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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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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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HBO GO Expands Its Content for Spanish-speaking Viewers

HBO’s online site for all of your viewing needs, HBO GO, has announced the launch of its best content to expand its offering to Spanish-speaking viewers. By bringing “HBO Latino”…

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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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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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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…

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Campus Party Colombia May Leave Bogotá in 2013

With only a few weeks left until the fifth edition of Campus Party Colombia, its organizers announced that the event may not take place in Bogotá in 2013. Controversy with…

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Brazilian Court Presses Apple to Unlock Lawyer's iPhone

A Brazilian court asked Apple to unlock an iPhone that a Brazilian lawyer had bought in the US, Gizmodo Brasil reports. According to the blog, it all started when Carlo Frederico Müller…

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Assured Labor launches TrabalhoJá in Brazil, an SMS-Based Job Site

Living in our bubbles, glued to our MacBooks from our offices in New York, London and San Francisco, we often forget that not everyone in the world has such access…

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Netflix Signs With Fox to Expand Content in LATAM

Netflix has signed a multi-year agreement with Twentieth Century Fox to license some of the studio’s programming for its Latin American online streaming service, the company announced today. As of…

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Apple's New iPad Launching in 30 Territories This Weekend

The new iPad is coming to 30 additional territories on May 11th and May 12th, Apple announced on its site today. While we already knew that the tablet would become…