Brazil’s airlines are doing very well. The numbers speak for themselves. The country´s domestic air traffic has nearly doubled since 2003 and expert forecast it will grow by up to 12% this year. Last year, passenger traffic grew 15%. A good example of the vitality of the Brazilian air travel market is the start-up Azul [...]
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Can Salon’s Revamp Help it Stop Bleeding Money?
by Mark Glaser from MediaShift Salon.com was a pioneering website launched in 1995 by former editors of the San Francisco Examiner, mixing opinion and investigative reporting with a sharply progressive slant. Although the company went public at the height of the dot-com boom in 1999, it had lost more than $80 million by 2003, [...]
Brazilian Power.com introduces social inter networking portal
The New York Times highlighted the growth of Power.com, a start up social networking company from Brazil which aims to become the leading portal where people can access their virtual lives. Power’s investors include venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Esther Dyson. What the site does is to put in one place instant messages, [...]
Join Us – The Era of Collaboration
The Information Company has produced Join Us – The Era of Collaboration a series of programs about collaboration for the Brazilian channel Ideal TV. The program features exclusive interviews with the companies in the US that are leading the 2.0 revolution in San Francisco and Seattle. Organizations such as Wikipedia, Prosper, Craigslist, Google, CityCar Share, [...]
Brazilians are addicted to the Internet
Business in Brazil – The growing potential of the Internet in Brazil is astonishing. According to figures from Ibope Net Ratings, in July 2008 over 23.7 million people accessed the Internet.