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Brazil start search competition case against Google
2013-10-14 08:36:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) The superintendent of Brazil's federal antitrust court (Cade) has opened an investigation into alleged anticompetitive practices by Google and local subsidiary Google Brasil in the Brazilian online search market, reports The Wall Street Journal. The complaint was brought by e-commerce group Informacao e Tecnologia, owner of Brazilian internet commerce websites Buscape and Bondfaro, and by Microsoft, owner of online search provider Bing. The companies allege Google favours its own e-commerce search websites, such as Google Shopping, by discriminatory ad placement and content management, unfair data collection practices, and "anticompetitive restrictions" by Google's online advertising platform, AdWords. A court spokeswoman said Google would have 30 days to present a defense in the investigation.
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United Auto Group Looks to Establish Autodealer Network in Brazil for $459M
2013-10-14 06:45:59| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
U.S. business leader Marshall Cogan, in partnership with an Asian fund, plans to invest 1 billion reais in a luxury auto-dealership network that will begin operating in April 2014, the press said Saturday.
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Brazil rolls out secure email to counter US spying
2013-10-14 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Country to host Internet governance conference next April.
Brazil in reverse
2013-10-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: In the last five years, Brazil has joined the ranks of the world's big polluters, whose main source of greenhouse gases is the burning of fossil fuels. Climate pollution in South America's giant is taking on a First World pattern, according to José Marengo, one of the authors of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), whose first volume was released Sept. 30. And this is due, in part, to the country's policies to foment industry and consumption....
Brazil ethanol exports to U.S. at risk if EPA eases blend rule
2013-10-12 01:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.S. imports of Brazilian sugar cane ethanol could be cut by more than half if a draft proposal to reduce next year's U.S. biofuel blending mandate is enacted. While the U.S. corn-based ethanol industry has issued the most fierce complaints over news this week that the Environmental Protection Agency may ease volumes, it may be Brazilian ethanol producers like Raizen and traders like Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Vitol S.A. who suffer a deeper blow. There import business has been booming thanks to...
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