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The Excegen Genética (MG) considers a new method of productivity increase in the bovine culture that will be able to represent an annual profit in the order of 150 thousand tons of meat for the Country. The basic way to change the genetic flock constitution, is being promoted by its improvement on the election of animals that will be the parents of the next generation. The genetic merit evaluation of the animals is being held by analysing the external appearance, the individual performance, or mixing models have been used to direct crossings.

These systems are capable of errors on the interpretation and probability, having consequence on the loss of efficiency of the process. The advance on the genetics became possible to pursuit beyond the appearances and searching in the DNA of the animals the necessary information. This new technology calls Election Attended Markers (SAMPlus®). The election of more productive bovines, attended for molecular markers, is an emergent technology, in Brazil and in the world. The Excegen is distinguished as pioneer in this field.

* Adress: Av. José Cândido da Silveira, 2.100 sala 13 - Horto CEP: 31.170-000 Belo Horizonte Tel.: (31) 3486.1733 Fax: (31) 3486.1619 E-mail: excegen@biominas.com.br

Kero-Coco coconut water is filtered and sterilized*. Its natural composition with low calories maintains all nutrients of the purest coconut water. Not being a product derived from wheat, it does not contain gluten, and not being a product of animal origin, does not contain cholesterol.

Kero-Coco is the ideal drink to quench the thirst and to recover the body hydration in all situations of energy loss.

It is packed in modern, practical, aseptic and recyclable Tetra-Pak packages, that maintain the product up to 8 months, without refrigeration.

Kero-Coco is also exported to several countries of Latin America, USA, Europe, Africa, Caribbean region and Asia, that may now enjoy its nice flavor

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The American site Google bought the Brazilian Akwan Information Technologies, specialized in websearch technology. The company will become the Google's Research and Development Center in Latin America. The value of the transaction was not disclosed. Owner of the search site todobr.com.br, Akwan was created by a group of professors of the Federal University of Minas Gerais. With the acquisition, the Akwan website is already being directed for Google brazilian domain.

Google informs that the purchase of the Brazilian company increases its efforts of engineering and conscription in all Latin America. The new regional center of R&D will be sixth of the American site, that today has units of research in Tokyo (Japan), Zurich (Switzerland), Bangalore (India) and New York and Mountain View (U.S.A.). Google intends to contract new talents in Brazil and other countries of Latin America for the new center of research.

Vacants for the company are opened in the site www.google.com.br/jobs

* Akwan Information Technologies is a Brazilian company of solutions in information technology. Hosted in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, was founded by Professor Nivio Ziviani. Ziviani is Ph.D. in Computer science for the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is Titular Professor of the UFMG Department of Computer Science, where he co-ordinates the Laboratory for Information Treatment (LATIN). He is co-founder of the Miner Technology Group, that was sold for the Group Folha/UOL in June of 1999, and Akwan Information Technologies, sold for Google Incorporation in July of 2005.

The Brazilian Development Bank - BNDES is a federal public company that is associated to the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, which has as an objective to long term financing of endeavors that contribute towards the development of the country.

This financing activity results in the Brazilian economy's improved competitiveness and in the increased quality of life of its population.

It also seeks to strengthen the capital structure of private companies and the development of the capital markets, the trade of machines and equipment and the financing of exports.

Since its establishment, in June 20, 1952, the BNDES has financed large industrial and infrastructure endeavors, having a significant position in the support to investments in agriculture, commerce and service and in micro, small and medium enterprises.

Another highlight is the support to social investments aimed at education and health, family agriculture, basic sanitation and collective mass transport. The BNDES considers it to be of fundamental importance, in the execution of its credit policy, taking into account ethical-environmental principles and is committed to the principles of sustainable development.

The financial support lines and the BNDES programs serve the needs of investments of companies of any size and sector, established in the country. The partnership with financial institutions, with agencies established around the country, allows the dissemination of credit, enabling greater access to the BNDES's resources.

Over the next 50 years, Brazil, Russia, India and China - the BRIC´s economies - could become a much larger force in the world economy.. If things go right, in less than 40 years, the BRIC´s economies together could be larger than de G6 in US dollar terms. By 2005 they could account for over half the size of the G6. Of the current G6, only the US and Japan may be among the six largest economies in US dollar terms in 2050. (The Economist, Jan. 30, 2005) by Dominic Wilson, Roopa Purushothaman, Goldman Sachs Global Economics Paper No.99, October 2003.