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BITS: Market leaders on plans for Brazil and emerging markets, por Leonardo Gottems
Timizzer.com – Brazil is on the spotlight for IT companies like never before. During Business IT Exhibition and Conference South American (BITS), a South American version of Cebit held in Porto Alegre, many major companies announced a set of plans for Brazil and other emerging markets.
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that an arm of Microsoft Research will be located in Brazil. Microsoft Research invests annually US$ 9 billion. One of the projects in the South American country is to install startups in stadiums for the 2014 World Cup. A partnership would be established with the construction consultancy Amsterdam Arena…
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Read MoreGoogle: 2012 is the year of smartphones in Latin America, by Leonardo Gottems
TIMIZZER.com – 2012 is going to be the year of smartphones not just in Brazil, but in all Latin America, said Hugo Barra, Google‘s director of Android products, during the Google Press Summit 5.0, which was held in Santiago, Chile. The executive explained that the number of Android activations in 2011 grew by 400 percent in Brazil. “Latin America will become one of the major markets of our technology”, stated Barra…
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Read MoreMeet the Brazilian behind Instagram, by Leonardo Gottems
Timizzer - Facebook is buying Instagram for US$ 1 billion. The curiosity about this case is that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is partnering again with a Brazilian to manage a social network. This time around apparently the Brazilian counterpart seems to be more lucky than Eduardo Saverin, who became a character of The Social Network film. Mike Krieger, one of the founders of Instagram, was born 25 years ago in the city of São Paulo…
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