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

Both Sides of the Table

The company started out in South Korea by making South Korean drama available on the Internet. You learn this in particular when you get involved with YouTube networks and find out that much of your traffic is coming from international sources – even when your videos haven’t been subtitled or dubbed.

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Export Online Without Frontiers: A Global Map of B2B Marketplaces

The Startup Magazine

Asia Trade Hub, based in India, Tradekey, based in Saudi Arabia, and EC21, based in South Korea, are the only pan-Asia marketplaces. You will find European manufacturers and distributors on Globartis, Enterprise Europe Network, Opportunity Network, and UpinSales. Opportunity Network is a marketplace backed by banks.

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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 are the most active Twitter country in the world (measured by tweets per account) and the third most socially networked. Our population churns out 181 patents per million inhabitants ranking us #8 in the world – ahead of the US, South Korea and Norway. On both these indicators, the Netherlands ranks second worldwide.

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3 Reasons to Benefit from the Coming Wave of 5G

The Startup Magazine

Certainly, it’ll be the high speed of connection, but actually, it’s the 5th Generation of mobile network. It’s what will improve a lot of areas of IT business and just change our lives by means of increasing the speed, coverage, and latency of wireless/mobile networks. Anyway, it’s only a part of the truth to know.

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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

The Next Web

An EU memo in 2010 stated the following discoveries: In the EU (but also in Japan and South Korea) the preference for being an employee is mainly motivated by considerations of stability (regular income, stable employment relation) and by the generally agreeable employment conditions (working hours, social protection).

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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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