PC Pirates Killed Computer Market in Brazil

It didn’t take too long. Brazil has surpassed China as the champion of pirated computers. While the Chinese were able to bring down from 85% to 73% percent the number of illegal machines in their market, in Brazil the so-called cloned computers should represent 74% of all machines sold in the country by the end of the year.

Tags:

You May Also Like

Panamí¡ Gets Brazil’s Top of the Line Jet

Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer delivered today the first of 12 Embraer 190 Advanced Range ...

Brazil Cuts Key Interest Rate by 1%. Workers Wanted 2 %

The Brazilian Central Bank (BC) reduced its benchmark SELIC interest rate a full point ...

The Brazilian Formula for Success: Dictatorship

The Brazilian formula for success includes periods of dictatorship, and Brazil had three periods ...

Brazil Brings to Miami Coffee, Cachaça and All Kinds of Food to Sell the World

On Monday, February 6, the Brazilian Export Promotion Agency (APEX-Brasil) made a presentation to ...

In Brazil Car Sales Decline 10% While Anti-China Feeling Grows

Following September’s fall, which affected all of the Brazilian industry production, car sales in ...

LETTERS

Some have dismissed his initiative as just "the paranoia of the Brazilian left-wingers", but ...

Death Squad Spreads Terror in Rio Killing 30 in the Streets

Rio’s Secretariat of Public Safety Public is investigating the massacre of at least 30 ...

August 1995 Cover Story

Brazilian teenagers and Brazil’s generation X are not different from their counterpart in the ...

A soccer fan roots for Brazil in Lebanon

A Lebanon That Speaks Portuguese and Eats Brazil’s Feijoada

It was about six in the afternoon at the home of Lebanese Mohamed Mustafa ...

Brazil’s Computer for All Program Has Already Lent US$ 16 Million

To promote digital inclusion by facilitating computer purchases and reducing the price tag, the ...