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Huggies’ device sends you a tweet every time your baby pees

Yes this is a real thing. Huggies has rolled out a device that will send you a tweet whenever your baby soils its nappy….

Single? Lonely? Here’s how to get a fake Facebook girlfriend

This is sad, desperately sad. A Brazilian company is helping all the lonely hearts out there on Facebook create perfect, but completely fake, girlfriends….

Emerging markets, ecommerce give Naspers big revenue boost

Emerging markets internet and media giant Naspers has announced revenues of R23-billion (US$2.6-billion) for the six months leading up to 30 September. That represents…

Opera gives 70m Brazilians access to app store in partnership with TIM

Opera has partnered with Brazilian mobile operator TIM to launch the TIM App Shop, which will be powered by the Opera Mobile Store. According…

Brazil Google head arrested over refusal to remove YouTube video

Brazilian officials have arrested Google’s President of Brazil Operations Fabio Coelho after YouTube refused to take down videos criticizing a mayoral candidate in the…

VEVO embarks on Brazilian adventure

Joint venture music video website VEVO is set to have a go at cracking the Brazilian market with a standalone music video platform and…

Google wants to bring Brazil’s Carnival to the world

Mention Brazil and a couple of things come to mind: golden sandy beaches, football, and Carnival. Now Google is trying to give everyone a…

Brazil sues Twitter over traffic cop alerts

First Indonesia wanted to crack down people who were “rude” on Twitter, now Brazil is demanding the social network block users who tweet about…

US still top Twitter country, Brazil climbs to second [Study]

The US is still the country with the highest population of Twitter users and Brazil overtook Japan to climb into second place. The most…

10 incredibly accurate predictions for the tech world in 2012

My search for answers had brought me a long way from home. Online expert and the subject of EMPIRE: How to Succeed with Nothing…

The next Facebook, Google, Twitter to come from Latin America?

Fernando Madeira is the co-founder and CEO of Terra, the largest internet company in Latin America. He boasts that the “next Twitter, Google, Facebook”…

Losing $80-million without blinking: Koos Bekker’s Memeburn Q&A

Naspers is an oddity. Who would have bet that a one-time newspaper company would have become an emerging-market internet giant? After all “Naspers” means…

Is Brazil the next ‘startup nation’?

Startup Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle is a must read for entrepreneurs and policy markers alike. This incredible book details how the…

Cybercrime costs $114bn annually, says Symantec

Cybercrime costs the world US$114-billion every year. That’s according to a report from global software security firm Symantec. The report adds that some 431-million…

Education brought to Amazon by internet “distance-learning”

The internet has allowed a school to sprout in a remote area of the Amazon where teachers tend not to linger due to harsh…

Twitter use in Indonesia on the rise

Indonesia is now the source of 15 percent of the world’s Tweets, coming in third place globally behind the US and Brazil, according to…

Facebook’s India-style viral curve in Brazil

If history proves a guide, Facebook will soon take over from Orkut as Brazil’s dominant social network. The curves on this graph show a…

The next great mobile wave, Bric by Bric

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — collectively known as the BRICs countries — represent the next great wave for both mobile telecommunications…

Top 10 South American brands on Facebook

When we think of Facebook most of us think of it as the domain of the English-speaking world. But the reality is that over…

Internet a new battleground in Brazilian presidential poll

Supporters of Brazil’s presidential run-off candidates are plugging into the Internet as never before, using online posts to highlight the campaigns — and to…

Broadband Africa Forum 2024

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