Cosmo On-Line is a generic and news Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 portal

Web portal

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 operated by media

Mass media

Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles...

 holding company Rede Anhanguera de Comunicação

Rede Anhangüera de Comunicação

Rede Anhangüera de Comunicação is an important private holding companies of mass media in the São Paulo state...

 (RAC), located in Campinas

Campinas

Campinas is a city and municipality located in the coastal interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. is the administrative center of the meso-region of the same name, with 3,783,597 inhabitants as of the 2010 Census, consisting of 49 cities....

, state of São Paulo

São Paulo

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, Brazil

Brazil

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. It is the largest portal of the region and one of the first to be founded (1996) juat after commercial access to the Internet became available in the country. The portal hosts the websites for the flagship publications of RAC, such as newspaper

Newspaper

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s Correio Popular

Correio Popular

Correio Popular is the largest daily newspaper in the city of Campinas, state of São Paulo, Brazil. It was founded on September 4, 1927 by Álvaro Ribeiro...

, Diário do Povo

Diário do Povo (Campinas)

Diário do Povo is a newspaper published in the city of Campinas, state of São Paulo, Brazil.Correio Popular is owned and managed by a larger communications holding company, Rede Anhangüera de Comunicação, which operates a news agency , a printing facility , a polls company and owns also several...

, Notícia Já

Notícia Já

Notícia Já is a popular daily newspaper in the city of Campinas, state of São Paulo, Brazil. It was founded in 2007, and has a tabloid format.Currently it has an audited circulation of 60,000...

 and Metrópole

Metropole

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 Magazine.

Cosmo was also an Internet Service Provider

Internet service provider

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 of significance in Campinas, for a while. The operation was sold by RAC to an international company, which later went into bankruptcy

Bankruptcy

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