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Brazil is using the law to push innovation, but here’s how it can do more

The Next Web

operations for Brazil-based Movile , a mobile platform for content and commerce. This is a step forward for the Good Law—which has already helped Brazil a lot—but private business and government need to start doing more to truly help launch Brazil’s mobile potential. Eduardo Henrique is the head of U.S.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Most of the costs incurred by Microsoft in developing new versions of Windows involve paying engineers to write software codes. As China, Brazil and India prosper, their increasingly wealthy populations demand more high-end products – a trend that favors the innovation industry. These costs are largely fixed.

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Consider Emerging Markets for Your Global Expansion

Transformify

Globalization is the most significant challenge facing multinational firms today, especially in the emerging markets of Russia, Brazil, China, and Mexico. Being the region's strongest economy, Brazil has played a vital role in accelerating economic growth in LATAM. Emerging Markets: Five Markets To Watch. The Bottom Line.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

Felipe grew up in Brazil. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. I wanted several of the software engineers to join me at our next startup but their employment was tied to BuildOnline. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Irony, hey?).

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: PagPresente

crowdSPRING Blog

This week, our small business spotlight comes to us all the way from Brazil (quick shout out to our team of Brazilian software engineers, Jonas and Adriano!). Currently, PagPresente only exists in Brazil, but they are looking to expand. It may not be admirable to admit, but it’s pretty universal.

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How cold calling (properly) works better than AdWords

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Search Engine Marketing and online ads on the other hand can be set up in minutes. He had studied business at Harvard and was an executive in the startup that built the first railroad from Brazil’s agricultural heartland to Sao Paulo. SEO is extremely powerful, but it takes time. This turned into a theme across several prospects.

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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

in Brazil and 0.8 Out of these 53m internet users, 15m are shopping online, creating a fast growing $11B ecommerce market in Russia alone (expected to reach $19B by 2015) The mobile penetration is among the highest in the world with 1.7 mobile phone per person for the Top 4 EE countries (vs. in GE, 1.3