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25 April 2013 at 14 : 23 PM
Gringoes: why would you live in Brazil?
I'm a regular reader of the Gringoes.com website. It's a magazine for foreigners living and working in Brazil and the downsides of being in Brazil are a regular theme of articles and discussion, particularly in the associated Facebook group where readers can vent their opinion openly without the need for an editor to approve what they submit to the ...
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23 February 2012 at 17 : 01 PM
Latest LatAm research from Tholons
The research and advisory firm Tholons has just released their latest paper focused on the hi-tech service sector in Latin America, specifically IT and Business Process Outsourcing. Naturally Brazil takes centre stage in the Tholons findings. You can read the entire Tholons Latin America report here, but our quick summary of the main comments focused on ...
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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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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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21 November 2011 at 18 : 11 PM
Rhodia IT boss on handling a merger
It’s all change at specialty chemicals firm Rhodia. The French company has been acquired by Belgium-based firm Solvay earlier this year and IT is an important aspect of the merger, so IT Decisions caught up with Rhodia’s infrastructure and strategy director Fernando Birman about the plans for technology for both firms in the next few months. ...
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2 November 2011 at 12 : 50 PM
Brazil economy set to overtake UK in 2011
As the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) arrives in São Paulo for their conference on the future of the Brazilian economy this week, they have just released new research indicating that Brazil is about to replace the UK as the world's sixth largest economy. ...
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1 November 2011 at 19 : 42 PM
State of Brazil IT: English for tech professionals
With The Economist in Brazil this week focused on where Brazil is heading in the next decade, IT Decisions is commenting on a series of points raised during discussions in our LinkedIn forum. This chapter of our report State of Brazil IT discusses the language skills - English in particular - of Brazilian technology professionals. English is not ...
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4 October 2011 at 13 : 16 PM
Q&A: Genpact and the Twitterverse
When IT Decisions leader, Mark Hillary was recently about to meet the vice chairman of Genpact, Pramod Bhasin, he asked his followers on Twitter for their questions. Mark chose the three best questions and put them to Bhasin during a meeting in São Paulo. In this video you can hear the Genpact executive explain: What is Genpact doing to sustain ...
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4 October 2011 at 13 : 56 PM
New BPO player: you need to be in Brazil
Genpact is a global giant in the world of business process outsourcing. They were spun out from GE in 2005, creating a service company that could serve GE and compete on the open market for other clients. Within the past month, the company has opened an office in São Paulo, but they are already finding it too expensive to consider expansion - they are ...
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28 September 2011 at 15 : 05 PM
Education in Brazil – it no longer works
The popular Brazilian news magazine Veja has a striking front cover this week featuring a business executive with steam bursting from his ears above the headline 'Não dá mais' - it no longer works. ...
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