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14 May 2012 at 18 : 49 PM
ITD Research: Social media and the CIO
Social media is now deeply embedded in the corporate world in Brazil. About 90% of Brazil-based businesses are using social networking tools to promote their products and services and many large organizations now turn to these tools as the first place to look when hiring new employees. ...
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7 February 2012 at 16 : 43 PM
Poll results: English in Brazil IT
The IT Decisions LinkedIn group recently asked readers a question related to the use of English in the IT industry in Brazil: How important are English skills to IT professionals in Brazil? We checked the group today to see the results and they are quite conclusive. 76 per cent of respondents said that a knowledge of English is now essential ...
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3 November 2011 at 05 : 45 AM
State of Brazil IT: What does Brazil IT need?
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 section summarises the past few articles and issues a call to action for everyone in the IT industry in Brazil today... Click here for the complete State of ...
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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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12 October 2011 at 15 : 06 PM
Brazil IT needs more foreigners
I have been browsing the discussion boards on LinkedIn recently, looking at what people in the Brazilian IT industry are saying they think is needed to improve things here. One online proposal caught my eye earlier today - invite more European IT professionals to come and work in Brazil. ...
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5 October 2011 at 06 : 49 AM
Brazil is digital now, but maybe it’s not obvious?
It's great to see US entrepreneurs coming down to Brazil and writing about the hi-tech economy in well-read media such as The Huffington Post - a title I write for myself - but it's not always so great when some of the facts are misrepresented or mistaken. So when I read Steve Rosenbaum's report from the Digital Age 2.0 conference in São Paulo last week ...
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25 July 2011 at 17 : 08 PM
Start the week #21: IT consumerization
It's time to start another week. But this week, we are all excited about the phenomenal response the new IT Decisions research network enjoyed. We had CIOs from sixteen different industries in Brazil contributing to the research last week focused on the consumerization of technology. ...
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19 July 2011 at 04 : 45 AM
Facebook addicts can get fired in Brazil
The IT Decisions publishing director, Angelica Mari recently started a discussion on LinkedIn focused on the legality of employees using the Internet at work. She asked: "In Brazil, using the web for more than an hour for activities that are unrelated to work is considered as gross misconduct and can lead to justified dismissal. What is the legal ...
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18 July 2011 at 16 : 42 PM
Start the week #20: Train derailed and foreigners denied
Welcome to a new week and one where we are going to get back to the usual publishing rate, because we just enjoyed a major launch! ...
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15 July 2011 at 14 : 13 PM
Success in China needs respect, patience, respect
Rick Struzynski is an international sales manager for scientific instrument company Leica Biosystems, part of Leica Microsystems, based in Chicago. He read our recent comment on China and intellectual property and participated in the LinkedIn debate - explaining that he had worked in China for several years and had also spent half of last year working in ...
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