Because of the global recession that is said to affect the world’s poorest the most, the International Monetary Fund is in focus once again. The crisis has brought it back from the dead. ‘Two years ago the world’s main international economic institution was heading for irrelevance, its homilies ignored by rich countries, its advice despised [...]

PayPal is the largest “intermediary payment” service in the world. For those who do not know, works like this: you create a PayPal account (usually associated with a credit card) and when you do some shopping online, instead of passing your bank details to any vendor that you may not know, you use PayPal as [...]

Brazil will soon be the world’s hottest sports center as they will host the World Cup 2014 followed by the Summer Olympic Games in 2016. As Brazil prepares to play the role of a punctilious host, officials in its capital, Rio de Janeiro recently unveiled their plan to build a beautiful green-roofed eco-hotel that focuses [...]

The social network LinkedIn focused in professionals announced that now has 50 million users in the world.
In a post in the official blog, CEO Jeff Weiner detached the participation of India as one of the reasons for the ascension of the site. In a small period of time, he says, the country almost [...]

Over the years, Goldman Sachs has declared that the emerging nations like Brazil, Russia, India and China. (BRIC) will be the economic powerhouses in future. Citigroup too has declared the increasing influence of China and India in the rest of the world with their increasing prosperity.
However, this economic prosperity has not actually trickled down the [...]

In the beginning of July, a preliminary study was published which was prepared by the Herzog & Of Meuron office, and contracted by São Paulo State’s government. Just one hundred square meters will separate the building of the Júlio Prestes Station – projected by Christiano Stockler of Neves and in which ten years ago [...]

Four selections of Europe conquered their vacancy on this Saturday, after the next to the last round of the preliminary rounds for the World Cup of 2010. Denmark, Serbia, Germany and Italy didn’t give chances to their opponents and stamped their respective passports. Of the nine groups, only two will still need to define which [...]

Forget peak oil. What the world will grapple with in the future is something far scarier than the alarm over peak oil: peak water. And just like oil, the problem behind water scarcity is the unequal distribution of and unequal access to the resource.
The global imbalance in the distribution and access to water looks dismal: [...]

It happened on that last Saturday in Iguaçu Falls the second edition of the South American Championship of Cell Phone Throw and the 1st World Championship of LaptopThrow, event that gathered 120 participants. The intention of the event was make people becoming aware on the final destination importance of the electronic garbage.
Collecting 2 kilos of [...]

Latin America is rich in oil. It has 132 billion barrels of ‘proven’ reserves. The US sources much of its oil supplies from the region. ‘Venezuela, Brazil, Mexico, and Ecuador have significant reserves and strong state involvement in the exploration and production of oil through their nationalized companies Petróleos de Venezuela (PdVSA), Petrobras, Pemex, and [...]