Browsing Day February 14th, 2011
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14 February 2011 at 21 : 00 PM
Facebook poaches Google LatAm vice president
Google's vice president for Latin America Alexandre Hohagen has stepped down to join Facebook. In his new role, Hohagen will be leading Facebook's operations in Brazil as vice president for sales in Latin America. Hohagen joins Facebook at an interesting time: while Google-owned Orkut is still the main social networking site in Brazil, the Facebook's ...
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14 February 2011 at 20 : 31 PM
R$9m RFID research center launches in Brazil
The first R&D lab in Brazil equipped to carry out large-scale testing and research of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology was launched by minister of science and technology Aloizio Mercadante last Friday. The R$ 9m center, funded by the government and based in the city of Campinas, São Paulo, is the first of its kind in the country as it ...
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14 February 2011 at 20 : 35 PM
IT Decisions NASSCOM special – Apex Brasil on strategy for 2011
IT Decisions talks to André Limp of ApexBrasil, the Brazilian trade and investment promotion agency, at the NASSCOM 2011 conference in Mumbai, India. Limp gives an overview of the agency's priorities around technology in the wake of the presidential elections, his views on the frequent comparisons of Brazilian IT companies with their Chinese ...
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14 February 2011 at 17 : 29 PM
IT Decisions NASSCOM special – Why no Brazil?
Alex Blues, IT Outsourcing head of PA Consulting talks to IT Decisions at the NASSCOM 2011 conference in Mumbai, India. Blues has advised blue chip end-user organisations on their sourcing strategies across Europe, US and Asia for the last 15 years. In this video, he gives his impressions of the lack of Brazilian companies and government at NASSCOM. He ...
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