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The Power of Torso TV (Why Media is Racing to the Middle)

Both Sides of the Table

Chris Anderson wrote a really influential book some years ago called “ The Long Tail ” that shaped how many people think about emerging Internet markets. This was how companies who produced media became big before the Internet. The company started out in South Korea by making South Korean drama available on the Internet.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

We boast the world’s second highest fixed broadband Internet subscription rate only an inch behind Sweden. Ninety-four percent of households are equipped with a computer and have Internet access (the others are still playing 8-bit Nintendo). We don’t have a ‘Paypal’ mafia, a Netscape brethren or an equivalent strong network in tech.

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3 Reasons to Benefit from the Coming Wave of 5G

The Startup Magazine

The majority of consumers thinks that it’s just a better and faster version of mobile Internet like it was with 4G LTE. Certainly, it’ll be the high speed of connection, but actually, it’s the 5th Generation of mobile network. It’ll work with the older generation without a need for immediate removement of the previous network version.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

And my specialty was computer networks. By the way, this was still pre-Netscape, pre-Internet. There was one in Silicon Valley, unsurprising, one in Chicago, and there was this group out of the south of France that served all of Europe. Probably the internet helped because they needed internet skills in their strategy group.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter December 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

NETWORK EQUIPMENT MAKER JUNIPER BUYS ISRAELI VIRTUALIZATION SECURITY FIRM ALTOR FOR $95 MLN. “Juniper is excited to acquire one of the industry’s leading virtualization security vendors and the extremely talented team that built it,&# – Mark Bauhaus, executive vice president and general manager, Juniper Networks.

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What Do Increased Mobile Speeds Mean for Your Business?

Up and Running

might have been among the first to deploy commercial LTE networks, but it ranks far lower in terms of 4G bandwidth delivered. The networks in Hong Kong, Denmark, Canada, Australia, South Korea and Germany all performed better. megabits per second (Mbps), according to a study by OpenSignal.

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Service Exports - Driving U.S. Startups and Small Businesses

Growthink Blog

In the last 6 months, we have advised clients and investors, in no particular order, from Kenya, India, Italy, South Africa, Germany, China, Brazil, Mexico, Switzerland, the U.A.E., Canada, England, South Korea, Japan, and Uruguay. Korea, Iran, et al.), So from 95%+ U.S. And growing. That stuff? Ideas and Innovations.