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Oct 14, 2011

LATIN AMERICA News, Oct 14, 2011

Latin America: One of the world's most dynamic media markets
MiamiHerald.com
From 2006 to 2010, he said, 12 percent of honors at the Cannes International Film Festival went to Latin American films. In the five years before that only 2 percent of awards went to Latin movies. He also pointed out that Latins have garnered 42 Oscar...
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The Battle For Brazil's Game Future
Gamasutra
by Arthur Protasio [Business] [IGDA Rio de Janeiro head Arthur Protasio writes about the current perception of games in the South Americancountry, talking about cultural and economic challenges that keep games from being recognized as a vital medium ...
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Gamasutra

Brazilians warm up to OTT 3D VOD
Rapid tv news
Explore 3D, the 3D video content app that Samsung has been installing in its latestgeneration of connected TVs, has been used in Brazil more than in any other Latin American country. Although it was officially announced in May, the app has actually ...
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BlackBerrys buzz back to life after long outage
BusinessWeek
BlackBerrys in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa had been without email or chat messages since Monday. In the US and Canada, the outage was shorter, starting Wednesday. But many, perhaps most, of the world's 70 million BlackBerry users were...
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Breaking: New Regulations may Affect Panregional Cable Buys
Portada Magazine
Over the past month several decisions have taken place in Brazil and Mexico which may have a significant impact on panregional cable advertising (understood as cable buys targeting Latin American audiences by agencies and advertisers based in the US, ...
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Justin Bieber Going 'Under the Mistletoe' on MTV on Oct. 18
Suite101.com
It was first played live in a concert on his current South American leg of his ongoing 'My World' tour, in Rio Di Janeiro, Brazil on the 6th of October. Bieber's manager Scooter Braun clearly has been working overtime lining up prominent artists to ...
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If camera traps don't prove existence of Bigfoot or Yeti nothing will
Mongabay.com
There have been new primates discovered in recent decades, including new monkey species from Africa, Southeast Asia, and South America. But these are small monkeys, not apes, usually living in still under-explored regions such as the Amazon. ...
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Mongabay.com

Referee Week: Baharmast left legacy for US officials
Major League Soccer
But had they done their homework, they would have seen that I had refereed in Copa América, the World Cup qualifier games in Asia, big rivalries like Japan and Korea, matches in South and Central America. Had they done their homework, they would have ...
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Major League Soccer

Hurting at Home, US Ranchers Find Markets in Russia for Their Beef, on the Hoof
New York Times
American cowboys export breeding bulls when they are about 12 months old. A good stud bull can have a five- or six-year career, said Mr. Stevenson, whose Montana ranch holds auctions twice a year, streaming live video of the calves on the Internet. ...
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New York Times

Boo! Scare Up Some Fun with Casper the Friendly Ghost® and Mindshapes
Gamasutra
... animated television series that made its global debut in 2009 and airs around the world on major broadcast networks, including Cartoon Network (US, Europe, Asia andLatin America), TF1 (France), ZDF (Germany), YTV (Canada), and TV Globo (Brazil)....
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Hillary Clinton to lay out her “doctrine on economic statecraft” in New York ...
Yahoo! News Blogs (blog)
The message is especially timely, the source added, when "you've got economic realities driving so much of the foreign policy headlines"--from the Eurozone debt crisis, to the Free Trade Agreements with SouthKorea, Colombia and Panama passed by ...
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Infonetics Research: Enterprise videoconferencing and telepresence equipment a ...
Techzone360
SALES Larry Howard, Vice President, Western North America, Asia, Latin America: larry@infonetics.com, +1-408-583-3335 Scott Coyne, Senior Account Director, Eastern North America, Texas, Midwest: scott@infonetics.com, +1-408-583-3395 George ...
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