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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...

Sempli, the Colombian online lending platform for small businesses, announced this week that it has secured $8 million USD in Series A venture capital, the round being led by Oikocredit and Incofin CVSO. Existing and new investors joined the round, including BID LAB (The...

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...

Colombia’s Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio, or Superintendence of Industry & Commerce, akin to the US Federal Trade Commission, has announced a punitive fine on Uber Colombia SAS, Uber’s Colombia subsidiary, after Uber officials and lawyers allegedly blocked access...

Earlier this month, according to various eyewitness reports, around 100 independent Rappi delivery contractors burned their trademark orange merchandise totes in front of Rappi’s offices in the north of Bogotá.  Rappi delivery contractors are not employees but independent...

The Holberton School, a college alternative for training software engineers, last week announced that it has opened a campus in Medellín, it’s second Colombia campus after opening one in the capital of Bogotá. Holberton provides what it calls “Silicon-Valley grade” peer-learning...

Bogotá based Rappi, an on-demand delivery startup operating in Latin America, has announced an investment of up to $1 billion USD from Japanese tech giant SoftBank Group Corp and SoftBank Vision Fund. The investment marks the largest technology financing to date in a Latin...

The financing will allow Cabify to reinforce its activity in favor of its smart cities agenda, reducing mobility costs, and improving the lives of citizens," said IDB Invest.

The competition will take place over 27.5 hours as participants race come up with open-data-based solutions to "citizen security" challenges.

"In the 1950s, customers going to a retail store had to wear a suit," says owner Hernando Castro. "People in the city used to dress up most of the time. But we get by. There are still people who have a good taste for clothes."