To establish Trinidad S.A., a joint venture real estate development company, he first had to convince the Cubans that real estate was a good idea.

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Additionally, the cable companies and Verizon Wireless have formed an innovation technology joint venture for the development of technology to better integrate wireline and wireless products and services.

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He charges the joint venture for research and development, engineering, machine-building and other services.

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