São Paulo

GOL Announces New Integrated Route Network

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday

SAO PAULO, Brazil, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes S.A. (Bovespa: GOLL4 and NYSE: GOL), Brazil's low-cost airline company, announces that it has received Anac (National Civil Aviation Agency) approval to implement its new integrated route network. The new timetable, currently available on the Company's website, will be effective beginning October 19, 2008. The new...

Braskem raises $725 million in export prepayment

Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday

SAO PAULO, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Brazil's Braskem , Latin America's largest petrochemical company, said on Thursday it raised $725 million in an export prepayment facility with a pool of banks, more than the $500 million it had initially hoped to obtain.

• Braskem Issues US$ 725 Million Export Prepayment Facility - PR News Wire

Moda Home Collection for Micasa by Adriana Barra

COOL HUNTING (Free subscription) | yesterday

Brazilian fashion designer Adriana Barra is well known for her vivid, dizzying prints on boho dresses. She recently applied these works to release a print-embellished Moda Home Collection for the highly conceptual furniture store Micasa in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Our favorites from the collection include 10 Mini Ice Boxes. Small, retro refrigerators that you might find in a dorm room, each pay homage to...

Latin American Markets: Mexican, Brazilian shares erase gains near session's close

Market Watch (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008

Brazilian and Mexican lose their grip on Thursday gains as Wall Street’s losses deepen in the final stages of the session on continued worries about the credit crisis.

Oi Paulistas

Travelblog (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008

Hey everyone sorry for the delayed updates...been busy wandering about and getting to know some people in Sao Paulo. For those of you who don't know Sao Paulo is the 3rd biggest city in the world at over 22 million people. And its freakin huge. Its a city of concrete not really pretty but it does have its moments in certain parts of the city parks museums and the people who are called P

Brazil hates Windows: pushes free OS

Gadgetell (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008

Section: Computers , Software / Applications When I was in Sao Paulo last April, a free Linux based OS was the furthest thing from my mind as I surveyed the Favellas (slums) as well as the metropolitan parts of the city. In this country of new hope, the government has taken an interesting tack: computers for all. Their plan is to offer a free operating system to keep computer costs low and thus more...

In Latin America, Pointing a Finger at the US

Time (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008

Analysis: Venezuela's Chavez may crow about the demise of the U.S. economy, but it will tighten his own belt. Latin America's big winner may instead be Brazil, the country that has best managed capitalism

Brazil: Pointers to the presidency

The Economist (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008

A good day for Sao Paulo’s governor FOR the past few weeks cars, motorbikes and even fishing boats across Brazil have been decorated with flags and stickers bearing the name of a candidate and the number of a party list. This visual bombardment has been backed up by jingles of maddening repetitiveness, blared out from lorries and cars, designed to hypnotise voters before they cast their ballot in...

Satyam eyes eastern Europe markets for IT deals

tech.clickjobs.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008

India’s fourth largest software exporter Satyam Computers is considering eastern Europe and Latin America as potential markets to expand its IT services. “We are looking at South America and eastern Europe to expand our market.. we have presence in Sao Paulo (in Brazil), but we would like to enter that market in a big way. Eastern [...]

Editora Referencia - Horse, Robot, ET -print, Brazil

Adland (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008

Neogama/BBH , São Paulo, Brazil created this campaign for Editora Referencia (Magazine Propaganda & Marketing) showing ET, Robots and horses reading their favorite mags. Cute. read more

Catarina Gushiken

JoshSpear.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008

I ran into a DJ here in Sao Paulo yesterday named Hisato who handed me a new EP from his rock-electro outfit, Hello, Kate!!, called Girls. Even before listening to the songs, I was struck by the incredible hand-done illustration in the liner notes (only an itsy-bitsy part of the actually long, horizontal painting is [...]

Adriano and Robinho poised to start for Brazil

Fox News (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008

Adriano and Robinho will likely be reunited to spark Brazil's attack in the qualifier against Venezuela on Sunday.

World markets slide again despite shock rate cuts

Examiner (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008

World stock markets swooned once more Wednesday as concerns about the state of the global economy outweighed a coordinated rate cut by top central banks aimed restoring confidence in the world's crisis-stricken financial system.

Whitakers make Horse of Year Show a family affair

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008

John and Michael Whitaker will be at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre this time thanks to postponement in Sao Paulo Brazil.

TAM has record international market share of 82.1% in September

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008

Domestic market share in September was 52.8% SAO PAULO, Brazil, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- TAM (BOVESPA: TAMM4, NYSE:TAM) announces operating data for September 2008, as disclosed by the Brazilian National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) today. (Logo: ) According to ANAC, TAM registered 15.0% growth in domestic RPK (demand) compared to the same period last year, and 17.5% increase in domestic ASK (supply)....