Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges

I cover construction, mining, Brazilian mines, oil, and major railway and civil engineering projects. I also write daily about interesting facts and insights from the Brazilian market.

Fiserv, the world’s largest payment processor, has just inaugurated its first factory outside Asia in Brazil. The unit in Betim (MG) will produce 100,000 Clover payment terminals per year and is part of a US$100 million investment that includes technology and expansion until 2027.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 06/05/2026 at 21:00

Fiserv, the world’s largest payment processor, has just opened its first factory outside Asia in Brazil. The unit in Betim (MG) will produce 100,000 Clover payment terminals per year and is part of a US$100 million investment that includes technology and expansion until 2027.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 06/05/2026 at 20:59

Interesting facts

Instagram and Facebook will use artificial intelligence to analyze users’ bone structure and height in photos and videos to find out who is under 13 years old in Brazil. Meta says the system does not perform facial recognition but can automatically deactivate accounts if it detects the owner is underage.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 06/05/2026 at 15:14

WEG created a battery storage system that is transforming an old mine in Finland into a renewable energy hub. The project is one of the first hybrids in the Nordic country to combine solar generation with storage and helps stabilize the national electricity grid.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 06/05/2026 at 15:12

The most expensive stadium on the planet cost R$ 30 billion to be built in Los Angeles and will host eight games of the 2026 World Cup. The 110-meter screen is larger than the playing field itself, and the roof projects videos that airplane passengers see during landing at the airport.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 06/05/2026 at 15:10

The vertical neighborhood with 656 apartments starting from R$ 234,000, which is being built in Blumenau, is expected to be ready in three years. MRV’s mega-condominium occupies a 70,000-square-meter plot in Velha Grande and qualifies for band 2 of Minha Casa Minha Vida.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 06/05/2026 at 15:08

The Batista brothers, who built the largest meatpacker on the planet with JBS, also command a little-known branch on the coast of Santa Catarina. Wesley and Joesley operate the activities of the Itajaí port complex through a company that moves millions of tons and almost no one associates with their surname.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 06/05/2026 at 15:04

Science and Technology

Xiaomi has just launched a robot vacuum cleaner so powerful that it has retractable arms capable of extending beyond its own body to clean baseboards and corners where no other model can reach. The base washes and dries the mops by itself, and the tank stores dirt for 75 days.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 06/05/2026 at 14:57

Brazil has just hosted for the first time the continent’s largest military disaster cooperation exercise, with 20 American countries simulating a response to drought in the Amazon and fires in the Pantanal.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 06/05/2026 at 14:55

Science and Technology

Foxconn, the Taiwanese giant that manufactures iPhones worldwide, wants to transform Jundiaí into an electric car hub for Latin America, using the same contract manufacturing model that revolutionized the mobile phone industry and now promises to enable any company to sell electric vehicles without needing its own factory.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 06/05/2026 at 11:56

Shopee opened three distribution centers at once in Vitória, Curitiba, and Fortaleza with the capacity to process 700,000 orders per day, generated 900 jobs, and now totals 22 centers in Brazil with 200 logistics hubs and 45,000 partner drivers in a race against Mercado Livre and Amazon.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 05/05/2026 at 23:26

TIM closed a partnership with PicPay to distribute financial products to its 61 million customers without investing a single cent in equity. The focus is credit, and the move marks the operator’s return to the financial sector after receiving R$ 520 million to exit C6 Bank.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 05/05/2026 at 23:24