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Guru americano seleciona empresa brasileira para ajudar de graça
O guru do marketing Neil Patel (Foto/Divulgação) São Paulo – Considerado um dos melhores empreendedores de marketing digital do mundo – com empresas como Google, Amazon e GM entre seus clientes – o americano Neil Patel está interessado no Brasil. O especialista lançou na última sexta-feira (25) um desafio para pequenas e médias empresas daqui…
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Embraco cria a Diili, plataforma brasileira de Internet das Coisas
Internet das Coisas não é solução de futuro, pelo menos na Embraco, multinacional fabricante de compressores herméticos de refrigeração, com sede em Joinville, em Santa Catarina. A empresa criou uma plataforma batizada de Diili – Data Information Insight Learning Intelligence – que já está em funcionamento comercial em Santa Catarina, São Paulo e no Nordeste.…
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Salesforce: CRM is smaller than the market for ERP ?
The COO and CFO of cloud computing giant Salesforce talk about their growth and profitability, and how they’re helping industries do “digital transformation,” and refute a claim by Oracle’s Larry Ellison that their market for “CRM” is smaller than the market for “ERP.” Analysts noted the outlook for Salesforce’s “billings” came in a little below…
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The smartphone is going to die – and these tech companies are leading the race to kill it
The next phase of computing will soon replace the world of smartphones. Image: REUTERS/Stringer These are the quiet times. From April to June, tech’s biggest companies all held their annual mega-events, laying out their grand visions for the next 12 months or so. Facebook kicked it off in late April with its F8 conference, followed…
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The Lifeblood of Success: How to Encourage Innovation at Your Company
Image credit: Shutterstock Last month, President Donald Trump’s hand-picked leader of the newly created White House Office of American Innovation, Jared Kushner, held his first conference call to discuss the nation’s state of innovation. Coinsidering that those on the call included leaders such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Marc Andreessen and Elon Musk, Kushner…
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Silicon Valley’s immigration woes could be great news for Canada
The U.S. government is making it more difficult for companies to quickly hire talent from other countries, with a cap on expedited visas for highly skilled workers and a pending plan to overhaul the H-1B visa program. Meanwhile, Canada is testing new, speedier visas. On Monday, the Canadian government started its new program to issue work permits and temporary…
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How to innovate for the next 100 years
Entrepreneurs doing VC pitching are providing solutions to a problem they solve in a market. When you are really good at entrepreneurship, you begin to see how things that are not even close to sounding like the same problem can be resolved by the same solution. This is how innovation starts. Large institutions are racing to open…
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Disrupting government: Turning to innovation in its own back yard
© Thinkstock Hubs of innovation inevitably have a key factor – a geographic advantage or access to resources that make them uniquely positioned to be the renowned centers they are. For example, Boston is the home of some of the nation’s top medical programs (think Harvard and MIT), making it a hub for healthcare and pharmaceuticals.…
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One more innovation ranking
This year marks the 10th edition of the Fast Company World’s Most Innovative Companies ranking. Our reporting team sifts through thousands of enterprises each year, searching for those that tap both heartstrings and purse strings and use the engine of commerce to make a difference in the world. Impact is among our key criteria. WINNERS BY RANK…
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Innovation & Transformation: they are not synonymous
Innovation and transformation are often used synonymously, but they are different in the digital world. In some instances, transformation can lead to innovation. In others, innovation can lead to transformation, but this mutually causal relationship is often overlooked since they are thought to mean the same thing. While indeed related, it is crucial for modern…