Anna Siqueira

Fox and Yahoo! inked a marketing deal for the two companies’ respective Latin America services. The deal includes ads in the Latin American Fox channel and on the Latin American Yahoo! sites, including Yahoo! in Spanish and the recently launched Yahoo! Brasil. “Yahoo! goes on finding new ways of reaching its audience all around the […]

BuscaPé, a site that searches and compares goods prices from e-commerce sites, was launched this week from Brazil. The software used by BuscaPé was developed by three Brazilian partners in the last six months. There are 35 Brazilian e-commerce companies in BuscaPé’s catalog. Goods and services may be searched in six categories, such as supermarket, […]

Brazilian Internet security company and market leader Modulo Security Solutions has arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, searching for partners to explore the Argentine information security market. The company will invest US$ 2 million in the project implementation, aiming to conquer the Latin American market in the next two years, starting with Argentina and extending its […]

Brazilian Internet gate Universo On Line recently launched a marketing campaign in America to attract foreign partners, a move taken shortly before the arrival of various Internet heavyweights from the U.S. According to UOL director Caio Túlio Costa, the company set up full page ads in The Wall Street Journal in May as part of […]

After the formation of a partnership that will control 11 high speed metropolitan networks, Brazilian Internet2 needs money to build an RNP2 backbone. José Luis Ribeiro Filho, coordinator at Rede Nacional de Pesquisas, says that government and private companies support will be needed to go on with the Internet2 initiative in Brazil. The money injection […]

Brazilian companies ItautecShop Virtual, Martelo.com and Casa dos Leilões all run online auctions, and while Brazilian site figures are still low, the companies are very optimistic about the future. The Itautec site was the first to start online auctions in Brazil. According to Elaine Miguel Rodrigues, manager at ItautecShop Virtual, auctions are a great way […]

PSINet will be adding new services to its recently incorporated Brazilian ISPs by the end of 1999, and eventually intends to build a backbone in Brazil, according to Nadir Desai, president at PSINet for Canada and Latin America. “We plan to incorporate PSINet backbone in every market we operate, and hope the local tech people […]

According to the International Data Corp. (IDC), business-to-business e-commerce in Brazil will reach US$140 million in 1999 and US$1.9 billion in 2003. The figures show a growth of almost 1500 percent in four years in this market segment. IDC estimates that last year approximately US$60 million worth of business-to-business e-commerce transactions were conducted in the […]

The Brazilian companies Cisco do Brasil and KPMG Consulting launched two solutions for the quick implementation of e-commerce operations: Internet Commerce and Workforce Optimization. The products were developed in association with Systems Internet Business Solution Group (IBSG). “Cisco is engaged in the alliance with KPMG to help clients to understand and maximize the value that […]

Volkswagen in July plans to launch a business-to-business e-commerce system based on the Internet to process general purchases from 3,000 Brazilian and 500 Argentine vendors. According to Elias de Macedo, technology manager at Volkswagen, the goal of the e-commerce system deployment is cut costs in materials acquisition processes and diversify purchase methods. “When we use […]

Settled last December, the rules that regulate Internet access tests made by Brazilian cable TV operators are being put into practice. The Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel), a government agency that regulates telecommunications in Brazil, authorized the first cable modem tests on a grand scale to five cable TV operators: NetSul Comunicações, in Porto Alegre; […]

The first virtual Brazilian supermarket, the Pão de Açúcar Delivery is about to complete three years online, with a total of US$ 2,000,000 in investments. According to the group’s estimates, this year there will be a major leap in sales figures on the Internet, with the creation of a database on customers buying habits to […]