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6 in 7 Brazilian Internet Users Watched Online Video in July

By Guest PostAugust 27, 2010Technologyalex banks, brazil, brazilians, globo, Google, latin america, online video, sites, world cup

*According to comScore, Brazilians Viewed a Total of 3.3 Billion Online Videos Driven in Part by Interest in World Cup Coverage*

Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 27, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study on online video consumption in Brazil. The study found that in July 2010 more than 35 million Brazilians watched online video, representing approximately 85 percent of the total online population. The study, which tracked the video viewing behavior of Brazilians during the months of the World Cup, reported that Brazilians watched a total of 6.7 billion videos during June and July combined.

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Facebook Captures Top Spot among Social Networking Sites in India

By Guest PostAugust 25, 20104 commentsTechnologyasia-pacific, bharatstudent.com, brazil, Comscore, facebook.com, Germany, India, region, russian federation, sites, Social networking, will hodgman, yahoo! pulse, yahoo!bbuzz

*Indian Social Networking Audience Soars 43 Percent in Past Year*

Mumbai, India, August 25, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a report on traffic to Social Networking sites in India, revealing that Facebook.com grabbed the number one ranking in the category for the first time in July with 20.9 million visitors, up 179 percent versus year ago.

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Indonesia, Brazil and Venezuela Lead Global Surge in Twitter Usage

By Guest PostAugust 12, 20108 commentsTechnologybrazil, Comscore, graham mudd, growth, Hugo Chavez, indonesia, tweetdeck, Twitter, twitter usage, Venezuela

*Global Audience to Twitter.com Doubles in Past Year, as Latin American Audience Grows Fourfold*

Reston, VA – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, on Aug 11. released a report on Twitter.com growth worldwide. The study found that in June, nearly 93 million Internet users visited Twitter.com, an increase of 109 percent from the previous year, as the social networking site achieved strong gains across all global regions. Indonesia reported the highest penetration, with 20.8 percent of Internet users in the country visiting Twitter.com that month, followed by Brazil and Venezuela, with Venezuela’s growth fueled in large part by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s decision to join Twitter in late April.

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Breast Transplantation, the Consequences

By ShamsJuly 15, 2010Healthbiggest breasts, brazil, breast transplantation, health problems, sheyla hershey, texas

Sheyla Hershey, the woman with the biggest breasts (breast transplantation operation – 30 times), is now encountering serious health problems. Sheyla now living in Texas, originally comes from Brazil.

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Technological Advances and the Dangers of Nuclear Energy

By PravdaJuly 11, 20101 commentEnvironment, Science1986, air france af 477, airbus 330-200, april 20, april 26, bp, brazil, british petroleum, Chernobyl, deepwater horizon oil exploration, eastern europe, environmental disasters, gulf of mexico, hector scalambrini costa, hiroshima bomb, human activities, nuclear power, nuclear waste, radioactivity, Scandinavia, soviet union, thyroid cancer, uk, zero risk

The successive and increasingly frequent occurrences of environmental disasters caused by human activities deserves our utmost attention. Leading us to necessarily suspect that we should have credible and foolproof trials before accepting assertions regarding existing technologies.

The most striking example is the disaster caused by the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil exploration platform by British Petroleum (BP) which happened last April 20, and which day after day has reached catastrophic proportions.

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Internet Users Age 6-14 in Brazil Spend 60 Percent of their Online Time on Entertainment and Communication Sites

By Guest PostJuly 9, 20102 commentsCulture, Technologyalex banks, brazil, Comscore, digital world, Entertainment, instant messengers, latin america, online population, Social networking

Sao Paulo, Brazil – comScore, Inc. a leader in measuring the digital world, released (June 30) a study of online behavior among 6-14 year-old consumers in Brazil, a recent addition to comScore’s demographic segmentation capabilities in the market.

The study found that Internet users 6-14 years of age accounted for 12 percent of the total online population in Brazil in May 2010, spending the majority of their time on Entertainment, Instant Messengers and Social Networking sites.

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Goooal! World Cup of Tech Competitors Score in Warsaw

By Guest PostJuly 6, 20104 commentsTechnologybrazil, christian piechnick, daniella bal, dice, England, germany-argentina, Holland, ignatius lopez, imagine cup, it, jasper baljeu, Johannesburg, jon perera, kieron ekron, malissa, malta, olympics, poland, royal bafokeng stadium, simulacrum, South Africa, stefan lia, vuvuzela, warsaw, wearth, world cup, world cup of technology

*As their favorite soccer teams battle to win the World Cup in South Africa, students from across the globe are in Warsaw, Poland, to find out who will win the World Cup of technology.*

WARSAW, Poland – July 6, 2010 – Just weeks after catching a World Cup soccer game in their home country, two students from South Africa brought 40,000 football fans with them to Warsaw, Poland, for the “World Cup of technology.”

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Holland 2 Brazil 1

By PravdaJuly 3, 2010Sportsbrazil, dutch, felipe melo, ghana, Holland, juan, júlio césar, kaka, luis fabiano, nelson mandela bay, Netherlands, robinho, sneijder, stekelenburg, timothy bancroft-hinchey, uruguay, world cup

You lose a lot due to stupidity, but when it comes to an accumulation of collective idiocy, we reach a critical mass and exponential results which we saw in Nelson Mandela Bay, where Brazil left the World Cup very early (for a 5-times-champion) simply because its players once again were convinced the game was in the bag.

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