Category

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...

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,...

Spanish telephone company Telefónica (BME: TEF) announced this week in a letter to from the CEO that it intends to spin off its Spanish-language Latin America operations in order to focus on business in Spain, Brazil, Germany and the United Kingdom. According to the company in a...

Colombia’s Ministry of Information Technology & Communications (MinTIC) has published information and documents related to the Dominio.Co project, instructions on submitting a proposal to manage and serve as the registrar for the .CO top level domain. US based Neustar...

Montevideo, Uruguay based IT software outsourcing firm UruIT continues its growth, opening offices in Colombia’s capital of Bogotá; this after expanding into the Andean nation with Medellín offices in 2016. Primarily serving North American corporate clients from sales offices in...

Fitch Ratings has upgraded Colombia Telecomunicaciones S.A. E.S.P.’s (ColTel) Foreign Currency (FC) and Local Currency (LC) Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) to ‘BBB-‘ from ‘BB+’, the 2022 notes to ‘BBB-‘ from ‘BB+’, and the hybrid...

Colombian President Ivan Duque was present in Cartagena today to give the opening address to ANDICOM, Colombia’s largest and most important ICT (Information & Communications Technology) event. Duque announced the creation of an entrepreneurial ecosystem initiative led by...

Representatives of Colombia and Japan have agreed to establish a permanent working group to advance common interests in trade, investment, and cooperation in the “Orange economy.” The effort was agreed upon during a meeting between Colombian vice minister of trade Laura...

Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) today announced that Bancolombia (NYSE: CIB) has selected Unisys to support the bank’s digital transformation. Unisys will provide secure digital workplace service capabilities supporting more than 24,000 employees, including a help desk that...

Plural Comunicaciones S.A.S, concessionaire of Canal 1, after a financial review and after exploring numerous alternatives together with its partners, has decided to cancel the popular weekend news program Noticias Uno. Well liked by viewers, Noticias Uno has been consistently...