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here has been three decades that Argentina and Britain joined a war at the Falklands. The war has a bunch of issues to be explored. Author of the book Rabinos de Malvinas (Rabbis from the Falklands), Hernan Dobry is an Argentinian journalist who has been a Bloomberg TV editor, a correspondent for Brazilian and Spanish channels in Buenos Aires, managing editor of Inversor Global, among other major publications. Dobry decided to write the book about the Falklands conflict to describe the unhumane struggles of the Argentine fighters at the time. Also, Dobry wanted to explore the relantionship between rabbis and the Armed Forces of his country.
In an interview to Timizzer, the journalist explains more on the book and talks about the economic issues of Argentina...
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Online education is on the rise in Brazil. A new survey by the Inep (National Institute of Studies and Educational Surveys) reveals the profile of the Brazilian online university students. The study says that 15 percent of all university students use Distance Education as online education is called in the country...
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A German immigrant in Brazil, Johann Heinrich Gerdau, or just João Gerdau, bought a nail factory in the Southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre in 1901. Shortly prior to the death of João Gerdau, his son, Hugo Gerdau started to manage the company. It seems a very simple story, but when Hugo Gerdau took over the nail factory in 1917, the expansion was so signficant that this is considered one of the major facts contributing to the end of the state of Rio Grande do Sul dependency of imports. Later in 1946, it was time to pass the control of the business to Curt Johannpeter, Hugo's brother-in-law. Two years later, they were buying a steel mill called Siderúrgica Riograndense. Therefore, the Gerdau group was created. And that was the first step to Jorge Gerdau Johannpeter to become years ahead Brazil's king of steel and the largest long steel producer in the Americas.
What people will be talking about on Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, and LinkedIn? Bernardo Huberman, director of HP Labs Social Computing Resarch Group, claims to have created a formula to predict people's behavior tendencies on social networks. The physicist introduced the formulas in a lecture in the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. One of his main tools is Twitter. According to Huberman, the level of attention a subject gains at the microblog determines how much it would spread and how big the revenue can be
Today Brazil is one of the emerging markets attractive for investments. Despite the incentives typical for strategic approach for creating favorable conditions, there might be some hidden drawbacks in policy or environment that might affect investors' decision-making.
Professor Paulo Moura, Political Scientist, reviews critically the current investment climate in Brazil