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...Google argued otherwise, saying that because the information on Orkut is stored on U.S. servers, its Brazilian subsidiary has no access to it and thus cannot hand it over. The company asked prosecutors to withdraw the summons against Google Brasil and address new ones to parent company Google Inc. Only then, Google officials said, would the company hand over incriminating data, as it has done in more than 70 similar cases elsewhere in the world...
...World Cup since '94, Nike crashes the gate every time. In 1994, an unmarked van pulled up to the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Fla., before a match, recalls Jeffrey Bliss, chief marketing officer for World Cup '94. The driver dropped off about 150 free Nike caps--JUST DO IT, BRASIL, they read--which soon became one of the hottest items at the event. In France, Nike's "Tour de Foot" caravan brought free clinics to some 50,000 kids around the country, and the company set up a 70,000-sq.-ft. interactive "Nikepark" in northwest Paris. British Marketer...
...Friday night, 20 undergraduates from a Habitat for Humanity trip danced cha-cha on the dark floor of a club called Cafe Brasil. Some sipped out of plastic cups, listening to a man singing on stage. The act was Fredy Omar con su Banda, an eight-member crew with one main vocalist—Fredy Omar himself...
...produce Flex lines. In May sales of Flex vehicles overtook gasoline models for the first time. By August, Flex sales had risen 61.7%. "I am hard pressed to think of any other technology that has been such a success so quickly," says Barry Engle, president of Ford Brasil...
Carla Cico, 41, the Italian-born CEO of Brasil Telecom (BT), ran in her first New York City Marathon in November. So did seven other BT employees--products of Cico's new company-wide fitness program. "It promotes discipline, preparation, focus, team culture," Cico explains. "We want to avoid the mind-set of the '90s, when so many telecoms went only for short-term results...