Vivo (telecommunications) region Vivo owns the following brands: Vivo (telecommunications) Vivo (, Portuguese for "alive"), is a brand of Telefônica Brasil, the largest telecommunications company in Brazil. It is headquartered both in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The company was originally formed as part of Telebrás, the state-owned telecom monopoly at the time. In 1998, Telebrás was demerged and privatized. Telefónica bought Telesp, the São Paulo division, and rebranded it to Telefónica. On 15 April 2012, all Telefonica services were rebranded again to Vivo, using the same strategy of unifying all its services in a unique brand, like Movistar (Hispanic America
News World Communications News World Communications News World Communications Inc. is an international news media corporation. It was founded in New York City, in 1976, by Unification movement founder and leader Sun Myung Moon. Its first two newspapers, "The News World" (later renamed the "New York City Tribune") and the Spanish-language "Noticias del Mundo", were published in New York from 1976 until the early 1990s. In October 2009, Hyun Jin Moon took over as chairman. News World Communications currently owns United Press International, "GolfStyles (formerly "Washington Golf Monthly")", "Segye Ilbo" (South Korea), and "Sekai Nippo" (Japan). Formerly, it owned "The World and I",