Sapo, the largest Internet entertainment portal in Portugal, launched Sapo Local this week. This move follows others from Sapo news pages, that now specifically target sport, technology and economy. Sapo Local uses AJAX to gather news from different places into a personalized “news homepage”. This different places include blogs and

The Portuguese Justice minister Alberto Costa announced that the Internet is fast becoming the preferred method for Portuguese businessmen to create new businesses. A year and half ago, a program called “Empresa na Hora” (Create your company in one hour) was launched to speed up the process of creating a

Social media and Web 2.0 are rather recent concepts, but well known ones in the US. But in Portugal its praticaly unknown. In fact, only recently did some companies begin to invest seriously in some online initatives, that could be considered web 2.0 Sapo, as the main news and entertainment

According to marktest, during 2006, 848 thousand young people (15-24 years old) surfed the web a total of 156 million hours. That’s an average of 22 minutes online each/per day. Hi5.com is the page that gets more views, with an average of 2,3 million, followed by msn.com and google.pt September

Last year has been quite a busy one for the Portuguese stock market, mainly because of the takeover bid of Sonaecom over PT Telecom, the Portuguese main Telecom operator. In a very small market like Portugal this may have impredicable effects in the way we comunicate. PT Telecom owns the

A typical middle-sized company in Portugal has a website on the Internet, 85% of big companies do. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the website has probably never been updated since 1998, it’s in flash, you can’t find any product listings and the contact page (when there