Digital advertising is seeing fast growth in Peru with annual revenues of $82 million, but still lags behind other regions, and experts have been asked to try to change this during a Digital Transformation Summit scheduled for Sept. 22 in Lima. Read More »

Albemarle Corporation’s subsidiary Rockwood Litio Limitada was presented with the prestigious 2015 National Mining Society award for its valuable contributions in the lithium industry in Chile. Read More »

U.S.-based Lockton Companies announced Friday the appointment of Guilherme Perondi Neto as deputy CEO of their Brazilian subsidiary. Read More »

The world’s leading manufacturer of recreational marine propulsion engines, Mercury Marine, has opened a new training center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Read More »

The world’s largest leader in CCTV and video surveillance, Hikvision, announced Friday that it has partnered with WDC, Brazil’s largest distributor of surveillance products. Read More »

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) will combine their technical and financial resources to help improve the productivity and competitiveness of shrimp value in the Latin American Region. Read More »

Goldcorp Inc. and Teck Resources Limited announced Friday an agreement to combine their respective El Morro and Relincho projects, located approximately 40 kilometers apart in the Huasco Province in the Atacama region of Chile, into a single project. Read More »

MilSatCom Latin America 2015, a regional meeting place for military satellite communications specialists, will take place in Maceio, Brazil, this September. Read More »

GeoPark Limited today announced a new oil field discovery following the drilling of exploration well Chachalaca 1, located on the Llanos 34 Block in Colombia. GeoPark drilled and completed the Chachalaca 1 exploratory well to a depth of 12,270 feet. Read More »

Myriad Group AG announced Wednesday it has partnered with Viacom in an effort to improve the content engagement for Latin America Versy users. “Our audience is becoming increasingly digitally sophisticated," Eduardo Lebrija, of Viacom The Americas, said. Read More »

More than 80 panelists will meet at Markets Group's Real Estate Brazil Forum in Sao Paulo Oct. 21-22. The meeting will focus on new and established funds in the market as well as joint venture and direct investment opportunities in Brazil. Read More »

In a partnership with Kiwanda Group and Dr. Carlos Caceres, Lara Exploration has declared that it will begin operations developing phosphate rock projects in Columbia. Read More »

Makers of zero-calorie, all natural sweetener products sees potential growth in Brazil and other countries. Read More »

Kalmar, part of Cargotec Corp., announced that it has received an order from Chilean-based Puerto Central, S.A. (PCE) for 24 Kalmar Ottawa T2 terminal tractors and three Kalmar DCG160-12 forklift trucks. The order is expected to be delivered in November. Read More »

Latin American Minerals has secured a $200,000 loan for general working capital to address a short-term deficiency. In addition, a company insider has advanced $100,000. That loan constitutes a "related party transaction" as defined under MI 61-101. Read More »

Cisco Systems said its Latin America supply chain operations-engineering center in Guadalajara, Mexico, has opened. The new center will support the expansion of the firm's supply chain operation in the region. It is Cisco's second office in Guadalajara. Read More »

Expanding its global operations, WindSim AS has recently announced it will open up a new subsidiary in Brazil. WindSim AS is a computational fluid dynamics wind modeling company specializing in software and services, focusing on the wind project life cycle. Read More »

Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks and Ocean Networks Inc. have recently announced their intention to expand the South America Pacific Link submarine cable from Panama to Florida. This will add almost 2,000 miles to the approximately 9,000-mile-long network. Read More »

Icomex will be re-branded as ibtm Latin America and become part of Reed's global portfolio of meetings, incentives and event exhibitions. Being part of the ibtm portfolio gives the event an international presence in the global meetings industry Read More »

MiMediaManzana.com has already signed up half a million users in four countries. Read More »