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In a summit held this week at the Israeli Federation of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, many experts talked about the policies which boosted technology in Israel over the last years and how it could be implemented to improve the lives of Brazilians as well. The deputy secretary of Science, Technology, and Innovation of Rio Grande do Sul, Ghissia Hauser, stated that much of the technologies use in irrigation in Israel not just to avoid the waste of water, but to improve productivity in agriculture.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced this week the selection of five Brazilian startup companies which are considered "helpful to build smart cities". These startups are finalists of an event called Smart Camp, which will happen on November 10th and 11th , in Rio de Janeiro, and will unite government and business leaders

Vale announced that will suspend the potash project called Rio Colorado in Argentina. The mining giant already had invested US$ 1.1 billion and was expected to put at least US$ 5 billion more. The Brazilian company did not blame specifically the YPF nationalization for the decision, but cited "political uncertainty" as one of the factors. According to Vale, the decision was made before the nationalization.

RJCP Equity is a company based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which was created in a turbulent for investment time. The world was just starting to recover from the 2008/09 global recession, but Marcelo Bastos and his partners decided back then to invest in companies with some level of innovation through the equity firm...

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

Timizzer.com - More than a hundred years before it got international recognition through a partnership with Rabobank, the credit union which became Sicredi was starting by the hands of Theodor Amstad in 1902 in Nova Petropolis, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The founder was a Swiss Jesuit who came from England in 1883 and was trying to spread a cooperative throughout German colonies in Brazil. Continue: Timizzer.com

José Cezar Martins is a venture capitalist in southern Brazil. His company, Paradoxa, is based in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, and was designed to explore the startups of the region and "providing the resources and network to make a start-up a high-value asset". In an exclusive interview to Timizzer, Martins explains his experiences, including failures, the risks of co-investments and investments on innovation, the environment of innovation in southern Brazil, and starting a business with "little or no money". The entrepreneur thinks that the potential of his region, especially on intellectual capability, is underestimated by investors.

[ ] The now prominent Brazilian bank BTG Pactual started in a really humble way in Rio de Janeiro. Back then in 1983, it was just a brokerage. The initial idea was to distribute bonds and securities. …

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A survey released by the Center for Strategic and Competitive Thinking, from the University of Rosario, Bogotá, and the consultancy firm Cepet, says that São Paulo is the best city of Latin America considering opportunities of investments. The study ranked the top ten in the region. São Paulo was highlighted because of the size of its metropolitan area, the volume traded at the exchange Bovespa, and the huge number of multinationals in the region. Santiago (in Chile), which left the first spot from last year, places second, but continues to be very visible to international investors, says the study. Mexico city remained on the third place

Prosecutors in Brazil are demanding $10.6bn (£6.8bn) from US oil company Chevron for environmental damage caused when one of its oil wells leaked off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. The prosecutors also asked the court to immediately suspend the operations of Chevron and its drilling contractor, Transocean, in Brazil. Brazil has already fined Chevron $28m for the spill on 8 November. A Chevron official said the company had not yet been notified of the suit.

Atlanta Field is a post-salt oil field located 185km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro in Block BS-4 of Santos Basin, at a water depth of 1,550m. First production from the field is expected in mid-2016.

The 1,405MWe Angra-3 PWR nuclear reactor project is on again. The Brazilian Government has announced plans to complete the reactor, which will work alongside the other two at Angra, which is between Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. The project is estimated to cost $5.6bn and is scheduled for completion in 2018.