network Up.

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Avoid Monoculture. Travel. Read Widely. Let Experience be Your Compass.

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I was living in Silicon Valley at the time of the panel, but I had been living abroad for 11 years before returning having lived in England, France, Italy, Spain and Japan as well as establishing physical offices in India. It globalizes. She encouraged people to get out and travel, see the world, see how other people live and operate.

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