500 Startups, the U.S. startup investor/accelerator with a reputation for backing startups across the world, is deepening its efforts in Asia with a new $10 million micro-fund for Thailand.
500 Startups, the U.S. startup investor/accelerator with a reputation for backing startups across the world, is deepening its efforts in Asia with a new $10 million micro-fund for Thailand.
The U.S. government is deepening its effort to entice drug companies back into antibiotic research with a new public-private partnership.
Around the time that BlackBerry deepened its efforts in emerging markets, it also bought QNX Software Systems, whose operating systems powered technology ranging from medical devices to computerized automobile interfaces.
The Obama administration has made clear that it has no desire to deepen its efforts, mostly providing logistical support for the rebels.
TD Bank, in its effort to deepen its relationships with customers, redesigned the service experience to recognize customers as friends with pens that weren't bolted to tables, doors that didn't slam shut at 5 00, and lobbies that didn't shuttle customers like cattle through ropes and stanchions.
Obama embraced the idea in a speech to India's parliament that emphasized Washington's efforts to deepen its economic and defense relationship with the world's biggest democracy.
"This is part of the ongoing Israeli effort to deepen its occupation," said Nabil Shaath, a Palestinian cabinet minister.
The Orbán government has also been reproached for intimidating independent civic groups, including corruption watchdogs and minority advocates, and for its efforts to deepen ties with Russia.
The Communists, who abandoned the government last year in protest at its efforts to deepen India's ties with America, and who are currently fighting Congress in their main stronghold, West Bengal, predictably rubbished this prospect.Yet for the BJP to build a coalition would be even harder.
Rather than imitate Thailand and Indonesia, China could do what Argentina did in 1995: restructure its financial system, deepen the efforts to break up the huge, state-owned industrial firms and do more to open its economy to foreign trade and investment.
