Looking to strengthen its Enterprise Performance Management data analysis software suite, PeopleSoft Inc. has bought Advance Planning Solutions Inc. (APS), which makes software for business modeling, PeopleSoft announced today.
Microsoft Corp. has reached into its very deep pockets to strengthen the security features of future versions of Windows by incorporating biometrics technology into the operating system.
Siemens AG plans to give itself a vitamin shot to increase its IT business in the health-care industry by acquiring U.S.-based Shared Medical Systems Corp. (SMS) for about US$2.1 billion.
Excessive. Radical. Arbitrary. Drastic. Disturbing.
MCI WorldCom Inc. closed its first fiscal quarter with an 80 percent increase in net income, to US$1.3 billion, or 44 cents per share, compared to $730 million, or 24 cents per share, in the first quarter of last year, the company announced today.
Diveo Broadband Networks Inc. announced today it has launched a data center in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to provide a variety of Internet-related services to businesses in that city.
Compaq Computer Corp.'s growing pains as it tries to evolve from a PC manufacturer to a broader systems provider continue to plague the company, which today reported a minuscule 1 percent increase in revenue in the first fiscal quarter.
The number of subscribers to cellular services and PCS (personal communications services) rose 47 percent in 1999 to 40.5 million in Latin America, compared with 1998, according to a new report from the Strategis Group Inc. in Washington, D.C.
In what is to date the most optimistic outlook for electronic commerce in Latin America, Forrester Research Inc. is predicting that online sales will reach US$82 billion in the region by 2004, and that's without counting México, which the analyst firm considers as part of North America.
America Online Inc. (AOL) closed its third quarter with revenue up 47 percent to US$1.8 billion, compared to the same quarter last year. Most of the revenue -- $1.15 billion -- came from subscription fees, while the rest originated primarily from advertising and commerce, the company said today.
Compaq Computer Corp., which leads Latin America's PC market, continues to grow its online sales in the region.
Technology stocks may be experiencing turbulence, but Latin America-oriented Internet startups keep luring investors.
Free lunches may be hard to come by, but free Internet access is becoming increasingly easy to find in Latin America.
StarMedia Network Inc., the Latin America-focused Internet company whose shares took a dive in March and haven't recovered, wowed analysts today with its first-quarter financial results.
Users of StarMedia Network Inc.'s various Web sites and portals spent more time online, and more of them made online purchases in 1999 than in 1998, according to the company's second annual survey of its users' online behavior.