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The official Portuguese name of the land, in original Portuguese records, was the "Land of the Holy Cross" (Terra da Santa Cruz), but European sailors and merchants commonly called it the "Land of Brazil" (Terra do Brasil) because of the brazilwood trade. The popular appellation eclipsed and eventually supplanted the official Portuguese name.
Yahoo! ( / ˈjɑːhuː /, styled yahoo! in its logo) [4] [5] is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon Communications .
BRICS is an intergovernmental organization comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates.Originally identified to highlight investment opportunities, the grouping evolved into a cohesive geopolitical bloc, with their governments meeting annually at formal summits and coordinating multilateral policies since 2009.
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As of 2023, Brazil ranked fifth in the world with 181.8 million internet users. [2] The country had an internet penetration rate of 86.6% as of January 2024. [3] In March 2024, Brazil ranked 27th in the Ookla Broadband Ranking (fixed broadband), with a median fixed broadband speed of 158.57 Mbit/s. [4] Also, as per December 2021, Brazil had 41 ...
He was a co-founder of the news site Brasil 247. [citation needed] One of his later books, Assassinato de Reputações, released on 11 December 2014, sold 120,000 copies in four months. In April 2014, Tognolli was hired by Yahoo! to write an investigative journalism blog.
The Constitution of Brazil, along with several constitutional amendments, establishes the requirements, powers, and responsibilities of the president, their term of office and the method of election. [3] Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the 39th and current president. He was sworn in on 1 January 2023.
The federative units of Brazil ( Portuguese: unidades federativas do Brasil) are subnational entities with a certain degree of autonomy (self-government, self-regulation, and self-collection) and endowed with their own government and constitution, which together form the Federative Republic of Brazil. There are 26 states ( estados) and one ...