Ingenious Med, an Atlanta health-care technology company, has raised $1.3 million in venture funding, according to a Securities & Exchange Commission filing. Ingenious Med’s software provides inpatient physicians and hospitals with information and tools to help manage their practices. The company, launched in 1999, has developed an Internet-based application that allows inpatient physicians to capture charges, transmit patient information and communicate digitally with peers and administrators. In...

Some routes become more significant over time. By luck or some other factor, important developments spring up on that route and lead to other new developments that make the whole enterprise a "hot corridor." Routes have a way of becoming famous. Think of Route 128 corridor in Boston, or the major routes in Silicon Valley — where they once grew orchids as their specialty — or even Rodeo Drive, the center of the universe for over-priced shopping. In our region, what routes stand the best chance...

Parmenter Realty Partners has chosen Cushman & Wakefield to lease The Lenox Building, the 20-story Buckhead tower. Parmenter bought the tower from Clarion Partners March 6 for $59.3 million, according to Fulton County records. For Parmenter, it was another value-add investment, this time taking a building that was about 75 percent occupied at that time and spending its capital on filling the remaining vacancy as the economy — and demand for office space — recovers. For Cushman & Wakefield,...

Brazil's vice president Michel Temer reports that negotiations have begun in Congress to draw up another Forest Code as it is expected that president Dilma Rousseff will veto parts or all of the bill that was passed in the Chamber of Deputies at the end of April.

Brazil's Map of Violence 2012, Traffic Accidents, a document from  Instituto Sangari, found that there has been an unpleasant consequence of the explosion in the sale of motorcycles in Brazil.

Pure air, a landscape surrounded by mountains, good food and the pleasant citizens of Minas justify a trip to Belo Horizonte. But the capital of Minas Gerais has more in store, much more to offer visitors. Among the pleasant surprises is Liberdade Square Cultural Circuit, in the Central region.

How much credit should Brazil's presidents get for its remarkable progress since the return to democracy in 1985? Elections have been conducted smoothly, the economy has grown, poverty and inequality have declined and social indicators are improving. Did Brazil succeed because of its presidents or in spite of them? Or because of some and in spite of others?

A narrow strip of sand that seems like it may be submersed any second, marks the meeting between Baía de Camamu's (Camamu Bay) peaceful waters and the stronger waves of the Atlantic Ocean. A framework of wood and straw beams is the only sign of human occupation at Coroa Vermelha (Portuguese for Red Crown), as the bay's locals dubbed this sand strip.

By Ségolène Poirier, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Less than a month before the opening of the official Rio+20, hotel rates for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development will be reduced from 25 percent to sixty percent, according to the Brazilian government. The high prices have been heavily criticized by members of the [...]

By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Special divisions of Rio de Janeiro’s Polícia Militar (Military Police, PM) have seized arms and drugs, as well as making over fifty arrests, in the second day of a major operation aimed at drug trafficking and the vehicle theft in a number of districts [...]

By Robbie Blakeley, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Vasco were left lamenting poor refereeing after a 0-0 draw with Corinthians in the first leg of their Copa Libertadores quarter-final tie last night at São Januário Stadium. The Cariocas had a perfectly good goal chalked off in the second half, which would have [...]

By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil’s political leaders are divided on President Dilma Rousseff’s new stance on how states share oil royalties. Last week her comments, which favored oil-producing states and warned against reneging on contracts that had already been signed, received a hostile reception from nearly 4,000 mayors gathered [...]

By Stephen Eisenhammer, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The 22nd Police Pacification Unit (UPP) has been inaugurated for the favela communities of Adeus and Baiana, which neighbor Complexo do Alemão in Rio de Janeiro’s Zona Norte (North Zone), where pacification forces have struggled to curtail drug trafficking and violence. The inauguration was led [...]