Apple appeals iPhone exclusive trademark loss in Brazil
Are we in for a rerun of last year’s iPad trademark episode in China? It’s certainly shaping up that way. Read more »
Report: Apple loses exclusive iPhone trademark in Brazil
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A Brazilian company that registered the trademark in 2000 is also allowed to legally use the iPhone name in Brazil, according to a ruling reported Wednesday. Read more »
Tracking trees: How M2M is being used to prevent deforestation in Brazil
The Brazilian government is working with the private sector to shut down illegal logging operations in the Amazon by connecting trees. If a monitored tree is chopped down, environmental authorities can track it all the way to the sawmill. Read more »
Gawker expands into India as part of Nick Denton’s plan for world domination
Gawker Media has embarked on an ambitious international expansion plan, including the launch of a new partnership with the Times of India. The network also has a Spanish-language site and a series of Brazilian sites, and founder Nick Denton says China is next. Read more at paidContent »
Google News wars are here again: Schmidt vs France on ‘news tax’
What happens in Belgium doesn’t necessarily stay in Belgium. Now Google News is facing a Brazilian boycott and France is threatening to copy a German-style tax on excerpting its newspapers. What’s an aggregator to do? Read more at paidContent »
Mobile boom means big challenges for Vevo’s global roll-out
One of the many digital content services going global is music video outfit Vevo. Certain new countries mean a mobile-first approach – but that puts services at the mercy of a mobile ad ecosystem they say is still playing catch-up to desktop. Read more at paidContent »
Google News faces mass newspaper boycott in Brazil
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A skirmish between Google and newspapers over crawling of news headlines suggests Latin America’s digital publishing sector is maturing. But can Google keep publishers sweet enough to exploit opportunities in the fast-growing Brazilian market? Read more at paidContent »
Newspapers go to Rio for growth and discovery
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As domestic newspaper circulation shrinks, The New York Times and Financial Times are launching editions for Latin America in Brazil. But why is one in print and the other digital-only? Read more at paidContent »
Kobo partners with Livraria Cultura to sell e-readers in Brazil
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Kobo is partnering with Brazilian bookstore chain Livraria Cultura to sell e-readers and ebooks. Ebook sales makes up less than 1 percent of book sales in Brazil but are expected to grow fast. Kindle also plans to launch in Brazil this year. Read more at paidContent »
Portugal shows how the Eurozone crisis is turning the old world upside down
Western technology companies have traditionally looked to developing economies as a place to find cheap, abundant talent. But thanks to the Eurozone’s problems and the sovereign debt crisis, things are changing rapidly: Just ask the Portuguese, who are finding themselves subordinate to fast-growing Brazil. Read more »
Germany’s Otto Group steps up Brazilian invasion
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The world’s largest mail order company is one of the main investors in the Redpoint e.Ventures fund, which aims to exploit Brazil’s continuing shift to e-commerce Read more »
São Paulo ahoy! Why Euro startups are targeting Brazil
The German couponing service KaufDa is the latest service from the region to set its sights on Brazil, following in the path of the Rocket Internet steamtrain Read more »
Why India and Brazil are the next hot e-book countries
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India and Brazil are on their way to becoming e-book powerhouses, but their path there looks different from the transition in the US and the UK. Here’s why. Read more at paidContent »
The next hot smart grid market: Brazil
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With its booming economy, growing middle class and investments in city infrastructure, Brazil is looking to be the next hot market for smart grid development. Read more »
10 things to know about tech startups in Brazil
Compared to Mexico, the web and mobile startup ecosystem in Brazil is hot — probably too hot. Here’s 10 things you should know if you want to build, buy, invest in or work at a tech startup in Brazil. Read more »
Why Niklas Zennstrom thinks Brazil’s startups are hot
Niklas Zennstrom, the founder of Skype and Kazaa and the founding partner of investment firm Atomico, tells me that he’s been spending a significant amount of time in Brazil looking for and meeting with Brazilian entrepreneurs. Read more »
Kobo heads to Brazil this fall
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Kobo will launch in Brazil this fall, VP Todd Humphrey said yesterday. Amazon’s Kindle may get there first. Read more at paidContent »
France’s Viadeo has ‘headstart’ on LinkedIn in China
With $32m in the bank, French professional networking site Viadeo is expanding internationally — and the head of its Chinese operation says that the company is expecting to go head to head with Reid Hoffman and LinkedIn. Read more »
Viadeo gets $32m to become LinkedIn for the world
French business networking site Viadeo has long played second fiddle to LinkedIn. But with a fresh round of funding in the bank, the company plans on becoming the world’s leading player thanks to growth in countries like China, Russia and Brazil. Read more »
Wrapp races to outpace DropGifts with German launch
In what is starting to look like an e-commerce version of Risk, Wrapp is retaliating against clone-artists Rocket Internet by launching on their home turf and detailing ambitious expansion plans Read more »
China leads the second coming of the smartphone
After leading the world in smartphone sales, the U.S. reign is over. China will take over the top spot this year and has no plans of looking back. India and Brazil are also moving up, bringing a “second coming of the smartphone” to the world. Read more »
Amazon Kindle To Japan And Brazil This Year?
Kindle may launch in Japan and Brazil in 2012, according to reports published in the last week. Read more at paidContent »
Nokia Series 40 phones: 1.5B sold and counting
One day before Nokia announces results for the most recent quarter, the company is touting a sales milestone: 1.5 billion Series 40 phones sold. That’s a huge accomplishment, but Series 40 now faces challenges from low-priced Android phones, so the momentum may not continue. Read more »
After China, Apple has its eye on Brazil
China is Apple’s second-most-important market after the U.S. But when it comes to finding other new emerging markets to sell its wares, Apple has its eye on Brazil. CEO Tim Cook spoke of the country’s growing importance during Apple’s quarterly earnings call on Tuesday. Read more »
Apple pulls just ahead of Google in U.S. smartphones
Apple blew away observers and analysts on Tuesday with record earnings that included 37 million iPhone sold, which helps explain why research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech said Wednesday that Apple’s U.S. smartphone market share now exceeds that of Android devices. Read more »
Taboola goes international, launches sponsored video placement
Video recommendations provider Taboola is offering a new product to its customers that will allow them to boost viewership with paid placement in its video widgets. The company has also found success internationally, as it is being used for recommendations in Brazil, Israel, Mexico and Poland. Read more »
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Will cloud computing push the BRIC market to the front?
“Cloud first” markets — those where companies’ first serious engagements with information technology are in the form of cloud computing — are beginning to emerge. For the BRIC economies in particular, this might mean a chance to adopt low-cost solutions that will give companies a clear ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Latin America's Digital Boom: It's Coming From The South
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Netflix is heading south, but what about Roku & Apple TV?
A big part of Netflix’s growth has been its embrace of connected and mobile devices, which now contribute 80 percent of all Netflix traffic. With the company expanding to Latin America, one has to wonder: How many of these devices are available in countries like Brazil? Read more »
Can Netflix beat Latin America’s pirates?
Netflix is coming to Brazil and other Latin American countries this week, where it will be competing with thousands of street vendors peddling unlicensed DVDs. Can the service beat piracy, or will it be too expensive for the average consumer in Brazil and beyond? Read more »
Peixe Urbano brings daily deals to Brazil — and beyond
Groupon has shown just how popular daily deals sites can be in the United States — but Latin American daily deals site Peixe Urbano is proving that an appetite for bargains knows no borders. Since its March 2010 launch, Peixe Urbano has attracted 11 million users. Read more »
For Foursquare, Brazil is the next big check-in
Foursquare is no longer a US phenomenon – the company is beginning to see some rapid growth in highly mobile societies and the newest one to join the party is Brazil which like Indonesia represents future growth for services like Foursquare. Brazil is already hot for Foursquare. Read more »
Why Latin America is Netflix’s next big market
Rapidly expanding economies, the growth of broadband connectivity and a wide-open market for low-priced entertainment could be a winning combination as Netflix looks to expand its offering outside the U.S. All of which is why Latin America represents huge potential growth for the company. Read more »
Cloud computing is Latin America’s great equalizer
Here in the United States,cloud computing has allowed emerging companies to build much faster and much cheaper.But in Latin America, the development of the cloud has been nothing short of transformative. And developments are moving rapidly. Read more »
Amyris Goes Industrial Scale with Bio-Chemical
Amyris has opened its first industrial scale facility to turn sugarcane syrup into Biofene, a form of the industrial chemical farnesene, which is a fragrant hydrocarbon that’s used to make cosmetics and lubricants. It’s a big step, though not quite yet to commercial-scale biofuel production. Read more »
Lawmaker in Brazil Aims to Make Broadband Access a Right
A Brazilian senator has pushed forth a bill that would declare access to broadband a social right in the country’s constitution. Other Brazilian social rights include access to education, health, food, work, housing, security, retirement, child protection and assistance to the homeless. Read more »
Brazil: The Next Hot Smart Meter Market
Brazil hopes to install 62 million smart meters by 2020, and companies like Silver Spring Networks, Landis+Gyr and Echelon are targeting the market. Read more »
What Shell’s Brazilian Biofuel Megadeal Means for Codexis
Dutch oil giant Shell and Brazilian ethanol giant Cosan sealed the deal Wednesday on a $12 billion joint venture to turn sugarcane into pump-ready fuel. How will the massive partnership affect Codexis, Shell’s biocatalyst partner and recent entrant to the public markets? Read more »
The Battle of the Food-based Biofuels
While we wait for cellulosic ethanol to ramp up to commercial-scale, the corn-based ethanol industry continues to hang on with a little help from Washington — President Barack Obama indicated over the weekend that import tariffs on Brazilian sugarcane ethanol won’t be ending anytime soon. The […] Read more »
4 Mac Security Apps Compared
The security of your Mac can fall into a few different categories. One such category would be that of preventing data loss (i.e. making regular backups). Apple has helped to make this easy in recent years with the inclusion of Time Machine in OS X. Another […] Read more »
