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Brazil court lifts suspension of Facebook’s WhatsApp service

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By Jeb Blount and Marcelo Teixeira RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A Brazilian judge on Thursday ordered the lifting of a 48-hour suspension of the services in Brazil of Facebook Inc's WhatsApp phone-messaging application, overturning an order from a lower court. The interruption of WhatsApp's text message and Internet telephone service caused outrage in Latin America's largest country, where the company estimates it has 100 million personal users, and led to angry exchanges on the floor of Congress

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Omnicom to buy Brazil advertising group ABC, source says

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By Tatiana Bautzer and Guillermo Parra-Bernal SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Omnicom Group Inc, the world’s second largest advertising company, has agreed to pay 1 billion reais ($270 million) for Brazil’s Grupo ABC, growing Omnicom’s publicity, branding services and content in Latin America’s largest economy, a source with direct knowledge of the transaction said on Friday.

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McDonald’s grilled over labor, tax practices at Brazil hearing

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McDonald's Corp , the world's biggest fast-food chain, was accused of mistreating its employees and dodging taxes on Thursday during a Senate hearing in Brazil, where politicians, union leaders and workers from five continents voiced allegations. McDonald's has come under increasing scrutiny worldwide for allegations of labor abuses, health and safety violations, plus tax evasion in Europe, and Brazilian Senator Pablo Paim called a hearing to allow both sides to make their cases.

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Despite protests, slog more likely than radical change in Brazil

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By Paulo Prada RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Despite protests by hundreds of thousands of Brazilians against President Dilma Rousseff and ongoing calls for her impeachment, little suggests radical change in Brazil anytime soon. With the country hobbled by legislative gridlock, a lack of viable alternatives to the established political parties and an economic reversal so complete that its currency is trading at a 12-year trough, there are no easy or fast fixes

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South African, Norwegian e-commerce rivals bury hatchet in Brazil battle

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By David Dolan and Balazs Koranyi JOHANNESBURG/OSLO (Reuters) – Two of the fiercest rivals in online classifieds, South Africa’s Naspers and Norway’s Schibsted, said they would team up in some emerging markets, including fast-growing Brazil where they have battled each other for years.