Posts Tagged "Brazil"
Who is winning at the last frontier of the world markets, by Leonardo Gottems
Timizzer.com – In the last few years, people have shifted their attention from the traditional economies like the United States, Europe and Japan to emerging economies in Asia and Latin America, but currently not many investors are considering what could be the last frontier in the world in terms of markets.
Africa is still an intact contact where millions of people suffer with scarcities, hunger and diseases. However, some places are starting to reverse the scenario of tragedies of the last decades. The most prominent example is Angola. Its GDP grew to a record rate of 20 percent in 2007, according to the IMF. The following years the country saw an average growth of 15 percent. Even with the global crisis and a looming Chinese slow down, Angola has been forecasted to grow by 10.5 percent in 2015 – just behind Iraq (12.6 percent)…
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Read MoreBrazilian Innovation: Online Litigation
Timizzer.com - Many companies cause a lot of damage to Brazilian consumers. Most of them prosecute those companies: yearly five million Brazilian consumers seek support to their rights in the courts. However, the number of people suing companies could be significantly bigger as many of them are afraid to get out of their comfort zones and disrupt bureaucracy in the country. New startup is revolutionizing the common trend…
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Read MoreBrazilian government invests US$ 250 bln on startups, by Leonardo Gottems
Timizzer.com - The Brazilian government has released a plan on Monday in São Paulo to stimulate the technology through an investment of US$ 250 billion on startups until 2015. The program, called TI Maior(Major IT) or Strategic Program for Softwares and Services of TI, has a target of 900,000 new jobs in the sector and to double the revenue of software developers. A training for 50,000 professionals will be sponsored by the government. The move is part of Brazil’s National Strategy to Science, Technology, and Innovation.
The investment for each new company will not be over US$ 100,000. About 150 startups will benefit by the new program…
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