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Yahoo Brazil has new president

Bruno Fiorentini, Yahoo Brazil’s President since company started in 1998, is moving to Australia, where he will lead Yahoo/7 operations. Yahoo/7 is a joint venture with Channel 7. He will be replaced by Guilherme Ribenboim, currently General Manager of Yahoo Search Marketing Latin America. Guilherme works for Yahoo since 1999

Brazil: Google introduced new features to AdWords

Google introduced today Add Scheduling and Day Part selections. From now on you can choose what day and periods of time to run your Adwords campaign. You can also determine different budgets for each day part. That is a huge improvment. Plus, finnaly we can manage our campigns according to

Brazil: Microsoft introduce SMS feature to MSN Messenger

Microsoft introduced this week a new feature to MSN Messenger: now you can send SMS messages from your computer while chating. You can also do it from your mobile phone to a computer connected to MSN Messenger. The feature is avaiable on 7.5 and Live versions. There are 90 million

Brazil: Vint Cerf 's visit to Brazil

Vint Cerf, Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist and so called one of internet’s father (have you noticed that all invention has a father, but no mother?) spent this week visiting Brazil. I had the privilege to have lunch with him yesterday, together with selected executives from ICANN and ISPs Association. Vint

Google v Attorney General – Brazil

Google is facing lots of problems here because of Orkut, its social network which is a huge success here. The Attorney General’s office, backed by a NGO, is making our friends from Mountain View sweat. Basically: Google must disclose information about Orkut users involved in child pornography. Google agreed to

Interactive Media in Brazil

Starting today you’ll find here updated content about Brazil’s interactive media market, with focus on SEM. As an introduction, here’s the internet landscape in Brazil: – 31 million users (as per Jan.2006; ranks #7 in the world) – users spend 18 hours online per month (as per Jan.2006; ranks #1