And while www.orkut.com.br was originally started in Silicon Valley, it was run by and then based in Brazil.
Vale, a mine operator based in Brazil has offices and mines worldwide.
"Most of the industry is located in California so I actually need to travel to California, " says Mr. Fernandes, who is the owner and general manager of Bio2, a product-development company based in Brazil.
More unusually, the honorary consul for Malta works from picturesque Fonmon Castle in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan and the honorary consul for Brazil is a scientist based in a laboratory in Cardiff.
What do you think, based on your reporting, not just in Brazil, but also in India - what does it take to break that gridlock?
Enersis ( ENI - news - people ) (ENI, 21) is an electricity generator and distributor based in Chile but reaching into Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Peru.
One recent example is NII Holdings (NIHD), a wireless services company based in the U.S. that does businesses Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Peru and Chile.
Kinross is a Canadian-based gold-mining company with mines and projects in Brazil, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Ghana, Mauritania, Russia and the U.S., employing approximately 7, 500 people worldwide.
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The societal divisions in Brazil are more often than not based on class divisions and regional differences, with northeastern Brazilians receiving the brunt of the discrimination.
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He cited news this week showing that Brazil was a noted buyer in October, based on International Monetary Fund data.
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Based in the southern Brazilian city of Prto Alegre, Gerdau is Brazil's largest producer of long steel (which is used primarily in construction).
Brazil is a cash-based society where people pay in cash for big stuff, like cars and houses.
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Last week, Cambridge, Mass based fund trackers at EPFR Global said that Brazil as a weighting in emerging market portfolios has gone from 16.7 percent in 2009 to 11.6 percent in November 2012, its lowest weighting since 2005.
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On September 29 of 2006 it collided in mid-air with a Boeing 737 used on Gol Intelligent Airlines, Inc. flight 1907 during a delivery flight from the Embraer factory in southeast Brazil to its US buyer, Long Island-based Excel Aire, an air charter company.
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New measures were put in place this month to tax dollar-based loans from offshore institutions based on Brazil.
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Although Apple is based in the US, it outsources production of its mobiles to factories in China and Brazil making them vulnerable to such a challenge.
The problem in Brazil is not so much currency appreciation, but how its consumption based economic model interacts with a strong currency, says Tony Volpon, head of Latin America research at Nomura in New York.
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The hikes were based on an exemption in the Mercosur trade agreement, a customs union made up of Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay, that allows those countries to protect domestic markets from import competition in times of economic weakness.
Nicholas Bernstein, CEO of start-up Brazilian media venture Corisco Films, based in New York and Rio, says it has already has a slate of films ready to make in Brazil.
The criteria for qualification also included company size, based on annual revenue, multinational presence and high familiarity among consumers in the measured 15 markets (Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Korea, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S.).
The criteria for qualification also included company size, based on annual revenue, multinational presence and high familiarity among consumers in the measured 15 markets (Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Spain, South Korea, the U.K. and the U.S.).
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