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Brazil Tech

Sep 1, 2026

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6 min read

🛰️ No longer the last resort

Elon Musk's satellite service now sells more connections in São Paulo than in the Amazon.

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Brazil Tech

Aug 25, 2026

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6 min read

🔒 From pocket change to a real fine

A new penalty against ByteDance dwarfs everything Brazil's data protection authority had ever collected before.

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Brazil Tech

Aug 18, 2026

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6 min read

😴 Brazil tells crypto to sleep on it

A new Central Bank rule will require large transfers to be parked for 24 hours before they leave the country. The market it slows is mostly stablecoins, mostly Tether, and mostly bought inside bank apps.

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Brazil Tech

Aug 11, 2026

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6 min read

💾 Data center crunch

Inventory has grown sixfold since 2012 and could double again by 2030. Whether it does depends less on cheap land than on delivering firm power to a developer's schedule.

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Brazil Tech

Aug 4, 2026

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5 min read

☁️ Cloudy terms

A no-bid deal turned Paraná's IT company into a Google reseller. Investigators are now looking at the arrangement

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Brazil Tech

Jul 28, 2026

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5 min read

🔐 All bark, no budget

The LGPD gave Brazil a European-grade privacy regime and almost none of the enforcement to go with it.

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Brazil Tech

Jul 21, 2026

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6 min read

🚁 Quiet, please

Eve, Embraer's eVTOL subsidiary, reaches an important milestone: certification of the noise its aircraft produce.

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Brazil Tech

Jul 14, 2026

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7 min read

⏪ Copying Europe's past

A bill headed for a House vote before the recess would turn CADE, Brazil's antitrust authority, into a permanent regulator of digital markets.

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