Robert Andrews
Dec 9, 2011 6:41 AM
Latin America’s online entertainment prospects are booming because an economic recovery has put connected devices and disposable income in people’s homes and pockets, according to the co-founder and CEO of one of the region’s biggest companies.
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Joseph Tartakoff
May 17, 2010 4:25 PM
The rush of private sales deal-making continues; This time, it’s Brazilian private sales firm Brandsclub, which has raised $17 million in a funding round. Fifteen million of the total comes from South African media giant Naspers, according to a report in Brazilian tech site Baguette (via TC). Brandsclub claims 1.2…
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David Kaplan
May 17, 2010 12:07 PM
Like a lot of companies investing in the BRIC countries lately, Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) is looking to build up its presence in Brazil with the purchase of one of that country’s major legal publishing houses, Revista dos Tribunais. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. At the end of…
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Rafat Ali
Sep 29, 2009 2:46 AM
Naspers, the South African media giant, is continuing on its online acquisition spree across Europe and now Latin America: it has acquired 91 percent stake in Brazilian online e-commerce group Buscape.com, for $342 million. Buscape provides comparison shopping solutions to more than 100 portals and websites in Latin America, including…
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Tameka Kee
Mar 23, 2009 9:20 PM
You couldn’t pick a more inopportune time to launch a new gaming console: video game sales remain strong, but the global financial slump has tanked overall electronics sales. But stealthy startup Zeebo isn’t worried about that. The S.F.-based company unveiled its namesake device at the Game Developers Conference today, a…
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