Browsing Month March, 2011
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31 March 2011 at 19 : 38 PM
Group buying comes of age
Brazil is growing, but so is inflation. Despite increasing prices, consumer spending shows no signs of slowing and the online group buying phenomena has a lot to answer for. ...
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31 March 2011 at 15 : 04 PM
Nova Pontocom eyes e-commerce growth
Nova Pontocom, the business that consolidates the online operations of some of the largest high-street retailers in Brazil, is expecting to see growth well above its peers in the next couple of years. ...
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31 March 2011 at 11 : 18 AM
What’s the future for Brazilian techies?
The courts have ordered the São Paulo IT workers to end their dispute and to head back to work while a final settlement is agreed between the workers union, Sindpd, and the employers representative, Seprosp. The decision to be made in April is around whether the IT workers will get an 8.05% pay increase, R$10 lunch allowance, mandatory profit sharing ...
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30 March 2011 at 19 : 22 PM
Mexican IT firm to create 500 jobs in Brazil
IT and consultancy services provider Hildebrando said it will launch its second unit in Brazil next month and generate up to 500 local jobs within the next three years. ...
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30 March 2011 at 19 : 33 PM
IT strike goes on trial
The IT workers union for the state of Sao Paulo, Sindpd, and Seprosp, the organization representing the IT employers have staged the latest chapter of the strike saga at the Tribunal Regional do Trabalho (TRT), the Regional Work Court. ...
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30 March 2011 at 13 : 22 PM
Brazil sees growth in sci-tech research
The Royal Society in London released a new study this week titled ‘Knowledge, Networks, and Nations’, which looks at the global landscape for science and technology research. ...
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30 March 2011 at 11 : 47 AM
Moving to a different class
If you find the British class system amusing – with Prince William and his fiancé splashed all over naff merchandise – then the Brazilian class system is something else. They have developed class into a stratified set of groups defined only by income and ordered into groups, from A to E. ...
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30 March 2011 at 09 : 42 AM
Italian firm joins competition in Brazilian financial software
Financial systems firm Tagetik has launched its operations in Brazil, the company announced today. ...
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29 March 2011 at 13 : 00 PM
Is business English good enough for IT?
IT Decisions asked the question 'Do IT workers need to learn English to really get on these days?' and many of you responded. Neil Ruedlinger, from Australia, took the time to give a detailed answer so we are posting his message here on the main site to encourage further debate on the issue of Brasscom reviewing English language training for Brazilian IT ...
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28 March 2011 at 19 : 03 PM
Meritocracy is our method, IT supplier says
While most large IT suppliers scramble to deal with their public relations strategy around the protests of IT workers across the state of Sao Paulo, automation software giant Totvs was keen to stress that its policy in terms of salary and benefits is different to the rest of the market. ...
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