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Global emerging market startup accelerator Seedstars has named its nine most promising startups from Latin Amercia in front of over 200 guests at Medellin’s Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB). These nine early stage companies will represent the region at the Seedstars...

Quibdó is the capital of Chocó, Colombia’s largest Pacific-Coast department that is too often neglected by Colombia’s central government when it comes to investment, security and development. Though poverty-stricken and lacking development, Chocó is known for its natural beauty,...

Last week Accenture (NYSE: ACN) opened its first NanoLab in Ruta-N in Medellín. The NanoLab will immerse local Accenture customers in the latest emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, extended reality, quantum computing, robotics, cybersecurity, blockchain,...

November 26 and 27 saw the latest iteration of the World Leadership Forum in Medellín co-sponsored by WOBI and the Medellín mayor’s office, taking place in Medellín’s Plaza Mayor convention center. This year the event brought in seven globally recognized keynote speakers, and is...

Frontera Energy Corporation (TSX: FEC) last week announced its full year 2020 capital plan and guidance information. According to the company, the 2020 plan and guidance has been developed with the following four key objectives: Delivering sustainable levels of production and...

Chicago based Invenergy, a privately held company that develops and operates sustainable energy solutions, Monday announced that it has executed a strategic partnership agreement with Empresas Publicas de Medellin (EPM) to develop, build, and operate large-scale wind and solar...

On November 21, massive protests took place throughout Colombia; the largest at least since 1977, over 40 years ago. Though limited labor union strikes and university student protests are fairly common in Colombia, this was a public action unseen in Colombia for at least two...

Colombia’s largest glass manufacturer Tecnoglass (NASD: TGLS; BVC: TGLSC) has announced that it will begin the process to delist ordinary shares from the “Bolsa de Valores de Colombia,” (BVC) Colombia’s principal stock exchange based in Bogotá. “As we have shifted from under 60%...

At the instruction of the Colombian President Ivan Duque’s finance ministry, Colombia’s state-controlled petroleum company, Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC, BVC: ECOPETROL) has called for an extraordinary meeting of shareholders for December 16th at 7:30am in Bogotá’s Corferias...

Statistics announced by Colombia’s DANE statistics agency indicate that for the first 3 quarters of 2019, hotel occupancy reached a rate of 56.7%, and hotel revenues rose 11.7% over the same period the previous year, and the highest in the past 14 years. José Manuel Restrepo,...