Barnea Blog

How Blockchain will Revolutionize a Paper World

February 26, 2017 / by Barnea

In many ways, electronic communications dominate the world as we know it. We “talk” through email, text, and social media, to the point that the written letter is almost an anachronism. Still, some areas still thrive on paper. Real estate, for example, depends on paper deeds and documentation to confirm authenticity. Similarly, many corporations depend on paper records to demonstrate regulatory compliance. But blockchain is helping to change all of that. The technology that made Bitcoin work is expanding, in Israel and beyond, to help secure online processes and chains of custody in ways that can help shift paper-dominated fields into the 21st century.

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Categories: Blockchain | High Tech | Internet | Real Estate

Japan-Israel Relations: Advancing Technology

February 16, 2017 / by Simon Jaffa

For many years now, Israel’s emergence and growth on the world’s economic stage has captured the attention of national and private investors all over the globe. It is only in recent years, though, that this has come to include Japan. In the past few years, more and more Japanese corporations have opened R&D and sales centers in Israel, while business delegations are continually streaming into Israel. One of those companies which recently entered Israel is Fujitsu, the largest IT company in Japan and the fifth largest in the world.

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Categories: High Tech | Start- Ups

Taxation Factors for Operations Over the Internet

February 6, 2017 / by Barnea

The explosion of e-commerce in the last 15 years has made it easier than ever to manage the logistics of doing business in multiple countries. The global reach it creates, though, has spawned a litany of tax questions. You need to determine which jurisdictions have the authority to tax you and your business activity and what taxes apply. Your physical location and your end-customer locations can impact what you pay to whom, but other factors might also apply. Managing this process is critical to your continued e-commerce operations.

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Categories: Internet | Tax

Navigating Anti-Spam Legislation

January 25, 2017 / by Barnea

Spam consists of unsolicited text messages, email messages, faxes or auto-dial calls that are sent for commercial purposes. Due to the ease and low cost in which e-mails can be sent, e-mails are the main focus of any discussion concerning spam. In Israel and around the world, preventing unsolicited e-mails has gained attention as creating serious privacy concerns – in connection with the sending of unsolicited e-mails as well as in connection with the manner in which the e-mail addresses are gathered for the purpose of sending the e-mails. In order to tackle these issues, laws against spam were enacted across the world.

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Categories: Internet

Do NDAs Really Protect Startups?

January 15, 2017 / by Barnea

Investors in startup companies need to learn as much about those companies as possible to make an informed decision. You do not want to go in blind before you put money into a startup a company. Still, the company in which you seek to invest needs to protect its confidential and proprietary information; otherwise, it stands to lose the benefit of introducing an innovative solution to the market.

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Categories: High Tech | Start- Ups

8 Things that Happened in the Israeli Hi-Tech World in 2016

January 4, 2017 / by Ariella Dreyfuss

It has been an interesting 2016 in the Israeli Hi-Tech world, here is a rundown of 8 things that happened, in case you missed them.

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Categories: High Tech | Start- Ups

Foreign Corporations Also Have No Immunity – Organizing a Restrictive Arrangement is Liable to Lead to Criminal Sanctions

December 21, 2016 / by Ilan Blumenfeld , Daniel Kleinman

A restrictive arrangement organized between an Israeli corporation and a foreign corporation, which results in significant harm to the competition in the Israeli market, is subject to the Israeli Restrictive Trade Practices Law.

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Categories: Corporate | Regulation

Create Effective Website Terms and Conditions

December 18, 2016 / by Barnea

Your website exists to help your clients and customers find and interact with you. You may include e-commerce capabilities, or you may primarily seek to inform people about your company and your products and services. Whatever your goals are, though, you must be on guard; people naturally seek to rely on what they see online. This can be a good thing, but you need to create parameters around what they can and cannot rely on your site to do.

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Categories: Internet

Three Technological Predictions for the Next 5 Years

December 8, 2016 / by Yuval Lazi

The world around us is changing. In labs and living rooms around the world, people are creating new technologies and finding new applications for existing and emerging technologies. The products and services available to everyone thus expand exponentially every year. In the next five years, then, you can expect massive growth in what we can do. Three areas in particular will provide important developments.

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Categories: High Tech | Internet

Crowdfunding: Funding Companies in the Startup Nation

November 30, 2016 / by Barnea

For many small businesses around the world, crowdfunding – the pooling of usually small investments from a large group of investors – facilitates the ability to start a business without large institutional investments in the company. The portfolio of crowdfunding investors is diverse and is comprised of a broad array of ROIs (returns on investment). Investors may be donating to a specific cause, seeking repayment with interest or claiming equity in the company.

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Categories: High Tech | Start- Ups