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Pay-as-you-go computers in Brazil
I?ve decided to come clean and admit it. I hope Brazil wins its sixth World Cup. So for those of you cheering for the Ghanas and Ecuadors of the world, you will find little solace in this post, which extols the virtues of corporate superpower, Microsoft, and its latest business venture in...
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This Week: Brazil’s Buses Cooler Than its World Cup Team?
It’s painful as an (admittedly fairweather) fan of the US team to acknowledge that even with all the gossip about how Brazil’s World Cup team is performing below expectations?they will still probably fly home with a sixth championship under their belts (I’ll refrain from making a...
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Cell Phone Banking and the BOP: Wizzit
Driving to Wolftrap this past Friday, a story on NPR?s Marketplace prompted me to turn up the volume ? the national business media was covering WIZZIT, a South African cell phone banking firm that NextBillion has covered extensively in the past. For the uninitiated, WIZZIT is a 1-year-old...
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Biodegradable Plastics
In the 1967 film The Graduate, Walter Brook gives a baby faced Dustin Hoffman advice he should never forget. ?I want to say one word to you. Just one word.? After pausing for dramatic effect, he continues, ?Plastics.? Now, almost forty years later, Dustin Hoffman has forty times the...
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