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More marketing, targeted education, and training still needs to be done if Colombia wants to continue its growth in IT outsourcing.

For placing first in the INTALENT competition, Stereotheque wins $10,000 USD and a trip to an upcoming MIT conference for its founder.

Giving state and city governments in Latin America more autonomy to manage their own sources of tax revenue could promote greater local development and efficiency, according to a new study by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The study, Decentralizing Revenue in Latin...

The third shipment of electrical cables has arrived from Mexico aboard a Ukraine-flagged, Russian-built specialized transport aircraft to make emergency repairs to EPM’s Guatapé hydroelectric generation facility after an accidental fire on February 15 in an access tunnel took the...

The Global analyst firm Everest Group has released a comprehensive, 165 page report (available here) covering global service delivery locations, and the report cites Colombia as a nascent location in the global services market. While the country still has only a small share of...

São Paulo based Stefanini, a $1B global provider of IT outsourcing, applications management and consulting, and strategic staffing services, has announced that it has acquired Paipa, Boyacá based Government ERP provider Sysman SAS, which will change its name to Stefanini Sysman...

Ecopetrol’s  (BVC:ECOPETROL NYSE:EC TSX:ECP) board of directors has decided to delist the Ecopetrol ADRs (Depositary Receipts) from the Toronto Stock Exchange, pursuant to section 720 of the TSX Companies’ Manual. The decision was based, according to a statement put out this...

Last week, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos visited US President Barack Obama in the White House to discuss ongoing issues, and commemorate 15 years of US diplomatic, military, and social aid to Colombia via the package known as Plan Colombia. Colombia and Chile are the...

While initially offering $175 per $1,000 face value of delinquent Pacific Exploration & Production (TSX: PRE) (BVC: PREC) notes due between 2019 and 2015, Harbour Energy subsidiary EIG Pacific Holdings has revised downward its offer to $160 per $1,000 face value, and amended...

Pacific Exploration & Production Corp. (TSX: PRE) (BVC: PREC) announced today that the Toronto based petroleum company’s lenders have agreed to extend the liquidity deadline to 11:59 pm EST on February 26, 2016, which is the end of the existing waiver period. The waivers...