Telefonica | March 31, 2011 | Press Release
• Telefónica to launch the first NFC “real” experience in Europe • The project is being carried out with the assistance of Autogrill, Bankinter, BBVA, G&D, La Caixa, Oberthur, Samsung, Sermepa and Visa • The number of...
American Tower | March 21, 2011 | Press Release
BOSTON, Mar 21, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
American Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT)today released information about its business in light of AT&T's contemplated acquisition of ...
TechFaith | March 31, 2011 | Press Release
BEIJING, March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- China TechFaith Wireless Communication Technology Limited (Nasdaq: CNTF) ("TechFaith" or the "Company") today announced it will expand shipments of its proprietary motion gaming mobile phone into Latin...
Capital.gr | March 31, 2011 | Diana Kinch
RIO DE JANEIRO -(Dow Jones)- Spanish telecoms company Telefonica SA (TEF, TEF.MC) said it has canceled its Brazilian Depositary Receipts, or BDRs, program.
Telefonica has also canceled its registration with Brazil's securities commission CVM as a share-issuing foreign company...
DailyMotion | March 31, 2011 | Press Release
Paris/Sao Paolo, March 31st – Dailymotion, one of the largest video site in the world, and Abril Midia, the leading media firm in Brazil announce an exclusive partnership in the brazilian market.
Abril.com the internet division of the media group will...
Bloomberg | March 29, 2011 | Crayton Harrison and Anabela Reis
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA (PTC) bought 25.3 percent of Brazilian carrier Telemar Norte Leste SA (TMAR5) for 8.32 billion reais ($5 billion), getting a bigger stake than Portugal’s largest phone company had originally planned to buy.
The stake...
February 23 2011 - 1:22 pm ET | Tracy Ford | RCR Wireless News
American Tower Corp. (AMT) posted strong fourth-quarter and full-year financial results, noting double-digital growth in both Q4 and full-year revenue and income. Going forward the company expects to earn between...
Business News Americas | March 29, 2011 | Patrick Nixon
Latin America is seeing explosive growth in its online population with social networks championing other communication mediums, while in the areas of video usage and online banking, the region still has a lot of room...
Gilat | March 28, 2011 | Press Release
Gilat today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Gilat to Home Peru S.A., has been awarded a new contract by Peru's Agency for Promotion of Private Investment (ProInversion) to provide Internet access and telephony services throughout the...
Living in Peru | March 28, 2011
According to a new technical study done by Peru’s nacional statistics agency, “Information and Communication Technology in Homes, October-December 2010,” 27.1 percent of the country’s homes have cable television service, representing a 2.3 percentage point increase since 2009.
By...
Business Week | March 28, 2011 | AP
Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Mexican unit said Monday that it signed a $100 million technology outsourcing services contract with Coca-Cola FEMSA, the Coke bottler in Mexico.
The five-year agreement will support Coca-Cola FEMSA's Latin American business. Hewlett-Packard Mexico S. de...
Acision | March 30, 2011 | Press Release
Reading, United Kingdom, 03/30/2011 - Acision announced the launch of its seventh edition of MAVAM – The Acision Mobile VAS Monitor – which reveals a significant increase in Brazilian wireless operator revenues driven by messaging and other mobile...
Telefonica | March 28, 2011 | Press Release
Telefonica and Microsoft Bring BlueVia to .NET Framework Developers Alliance extends BlueVia’s reach, providing Microsoft’s 6 million-strong .NET Framework developer community with easy access to Telefonica’s network capabilities for the creation of new communications-enabled applications.
LONDON — 28 March, 2011 —...
GlobeNet | March 24, 2011 | Press Release
Delivering the Lowest Latency International Capacity Between the Americas
BOCA RATON, FL--(Marketwire - March 24, 2011) - GlobeNet, an international wholesale provider of submarine capacity, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Oi (BOVESPA: TNLP3) (BOVESPA: TNLP4) (BOVESPA: TMAR3)...
ComunIP | March 25, 2011 | Press Blog
After almost three months of negotiations, Takenet announced the acquisition of ComunIP. Takenet is a pioneer in Value Added Services market in Brazil, which provides integration services, content delivery, creation and management of mobile portals and mobile...
Bloomberg | March 26, 2011 | Manuel Baigorri
Telefonica SA (TEF) said the boards of Telecomunicacoes de Sao Paulo SA (TLPP3), its fixed-line unit in Brazil known as Telesp, and Vivo Participacoes SA (VIVO4), the country’s biggest wireless company, agreed that all of Vivo shares will be...
TeleGeography | March 28, 2011
Mexican telecoms group America Movil (AM) has decided to rebrand fixed broadband unit Telmex Ecuador under the Claro moniker used across AM’s Latin American operations, reports Telecompaper. The decision follows Telmex Ecuador’s sister cellco Conecel dropping its well-established Porta brand...
TeleGeography | March 25, 2011
Brazil’s antitrust regulator Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Economica (Administrative Council for Economic Defense, or Cade) approved on Wednesday, without limitation, Vivendi’s acquisition of GVT Holding, controller of local telco Global Village Telecom (GVT). The French telecoms and entertainment group originally...
Business News Americas | March 25, 2011 | Matthew Malinowski
A need to understand market particularities make Ecuador the most likely country for a new SAP(NYSE: SAP) subsidiary, the company's sales vice president for Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Peru and Venezuela, Leonel Graff, told BNamericas.
SAP currently maintains...
The Financial | March 22, 2011
The FINANCIAL -- Opera Software announced on March 22 that the Opera Mini browser is now available on a second Android device offered exclusively by Nextel Brazil, the Motorola i886.
NII Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:NIHD), one of the leading providers of...
Fox News | March 24, 2011
Anyone who’s ever used an English-language laptop to type in Spanish knows it can be a big drag. Clicking the ALT key for accents, hunting down punctuation, figuring out how to regain your ‘at’ symbol—it can be enough to...
Fox News | March 24, 2011
Brasilia – Spanish telecom giant Telefonica plans to invest 24.3 billion reais (some $14.7 billion) in Brazil between 2011 and 2014, CEO Cesar Alierta told Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.
That amount represents a 52 percent increase over the previous four...
BNAmericas | March 24, 2011 | Matthew Malinowski
Brazil's federal government could focus on generating favorable import-export tax conditions and boosting financing to effectively drive local IT production, ICT consultancy Gartner vice president Donald Feinberg told BNamericas.
This week, the country's government announced plans to spur...
