Business News Americas | February 18, 2011 | Matthew Malinowski
Rolling out both a cloud-based offering and opening Colombia offices are among French software provider Dassault Systemes' Latin American priorities this year, the company's regional president, Marcelo Lemos, told BNamericas.
The French firm recently introduced its...
Business News Americas | February 18, 2011 | Matthew Malinowski
Rolling out both a cloud-based offering and opening Colombia offices are among French software provider Dassault Systemes' Latin American priorities this year, the company's regional president, Marcelo Lemos, told BNamericas.
The French firm recently introduced its...
Bloomberg | February 16, 2011 | The Associated Press
SAO PAULO (AP) — Spain's Telefonica plans to hold a public tender to pay up to $1 billion for outstanding common shares in Vivo, Brazil's top mobile company it already has a large stake in.
Vivo says...
Wall Street Journal | February 18, 2011 | Jose De Cordoba
MEXICO CITY—Companies controlled by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim have decided to stop advertising through the country's biggest broadcaster, Grupo Televisa SAB.
The move by Mr. Slim, expected to cost Televisa some 4% of its advertising...
Wall Street Journal | February 17, 2011 | Mercedes Alvaro
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QUITO (Dow Jones)--Ecuador's largest cellphone company, Porta Celular, the local unit of Mexican communications giant America Movil SAB, (AMX, AMX.MX) plans to invest about $180 million during 2011 in the Andean country,...
Business News Americas | February 18, 2011 | Matthew Malinowski
Government support has given a shot in the arm to Colombia's nascent position as an IT hub, but the local industry is increasingly seen on a collision course with neighboring Peru, Frost & Sullivan research...
Jamaica Observer | February 16, 2011 | Alesia Edwards?
OCHO RIOS, St Ann — Telecommunication between Jamaica, Venezuela and Cuba is soon to be strengthened due to the arrival of a new undersea fibre optic cable as part of an agreement between LIME's parent company...
Xiam | February 14, 2011 | Press Release
BARCELONA, Spain, February 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --
Xiam Technologies Ltd., a Qualcomm company and leading provider of discovery and recommendations solutions, today announced an agreement with Telefonica to integrate Xiam's recommendation technology into its multi-channel touch points. This...
Telefonica | February 14, 2011 | Press Release
Today Telefónica, at the Mobile World Congress shows their pioneering Project which enables customers to store their eDNI data on the SIM card of their mobile phones. This innovative project will allow customers to identify themselves securely...
OnMobile | February 11, 2011 | Press Release
Barcelona, Spain, February 11, 2011 – OnMobile Global Limited, the leading provider of telecom value-added services (VAS), has forged a long term partnership with VIVO Telecom in Brazil to launch RingBack Tones for VIVO’s Brazilian customers. Previously...
Yonhap News Agency | February 11, 2011
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and the Dominican Republic signed a preliminary agreement on Friday to cooperate in the establishment of a commercial ground-based mobile broadband service in the Caribbean country.
The memorandum of understanding (MOU) aims...
Movilway | February 11, 2011 | Press Release
EXPANDING ITS PRESENCE IN SIX COUNTRIES
Movilway, one of the leading electronic top-up service platforms in Latin America, is now present in Mexico to offer electronic top-up for prepaid users.
Users can top-up their mobile phones as well as others, regardless of...
Wall Street Journal | February 11, 2011 | Kejal Vyas
CARACAS (Dow Jones)--Venezuela's state-run telecommunications operator, Compania Anonima Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela, or Cantv, said Friday it has finished connecting a fiber-optic cable that links the southern part of the country to northern Brazil.
Venezuelan officials,...
Alcatel- Lucent | February 11, 2011 | Press Release
Improving 3G coverage in indoor locations and high-traffic public areas
Paris and Madrid, February 11, 2011 — Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced it has been selected by Telefónica for its commercial, Femto-based small cells...
Bloomberg | February 10, 2011 | Betty Liu
Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim talks with Bloomberg's Betty Liu about his 2011 investment strategy in Latin America and his holdings in Saks Inc. and the New York Times Co. They spoke yesterday in...
QuePasa | February 10, 2011 | Press Release
WEST PALM BEACH, FL--(Marketwire - February 10, 2011) - Quepasa Corporation (NYSE Amex:QPSA), creator and operator of Quepasa.com, the popular online social network and gaming platform for the Latino community, has appointed Lars Fuhrken-Batista as a director of the...
Business News Americas | February 10, 2011 | Patrick Nixon
Luxembourg-based mobile operator Millicom International Cellular (Nasdaq: MICC) has forecast capex of US$800mn for 2011, which does not include potential investments in spectrum or potential expenditure in Greenfield assets in Latin America, company CFO Francois-Xavier Roger...
Telefonica | February 10, 2011 | Press Release
Telefonica announced today that it has launched a developer community, BlueVia, which will operate across Telefonica’s global footprint.
BlueVia will build upon the foundations of Telefonica’s existing developer programmes, O2 Litmus in the UK, Open MovilForum in Spain, Movistar...
BBC | February 9, 2011
Cuba has welcomed the arrival of an undersea fibre-optic cable linking it to Venezuela as a blow to the US economic embargo.
The cable will transform communications in Cuba, which has among the slowest internet speeds in the world.
The new connection...
Global Crossing | February 8, 2011 | Press Release
FLORHAM PARK, N.J., /PRNewswire/ --Global Crossing (Nasdaq: GLBC), a leading IP solutions provider with the world's first integrated global IP-based network, today announced that the broadcast and media services offered by its Global Crossing Genesis Solutions...
Digicel | February 8, 2011 | Press Release
Businesses across the Caribbean and Central America to benefit from the region’s newest ICT powerhouse
Tuesday 8 February 2011 – Kingston, Jamaica: Digicel, the Bigger, Better Network has taken a controlling stake in Netxar Technologies, the leading systems...
PR Newswire | February 9, 2011 | Press Release
WOBURN, Massachusetts, February 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- XIUS, a leader in delivering innovative telecom solutions for mobile operators and MVNOs worldwide, today announced that Movistar Colombia - Colombia's second-largest full-service wireless carrier serving more than nine million customers across the...
Reuters | February 8, 2011 | Michael O'Boyle
* America Movil posts 4.7 pct drop in profits
* Surprisingly strong growth in new mobile subscribers
* Bigger stake helps lift Slim's wealth to about $75 bln (Updates with earnings results, estimate on growth of Slim's total wealth, rewrites...
