EBay buys stake in Latin American auction site
EBay on Monday announced it will buy a 19.5 percent stake in MercadoLibre SA, a company that runs online auction sites serving Latin America, Spain and U.S. Hispanics.
EBay on Monday announced it will buy a 19.5 percent stake in MercadoLibre SA, a company that runs online auction sites serving Latin America, Spain and U.S. Hispanics.
When a couple we'll call Mr. and Mrs. Anderson came to see our house it had been on the market for three weeks, enough time for me to have honed and perfected my sales pitch to a degree that spooked me.
Web services based on XML (Extensible Markup Language) are becoming an essential part of computing and companies should take the emergence of this technology into consideration as they plan the development of their IT infrastructures, a Microsoft official said Wednesday at the company's Latin America Enterprise Solutions Conference 2001 here.
Web services based on XML (Extensible Markup Language) are becoming an essential part of computing and companies should take the emergence of this technology into consideration as they plan the development of their IT infrastructures, a Microsoft Corp. official said Wednesday at the company's Latin America Enterprise Solutions Conference 2001 in Miami.
IBM will announce this week its first three desktop PCs featuring Intel's new Pentium 4 processor -- a high-end consumer-oriented PC and two desktop machines aimed at businesses.
Hewlett-Packard badly missed expectations for its fourth fiscal quarter, and has decided against acquiring PricewaterhouseCoopers' consulting business.
Hewlett-Packard badly missed expectations for its fourth fiscal quarter, and has decided against acquiring PricewaterhouseCoopers' consulting business.
A reluctance to increase their Internet use is preventing bulk-industry companies from improving their supply-chain processes, according to survey results released Friday.
Going once, going twice ... vendido! The top spot among online retailers in Latin America goes to auction Web sites.
The Internet is getting a bad rap lately. The charges are serious and ominous: It is used to erode people's privacy and violate copyright law. It is fueling the spread of viruses. Con artists trick people online. Sexual predators use it to prey on children. Racists set up Web sites to spread their message.
Latin America's already crowded field of ISPs (Internet service providers) is gaining another player. This time it's UUNet Technologies Inc., WorldCom Inc.'s Internet services arm, which on Tuesday announced plans to extend its global presence to Latin America.
AT&T Latin America Corp., a subsidiary founded last year by AT&T Corp. to offer telecommunications services to businesses in Latin America, began trading its Class A common shares on The Nasdaq Stock Market on Tuesday after completing its merger with FirstCom Corp. on Monday.
Latin American carrier ImpSat Fiber Networks Inc. on Wednesday expanded its offerings by announcing a partnership with Oracle Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. to provide electronic commerce services in the region.
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA (08/22/2000) - Improved telecommunications
infrastructures, an overall economic upturn and increased use of PCs will
generate monumental growth in Latin America's Internet services market in the
coming years, according to a study released Monday.
From Mexico down to Argentina, the desire to connect to the Internet boosted the number of home PCs in Latin America during the second quarter, according to a Dataquest Inc. study released on Thursday.