Anna Heim

Anna Heim is a polyglot French news junkie with a love for anything digital. A Sciences Po Paris alumnus and a Brazil lover, she has also worked in Canada, Spain and the UK in the Film & TV Business. You can follow her on Twitter.

Stories by Anna Heim

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Google Sued in Brazil, Lawyers Answer with Risotto Recipe

Google’s lawyers accidentally included a risotto recipe in an appeal submitted to Brazil’s Superior Court of Justice (STJ), the Brazilian website G1 reports. Here’s the offending document as published by G1:…

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Miss Google's Moog Doodle? Here's an app you should download

Did you enjoy Google’s tribute to the late Robert Moog yesterday? If so, you may want to download Mobeat, a nice retro synthesizer iOS app with a Moog feel. Launched in…

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Fox Sues Dish Over Ad-Skipping Feature Auto Hop

Fox is suing Dish Network over its ad-skipping feature Auto Hop, The Hollywood Reporter reports. Here’s the Fox’s statement it published: “We were given no choice but to file suit…

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Gmail To Become Available in Welsh and 'Latin American Spanish'

Gmail will soon be available in Welsh and Latin American Spanish, Google’s email service announced on its blog today. The information was posted by Chris Yang, one of the company’s…

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Sequoia Is Definitely Opening An Office In Brazil

Yesterday, The New York Times’ DealBook reported that VC firm Sequoia Capital may be opening an office in Brazil, citing unnamed investor sources. Need a bit more solid confirmation? Well, look no…

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Social Calling Platform KipCall Launches on Android

The social calling platform KipCall is now available for Android devices in beta version, the French startup announced during TC Disrupt in New York this week. As we reported when…

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Here's What Happened at the Webby Awards

The Internet Week New York reached its acme yesterday with the Webby Awards. Held at the Hammerstein Ballroom, the red carpet event celebrated the best of the Internet. From lolcats…

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Start-Up Chile's Demo Day is Coming

Start-Up Chile‘s Demo Day will take place in Santiago this Wednesday, and will be the first big opportunity for some of the international teams who had been selected last September to…

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This Week in Media: From IWNY to YouTube's 7th Birthday

With the Internet Week taking New York by storm for the last few days, it has been yet another busy week in the media world. Here’s our selection of news and…

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Paper is the Main Problem of Traditional Media

Do you feel guilty when you read a newspaper? You probably should, according to BuzzFeed’s co-founder Jonah Peretti, who has “a moral issue” with print publishing and its environmental impact….

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Tumblr Now Available in Portuguese for Brazil and Portugal

Tumblr is now available in Portuguese for Brazil and Portugal, the company announced on its staff blog today. According to the startup, this means that its platform is now available…

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The FT's Digital Subscriptions Could Outnumber Print

By the end of the year, the Financial Times could have more digital subscribers than it sells print copies, FT.com‘s managing director Rob Grimshaw predicted this week during an on-stage interview with NewsCred‘s…

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Dominican Republic Gets SMS-Based Facebook, Chat and Email

Dominicans can now update their Facebook status, send emails and chat via their feature phones without Internet access thanks to a new service called vSocial, the mobile service company ForgetMeNot…

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How Over-TheTop Services Can Succeed in Latin America

How to be successful with an over-the-top TV service in Latin America? That is the question some of the sector’s experts tried to answer yesterday during a panel at Streaming…

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How to Close a $1M Round With Dave McClure

Update: Dave McClure has clarified in a comment how the deal negotiation actually happened: “We discussed terms via face2face mtgs and phone calls, then confirmed closing via SMS. not exactly…