VC Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Trade in 2010 between Israel and the other countries that comprise Mercosur, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay, reached $1.8 Trade with Argentina, on the other hand, only reached $130 million due to high tariffs on Israeli goods there. Chipmaker Intel Corp has agreed to acquire mobile navigation software maker Telmap.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio (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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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

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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