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Amazon Preps Brazilian Fulfillment And Delivery Network
Amazon Preps Brazilian Fulfillment And Delivery Network
January 22, 2019  |  Amazon Profile

Amazon is getting ready to launch the fulfillment and delivery network it has long been eyeing in Brazil, reported Reuters. Citing Amazon Country Manager Brazil...

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Visa, AmEx, Mastercard Face Antitrust Charges In Brazil
Visa, AmEx, Mastercard Face Antitrust Charges In Brazil
November 18, 2018  |  VISA

Visa, American Express and Mastercard are among the payment companies that are the subject of an inquiry by Brazilian regulators. According to a report in Bloomberg...

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Brazil’s Movile Notches $400M In Funding For iFood
Brazil’s Movile Notches $400M In Funding For iFood
November 14, 2018  |  Retail

Around two decades after starting as a digital content studio, Brazil’s Movile has notched $400 million in new funding in what has been reported as...

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Visa Invests In Brazil Payment Co Conductor
Visa Invests In Brazil Payment Co Conductor
October 23, 2018  |  Investments

Visa, the payments company, announced Tuesday (October 23) a strategic minority investment in Conductor, a digital payments processing technology platform in Brazil. In a press release,...

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Amazon Could Be Coming For Brazil’s Pharmacy Market
Amazon Could Be Coming For Brazil’s Pharmacy Market
October 12, 2018  |  Amazon

Following Amazon’s acquisition of PillPack in June, Morgan Stanley Analyst Javier Martinez noted that the eCommerce retailer could take on the drugstore market in Brazil. Such...

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Tencent Invests $180M In Brazilian FinTech Nubank
Tencent Invests $180M In Brazilian FinTech Nubank
October 09, 2018  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

China’s Tencent Holdings paid $180 million for an undisclosed minority stake in Brazilian FinTech Nu Pagamentos SA (known as Nubank). As a result of the...

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Amazon, Trucking Startup CargoX Team On Brazilian Logistics
Amazon, Trucking Startup CargoX Team On Brazilian Logistics
October 05, 2018  |  Amazon Delivery

Amazon is partnering with startup CargoX on a pilot program that will use bulletproof trucks for the delivery of expensive goods in Brazil. Bloomberg cited...

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Uber’s Ecosystem Ambitions, Plus Amazon Sizzles While Facebook Fizzles
Uber’s Ecosystem Ambitions, Plus Amazon Sizzles While Facebook Fizzles
September 07, 2018  |  Sizzle/Fizzle

Sizzle of the Week: Uber’s Ecosystem Ambitions Payments have always been central to the Uber customer’s experience. The magic of a better-than-a-taxi-ride ending and simply stepping...

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Brazil Economy Hobbled By High Banking Lending Rates
Brazil Economy Hobbled By High Banking Lending Rates
September 03, 2018  |  International

Brazil’s economy is being hobbled by average banking lending rates that are the highest of all the 55 developed and underdeveloped countries around the globe,...

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