Government cancels investment contract with JP Sá Couto

According to the order published today in Diário da República, the Government terminated the investment contract signed in March 2011, between AICEP (Agency for Investment and External Commerce of Portugal) and JP Sá Couto, for lack of compliance deadlines for the construction of a factory of computers and other products. According to Jornal de Negócios, the project in Matosinhos, worth 10.9 million euros, would create 200 jobs and achieve a sales figure of 3,281 million euros in 2016. Once Read more [...]
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JP Sá Couto negotiates sale of Magalhães laptops to Peru

According to the news portal Tek Sapo, the company that produces the Magalhães computer is in negotiations with the Peruvian government to sell 40 thousand laptops, said yesterday the director João Paulo Sá Couto to Lusa Agency. According to the news, the contract should be established in partnership with the Ministry of Education of Peru and a Peruvian company, and will yield the company nearly 10 million. Source: Tek Sapo Read more [...]
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Chavez is preparing to export Canaima laptops

According to Diário Digital, the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, said that he is preparing agreements to start exporting to several countries, the computers Canaima (local name for laptop Magalhães). The announcement was made this Saturday at the Miraflores presidential palace, leaving a meeting with a delegation from Russia to discuss "issues related to military-technical cooperation," says the report. Source: Diário Digital Read more [...]
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Nuno Crato named the sundial “a Magalhães of the past”

In a visit to the School André de Gouveia, in Évora, the current Minister of Education and Science, Nuno Crato, helped the students to build a manufactured sundial which he called "a Magalhães of the past". According to Correio da Manhã, the minister has said that the sundial "is cheap" and that it just require the "tiles, a bit of chalk, cement and time". Quoting the newspaper, in a lesson to the students about the shadow projection, Crato has used irony Read more [...]
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61 thousand more Magalhães laptops in schools of Uruguay

For the third consecutive time, the company thta produces Magalhães laptops, JP Sá Couto, won a competition in Uruguay for the distribution of 61 thousand computers in schools of that country. According to the newspaper SOL, the contest launched by the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay is part of the Ceibal Plan, "a government initiative aimed at promoting access to new technologies in schools". So far JP Sá Couto has distributed more than 120 Read more [...]
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