OpenTable ventured across the Atlantic with its Electronic Reservation Book product offering for restaurants in the U.K. in 2004, and followed up by setting shop in Japan and Germany in 2006 and 2007 respectively.

FORBES: OpenTable Would Be Worth $70 If You Ignored Its International Business

But eight years after setting up shop it has yet to make a profit.

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Smallish United Nations outfits (dealing with climate change, for instance) are setting up shop.

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