i3 - November/December 2016 - 10

By Mark Chisholm

Waze Could
Face Legal
Problems in
Brazil

I N T E R N AT I O N A L FO C US

BRAZIL

Google-owned traffic and
navigation app Waze could
face legal hurdles in Brazil,
pending the approval of
proposed legislation that
would ban tools that
alert drivers of radar
checkpoints. The bill,
first proposed by
Brazilian Congressman Major Fabio
in 2013, would
also extend to social
networks such as
Facebook. The bill
requires them to remove
users' posts alerting others
of police operations or
radar enforcement.

Glassdoor Acquires
Brazilian Startup for Latin
American Expansion
Employment review
website and service
Glassdoor acquired Brazilian startup Love Mondays
in September, in the
company's second-ever
acquisition. Love Mondays
focuses on providing
user-generated company
reviews, as well as boasting 75,000 job listings for
Brazilian employers.

INTEL APPOINTS
NEW HEAD OF
BRAZIL OPERATIONS

Microsoft,
Monsanto
Partner on
Agricultural
Technology
In mid-summer,
Microsoft and U.S. biotech company Monsanto
agreed to a partnership
that will invest in agricultural startups in Brazil.
The partnership, worth
up to $92 million, will be
managed by Microsoft
and focus on the creation
of new technological
tools to aid in agricultural
production in the country.
Qualcomm is also
investing in the fund.
Brazil is one of the world's
top five largest producers
of agriculture.
The startups are focused
on IoT, mobile and
biotech R&D approaches
to production.

Intel has tapped a 17-year veteran of the
company to lead its Brazilian operations.
Mauricio Ruiz will replace David Gonzalez, who
held the position for the last two years.
Ruiz is expected to continue work in areas
such as the creation of an "innovation ecosystem,"
while promising to pay specific attention
to local infrastructure problems.

Nearly 1.2 million PCs were sold in Brazil in Q2 2016*
*IDC BRAZIL

Samsung Benefits from Olympic Marketing
South Korean device maker Samsung held its lead in the Brazilian smartphone marketplace in the first half of the year thanks in part to Olympic
marketing campaigns. Yoon Chang-hoon, vice president of Samsung Brazil,
attributes the company's 54 percent market share to rapidly rising sales
of Samsung handsets following a marketing campaign tied to the 2016
Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Samsung has been an official sponsor
of the Olympic Games since 1998.
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