Tumblr is now available in Portuguese for Brazil and Portugal, the company announced on its staff blog today. According to the startup, this means that its platform is now available...

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Dominicans can now update their Facebook status, send emails and chat via their feature phones without Internet access thanks to a new service called vSocial, the mobile service company ForgetMeNot...

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How to be successful with an over-the-top TV service in Latin America? That is the question some of the sector’s experts tried to answer yesterday during a panel at Streaming...

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The music service Senzari has taken the opportunity of Geeks on a Plane‘s second trip to Latin America to announce that it has raised $1m in additional funding from 500 Startups...

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With only a few weeks left until the fifth edition of Campus Party Colombia, its organizers announced that the event may not take place in Bogotá in 2013. Controversy with...

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A Brazilian court asked Apple to unlock an iPhone that a Brazilian lawyer had bought in the US, Gizmodo Brasil reports. According to the blog, it all started when Carlo Frederico Müller...

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Living in our bubbles, glued to our MacBooks from our offices in New York, London and San Francisco, we often forget that not everyone in the world has such access...

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Netflix has signed a multi-year agreement with Twentieth Century Fox to license some of the studio’s programming for its Latin American online streaming service, the company announced today. As from...

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The new iPad is coming to 30 additional territories on May 11th and May 12th, Apple announced on its site today. While we already knew that the tablet would become...

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Argentina has imposed a whopping US$42m (ARS186m) fine on Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica, El País reports. This measure follows the major phone blackout that hit Argentina last month. According to the Spanish...

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Apple has canceled its plans to launch its iBookStore in Brazil with prices in local currency, the national newspaper Folha reports [in Portuguese, for subscribers]. As we reported at the...

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Apple has now confirmed that the new iPad will become available in Brazil on May 11. As the Brazilian website G1 noted, the launch date is now visible in the...

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Google Play will soon offer e-books and music in Brazil, the Brazilian blog Google Discovery reports. The recent announcement was made by the company’s product management director for Android, Hugo...

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One week after our conference in Amsterdam, we are now back with our weekly media roundup. From World Press Freedom Day to Guardian Activate Summit in New York, the last...

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Brazil has overtaken India as the second biggest country on Facebook, SocialBakers reports. According to the social media analytics firm, the country now has over 46m Facebook users, a 22%...

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The ticket-selling platform Fandango is partnering with Telemundo to target Hispanic audiences, IndieWire reports. Following its partnership with this US Spanish-speaking network, the company will launch Fandango Cine, which should...

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Amigos! Look what just arrived ‘novo’ in Brazilian electronics stores and the local Apple.com store: it’s the new Apple TV (via Telecompaper). Compared to the ‘old’ Apple TV, the television...

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Google has confirmed that its business practices are under investigation in South Korea and Argentina, according to a regulatory filing, reported by Bloomberg. While the Korean investigation is ongoing, the probe...

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Do you wish language barriers didn’t exist? Well, the young startup Babelverse hopes to make them disappear, thanks to its online community of remote interpreters. After a few months in...

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Foxconn workers in Brazil could go on strike from May 3, the local newspaper Jornal de Jundiai writes. As we reported, Jundiai is the Brazilian city where Foxconn recently started...

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The real-time voice translation startup Babelverse will provide live interpretation of TNW Conference in Spanish and Portuguese, its co-founders announced today. For the young startup, it is a great way...

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According to the Brazilian newspaper Folha, Apple’s new iPad will hit the shelves in Brazil between the second and third week of May. While the company hasn’t confirmed this rumor,...

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Walmart has big international expansion plans for its streaming video service Vudu, Variety reports. Quoting confidential sources, the Hollywood trade paper expects Vudu to launch in Mexico in June, followed...

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Brazil will be the first market to get Mozilla’s ‘Boot to Gecko‘ open source mobile phones, the Brazilian blog Ztop reports. The announcement was made today in Sao Paulo by...

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Recently, Pablo Ambram said he wanted me to apply to the Founder Institute (FI) in Chile, one of the 9 Latin American Accelerator Programs you should know about. And it’s not...

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