Edward Iwata
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Brazilian startup Hoplon Infotainment goes global with Taikodom online game
FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL — Hot Brazilian startup Hoplon Infotainment is gearing up to go global late this year or early 2010 with Taikodom, the first multiplayer online video game developed in Brazil. Founder and CEO Tarquinio Teles (pictured) said that Hoplon will team with undisclosed global corporate partners and publishers to launch the online game and related products, including science-fiction books, graphic novels and perhaps a TV series in the U.S. and Europe, then Asia.
Little known… Continue Reading
Brazil bringing TV-internet convergence to big market
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL — In Sao Paulo, a consortium of university researchers is nearly finishing a five-year digital TV project that could bring low-cost, high-quality broadcasts and TV-internet convergence to 50 million Brazilian households later this year.
Funded by the Brazil government and private industry, the digital TV initiative has teamed together hundreds of technologists to speed the convergence of digital TV and the Internet for Brazil, one of the fasted growing developing economies, whose growing… Continue Reading
Enterprise consultancy TCS expands in downturn, teams with startups
As the global downturn deepens and many companies lay low, business-services giant Tata Consultancy Services of Mumbai, India, plans to keep growing worldwide and strengthening its global network of startups, venture investors and technology partners.
In a recent interview with VentureBeat by conference call, TCS chief technology officer Ananth Krishnan said that many of the outsourcing firm’s clients “are using this period of economic uncertainly to streamline their IT systems and business processes.” Rather than slash… Continue Reading
Japanese Americans explore the power of ethnic networks in Silicon Valley
Ethnic networking is big in Silicon Valley. Indian professionals have The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE); and the Chinese and Taiwanese have their pick of the Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association (HYSTA), the Asian America Multi-Technology Association (AAMA) and the Monte Jade Science & Technology Association.
Now there’s the N! Leadership Network, a new group for Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals to connect in the business world. Recently founded by Michael Kanazawa, chief executive of consultancy Dissero… Continue Reading
Indian innovation thriving despite downturn and terrorism
MUMBAI, India – A grueling 20-hour flight from Silicon Valley, India’s megacity of Slumdog Millionaire fame seems far removed from the U.S. economic meltdown. Shoppers and diners fill stores and restaurants in the upscale Phoenix Mills shopping center and the trendy SoMo (South of Bombay) neighborhood.
Ritzy hotels are filled with business people and investors betting on the economic future of India. And nearly three months after the terrorists’ attack that led to 188 deaths here,… Continue Reading
India’s star in media and entertainment rises amid worldwide recession
MUMBAI, India –- As the global economy limps along, media and entertainment gliterrati jetted to Mumbai this week (Feb. 17-19) to celebrate India’s entrepreneurial spirit, the new era of multimedia and the worldwide growth of Indian industries.
It begs the question: Is the country be recession-proof? At the very least, the event showed how the global slump is viewed through a different prism in India’s emerging economy. Executives, policymakers and entertainers descended on the city’s ritzy… Continue Reading