By Tova Cohen TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Israel’s Arab minority is seeking its share of high-tech success in a “start-up nation”, a quest that has already turned Jesus’s boyhood town of Nazareth into an incubator for innovation. Over the past decade about 7,000 tech companies have been founded in Israel, where high-tech goods and services account for 12.5 percent of gross domestic product. Only 30 Arab-led tech firms, however, the
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s struggling electronics maker Sharp Corp is set to post a net loss of 180 billion yen ($1.45 billion) in the current year through next March, Kyodo News reported on Thursday, without citing sources. Sharp last month secured a $1.9 billion bailout, its second major bank-led rescue in three years, and reported a net loss of 222 billion yen in the last fiscal year, its third net
(Reuters) – Dish Network Corp and T-Mobile US Inc are discussing a deal to combine the second-largest satellite TV operator in the United States with the fourth-largest wireless carrier, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Dish and T-Mobile US shares were up 5.6 percent and 4.8 percent respectively in morning trading on Thursday, whilst those of T-Mobile’s majority owner Deutsche Telekom were up 2.9 percent. A deal,
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