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Covid-19 Updates

Brazil sets a new record for COVID-19 deaths

Zoom's headquarters in San Jose, California
Business

Education and financial services are Zoom’s target industries in Latin America

The video-first unified communications provider has seen its revenues jump by 326% during the pandemic and is betting on international markets to grow in 2021. LABS talked to Alfredo Sestini, head of the company in Brazil and leader of enterprise sales for the region

by Fabiane Ziolla Menezes

Economy

Brazil’s economy shrank last year by 4.1% amid the pandemic, less than forecast

It was the worst drop in decades, but not as much as originally expected due to cash transfers to the poor; Brazil's economy grew by 3.2% in the fourth quarter

by Reuters

Business

Brazilian Fintechs Geru and Rebel merge to manage a BRL 1.5 billion credit portfolio

Holding Open Co assumes a BRL 1.5 billion loans portfolio and a customer base of 100,000 people and expects to generate BRL 1 billion in credit in 2021

by LABS

lime e-scooters
Technology

Uber announces integration with Lime, for renting scooters within its app in Chile

by LABS

Logo from the Brazilian e-commerce solutions firm Infracommerce
Business

Brazilian firm Infracommerce files for IPO and aims at acquisitions

by Reuters

Technology

Twitter: warnings and a strike system against COVID-19 vaccine misinformation

by Reuters

Experts

Rodrigo Ghedin

Your last minutes of free time

Why do Netflix, Spotify, Clubhouse, and almost all the big techs in this world have against doing nothing? I try (sigh) to explain this here

Gabriela Grosskopf Antunes

How books, movies, and even mediums “predicted” the COVID-19 pandemic

After almost a year in this trap of fate called COVID-19, I revisited the “visionary” works of literature and the entertainment industry that, someway, predicted what we are living today

Thiago de Aragão

With US-China relations shift ahead, Brazil will have to change its geopolitical approach

Bolsonaro's government built a foreign policy based on a primary mistake: it personalized the United States in the figure of Donald Trump. Good old pragmatism has to come back to the table

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  • Technology

    TikTok introduces Content Advisory Council in Brazil

    Mar 03, 21 - 10:20 am

  • Economy

    Brazil’s economy shrank last year by 4.1% amid the pandemic, less than forecast

    Mar 03, 21 - 9:59 am

  • Business

    Brazilian Fintechs Geru and Rebel merge to manage a BRL 1.5 billion credit portfolio

    Mar 02, 21 - 5:23 pm

  • lime e-scooters
    Technology

    Uber announces integration with Lime, for renting scooters within its app in Chile

    Mar 02, 21 - 5:09 pm

  • Zoom's headquarters in San Jose, California
    Business

    Education and financial services are Zoom’s target industries in Latin America

    by Fabiane Ziolla Menezes

  • Students from the public school system in the Brazilian state of Bahia undergo COVID-19 tests
    Society

    Brazil joined COVAX Facility; but approval of emergency use of vaccines in 5 days is vetoed by president

    Mar 02, 21 - 2:16 pm

  • Logo from the Brazilian e-commerce solutions firm Infracommerce
    Business

    Brazilian firm Infracommerce files for IPO and aims at acquisitions

    Mar 02, 21 - 1:13 pm

  • Technology

    Twitter: warnings and a strike system against COVID-19 vaccine misinformation

    Mar 02, 21 - 10:52 am

  • Business

    Disney CEO says households without kids have boosted streaming success

    Mar 02, 21 - 9:24 am

  • Bus operated by the Spanish corporate shuttle services startup BusUp
    Business

    Mobility startup BusUp raises a € 5 million Series A round and forecasts a five-fold growth in its largest market, Brazil

    by Anna Lima

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