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14 February 2012 at 11 : 57 AM
Brazil will lead in service and marketing innovation
Recent research from social media research firm Semiocast shows that Brazilians are now second only to the USA in their use of the micro-blogging service Twitter. The U.S. still top at the 1st place on Twitter in terms of accounts with 107.7 million accounts. Brazil is now the second country with 33.3 million accounts, surpassing Japan now third at 29.9 ...
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7 February 2012 at 17 : 07 PM
Peixe Urbano sets the pace for international startups
For the past few years, the award every tech startup wants to win is a Crunchie - the annual Silicon valley event hosted by TechCrunch, the magazine focused on all things hi-tech and startup. The awards took place last week with some worthy winners, but one stood out for us here at IT Decisions because it's one of the biggest success stories in Brazil ...
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1 February 2012 at 12 : 09 PM
Brazil is not ready to handle cyber attacks
This week, international technology security experts McAfee and European think-tank the Security and Defence Agenda (SDA) released their Global Cyber Defense Report focusing on cybersecurity - and it did have good news for Brazil. ...
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20 January 2012 at 17 : 22 PM
UK Needs the Samba Beat of Brazil for Success
Brazil's economy has now officially overtaken the UK. So says economic research group, the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) in a recent report. In fact, the Economist Intelligence Unit has predicted that by the end of this decade the new international economic order will be China, the US, India, Japan, and then Brazil. Not a single ...
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30 December 2011 at 14 : 24 PM
A foreigner’s Portuguese language journey
I arrived in Brazil earlier this year and knew that I would need to use Portuguese to survive here, but my attempts to learn the language while I was still living in London were beset with problems. ...
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16 November 2011 at 11 : 32 AM
Renner board bets on IT to grow
The recent Economist Brazil Summit in São Paulo focused on how Brazil will change in the decade to 2022 - a significant date because it will mark 200 years of independence from Portugal. One of the conference speakers was Deborah Wright, an independent member of the board at Lojas Renner, one of the largest department store retailers in Brazil. ...
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14 November 2011 at 11 : 41 AM
IT Decisions CEO shortlisted for major prize
It's always an honour and a pleasure to be shortlisted for any major award, but to find myself on the shortlist twice for something as prestigious as the Computer Weekly Social Media Awards 2011 is quite a thrill. Computer Weekly is the premier technology journal in the UK and their Social Media awards have been running for four years now - almost as ...
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11 November 2011 at 09 : 24 AM
IAOP: Brazil IT should not copy other countries
The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) is a global network of over 110,000 executives involved in the outsourcing business. Michael Corbett founded the IAOP in 2005 and is the association's current chairman. He was in São Paulo last week for the Brasscom Global IT Forum and IT Decisions caught up with him on the sidelines of ...
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9 November 2011 at 15 : 01 PM
SmartCamp Brazil – vote for a startup now
IBM SmartCamp Brazil has just announced the final five startups in this year’s competition. SmartCamp is aimed at identifying early stage entrepreneurs who are developing business ventures that align with the idea of improving the world around them. ...
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9 November 2011 at 13 : 00 PM
IDC: Brazil IT is not thinking of the future
David Tapper, from industry analyst group IDC, knows the outsourcing marketplace inside out. His own take on the strategy being outlined for Brazil at the Brasscom Global IT Forum was that most in the industry are being too short-sighted and focused on business models that used to work - not the business models of the future. ...
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