Tag Archives : Latin America

Google is seeking partnerships with computer manufacturers and telecom operators in Latin America. The company wants to take what he sees as “huge” growth opportunity in leading Internet companies in the region, told Reuters the company’s executive director for the region, Alexandre Hohagen. With Internet penetration rates still relatively [...]

According to a survey recently released by comScore, only in June Twitter‘s website was accessed by more than 93 million users, an increase of 109% compared to last year. With this, the microblogging service earns the status of a social networking more accessible worldwide. “Today, almost three among four global Internet users accessing [...]

In the early afternoon of Monday, 09/08, the company hosting services Locaweb faced failures in its system. The place left sites hosted by the company – including its own – off the air for about 20 minutes. Among the Web sites compromised by the problem is the Look Digital, which had affected its services throughout the period of difficulty [...]

Sao Paulo is an amazing city in many ways. Not just for being part of a metropolitan area that has 22 million inhabitants. Not only for being one of the richest cities in the world. Not just for being the downtown financial center of Latin America. No, Sao Paulo is all that is much more. Founded by Portuguese Jesuits for over 500 years ago, the city [...]

The International Organization for Migration (IOM), a Geneva-based body, warned that ‘the world must prepare for a mass increase in climate-linked migration.’ Deemed as a certain reality in the foreseeable future, it is what leaders who wrangled deals at the Copenhagen Climate Conference failed to be alarmed about. The United Nations Climate Change [...]

PayPal is the largest “intermediary payment” service in the world. For those who do not know, works like this: you create a PayPal account (usually associated with a credit card) and when you do some shopping online, instead of passing your bank details to any vendor that you may not know, you use PayPal as an intermediary and thus completes [...]

There has been much controversy about Barack Obama being awarded Nobel peace Prize for 2009. It is indeed intriguing that President of United States of America who is sending more troops and is engaging in a war in Afghanistan should be declared as an ambassador of global peace. Interestingly Obama even maintained a tactical silence when Israel was [...]

Forget peak oil. What the world will grapple with in the future is something far scarier than the alarm over peak oil: peak water. And just like oil, the problem behind water scarcity is the unequal distribution of and unequal access to the resource. The global imbalance in the distribution and access to water looks dismal: ‘With 31 percent of global [...]

A leaked ‘UN report says pandemic may result in anarchy unless the rich western countries pay for antiviral drugs and vaccines.’ The amount to shell out is $1.5 billion. The swine pandemic is expected to ‘kill millions’ which would ‘cause anarchy in the world’s poorest nations,’ thereby causing weak economies to completely collapse, [...]

‘The Honduran military ousted and exiled leftist President Zelaya in what was Central America’s first military coup since the Cold War.’ The move was triggered by Zelaya’s attempt to legalize an extension of his power timetable. In other words, Zelaya wanted to tinker with the country’s Constitution to seek another term of office, a sensitive [...]