YellowPepper | March 16, 2011 | Press Release
March 16th, 2011 – MIAMI, FLORIDA – Leaders of the global and regional mobile money transfer industry will be convening in Sao Paulo, Brazil for a high level conference on developing this social and economic game-changing opportunity....
YellowPepper | March 16, 2011 | Press Release
March 16th, 2011 – MIAMI, FLORIDA – Leaders of the global and regional mobile money transfer industry will be convening in Sao Paulo, Brazil for a high level conference on developing this social and economic game-changing opportunity....
Business News Americas | March 16, 2011 | Patrick Nixon
Improved security elements of Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) web browser were a key contributing factor to the high level of downloads of the beta version in Latin America, Iñigo Asiain, Internet Explorer...
America Movil | March 15, 2011 | Press Release
Mexico City, Mexico, March 15, 2011 -- América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. (“AMX”)
(BMV: AMX; NYSE: AMX; Nasdaq: AMOV; LATIBEX: XAMXL) announced that in
today’s meeting, its Board of Directors decided to submit to the Ordinary and
Extraordinary General...
AppTech Corp | March 14, 2011 | Press Release
THE WOODLANDS, Texas, March 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AppTech Corp (Pink Sheets: APCX) is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Oronoco Telecom has entered into a Joint Venture with Conmudata of...
SES World Skies | March 15, 2011 | Press Release
SES WORLD SKIES, a division of SES S.A. (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), today announced a new capacity deal with Axesat aimed at meeting escalating ...
Arianespace | March 15, 2011 | Press Release
ARSAT has once again selected Arianespace for its commercial launch services - this time to orbit the Argentinean satellite operator's second satellite, Arsat-2.
Participating in this week's Satellite 2011 conference in Washington, D.C., Arianespace today announced that it...
Caribbean 360 | March 14, 2011
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Monday March 14, 2011 – Digicel is buying out the operations of one of its rivals in Jamaica, while selling two of its businesses to that same competitor.
It has signed an agreement with América Móvil to acquire...
Business Week | March 11, 2011 | Associated Press
Mexican telecom company American Movil plans to acquire a cell phone company's operations in Honduras and El Salvador.
Latin America's largest phone service provider says it has reached a deal to buy 100 percent of Jamaica-based Digicel's...
Advantech Wireless | March 14, 2011 | Press Release
Advantech Wireless, a Canadian-based manufacturer of Satellite, RF and Microwave systems has concluded major sales in Brazil and Mexico for its Satellite Communications product line. Products include AMT 75 Modems and redundant switches, SCPC and DVB-RCS...
Fundamentals | March 14, 2011 | Stephanie Baxter
Martinez is now responsible for the Radianz platform and BT’s secure messaging services
First joined BT in 1999; worked with transport companies and utilities
Martinez was BT’s sales and strategy director for Spain and Latin America
Previously head of operations...
Business News Americas | March 14, 2011 | Juan Pedro Tomás
The Latin American and Caribbean (CALA) region is forecast to add some 52mn new subscriptions in the 3GPP technologies (GSM-HSPA) segment, 4G Americas director for the region, Erasmo Rojas, told BNamericas.
According to Rojas, the...
Tech Digest | March 10, 2011 | ShinyJess
Together Intel the chipmaker and Lenovo the PC maker will deploy 158,000 laptops to students in Argentina. What started out as a reference design for affordable laptops for the developing world from Intel, will now be given a proper launch with Lenovo...
Business News Americas | March 10, 2011 | Juan Pedro Tomás
The possible sale of Colombia telecoms operatorETB is very unlikely to happen this year, Yankee Group principal analyst for Latin America, Wally Swain, told BNamericas.
According to local press reports, the company's shareholders may decide to...
Telefonica | March 10, 2011 | Press Release
Fujitsu and Telefónica sign a Master Service Agreement for the provision and management of mobile services (voice and data) across 15 countries in Europe.
30,000 connections managed through Telefónica’s Central Services worth more than €30m over the contract period (4 years...
Wall Street Journal | March 10, 2011 | Jose De Cordoba
MEXICO CITY–Three powerful billionaires, lambasting one another as "monopolists" and "duopolists," filed complaints against each other Wednesday, ratcheting up a battle over Mexico's $35 billion telecommunication and broadcast markets.
First, a coalition of 25 cable,...
Telecom Italia | March 10, 2011 | Press Release
Telecom Italia announces that it has finalised the acquisition, through its subsidiary Telecom Italia International N.V.,of a 10% stake of Sofora Telecomunicaciones S.A.’s capital – the holding company which controls Telecom Argentina - from the Argentine...
Fox News | March 9, 2011 | Karla Palomo
At 17, Colombian-born Hernán Rincón was working at a bottling plant to support himself while attending college. Today, he heads up all of Microsoft’s business in Latin America and the Caribbean.
“One has to work with passion and dedication,” he...
Business News Americas | March 9, 2011 | Patrick Nixon
Broadband data management company Tekelec (Nasdaq: TKLC) expects to deploy its policy and charging rules function (PCRF) for an additional six countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (CALA) by midyear, Federico Navarro, Tekelec's CALA sales...
Fox News | March 8, 2011
Mexico City – The typical Mexican Twitter user is a woman living in this capital, according to a survey carried out by marketing firm Mente Digital.
Women represent 52 percent of Mexicans with Twitter accounts and they post 2.5 times more...
Wall Street Journal | March 9, 2011 | Anthony Harrup
MEXICO CITY—Mexico's largest phone company Telefonos de Mexico SAB said it plans to split into two companies, one of which will serve rural and marginalized areas where competitors haven't invested.
The decision by the company controlled by...
Nuance Communications | March 7, 2011 | Press Release
Nuance’s Missed Call Messenger Ensures Movistar Subscribers Get the Message Every Time with Transcribed Voice Messages Delivered via SMS Text
BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), today announced that its Missed Call Messenger voice-to-text platform now...
Quepasa | March 8, 2011 | Press Release
Quepasa Corporation (NYSE Amex: QPSA), creator and operator of Quepasa.com, the popular online social networkand game platform for the Latino community, has closed its acquisition of XtFt Games S/S Ltda, the owner ofsubstantially all the assets of...
Grupo Mercatel | March 9, 2011 | Press Release
-- To lower the rates, 9 pending interconnection proceedings with COFETEL must be resolved
-- Telmex-Telcel repeatedly violate their concessions: there are currently 17 sanction proceedings against them at the SCT
-- Consumers are experiencing high costs and...
