Wyndham Hotel Group on Wednesday announced its Latin America and Caribbean portfolio registered record room growth in the second quarter of 2015. The hotel group added 11 new properties and 1,281 rooms in the region from April to June. Read More »

Bookmate, a Russia-based company that offers books through mobile applications and the web, will start offering its service to five Latin America countries within the next two months as it introduces its Spanish-language catalog that already has 40,000 titles. Read More »

Colombian state oil company Ecopetrol saw its earnings hit during the April-June of 2015 from a year earlier in part due to weaker prices and in part due to a surge in rebel attacks, the company CEO Juan Carlos Echeverry said Thursday during a conference call with analysts. Read More »

Company teams up with Premium Restaurants of America to bring its brand to Panama. Read More »

Barrick Gold Corporation recently announced that it has signed a gold and silver streaming agreement with RGLD Gold AG, a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Gold, Inc. Read More »

Chilean service provider IIA has chosen Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator to power its new cloud services. Read More »

Silver Spring Networks and CPFL Energia, Brazil’s largest private electricity group, announced on Wednesday an extension of their smart grid program, with the addition of a grid reliability and Distribution Automation program for cities in the interior of the state of São Paulo. Read More »

Beverly Hills Group, Inc. is changing their business strategy to focus on economic growth in Latin America markets. Read More »

Grant Thornton LLP opened a Latin America Business Group last month as it continues to expand its tax and advisory services. Read More »

Royal Gold, Inc. recently announced that RGLD Gold AG, its wholly owned subsidiary, has agreed to acquire a wholly owned subsidiary from Barrick Gold Corporations, BGC Holdings Ltd. Read More »

Bookmate, a subscription-based social reading service that makes reading accessible to anyone in the world with a mobile phone, announced Wednesday from London that it has now partnered with Tigo Mobile in Paraguay and Guatemala. Read More »

Banco Santander Chile has appointed BNY Mellon, a global leader in investment management and investment services, as the successor depositary bank for its American depositary receipt program. Read More »

Agribotix LLC, located in Boulder, Colorado, and Eco BCG announced on Thursday a strategic joint venture, called Agribotix-Latin America, which will bring agricultural intelligence solutions, leveraging drone-enabled technology, to the region. Read More »

In a report from Dataxis on Monday, they reported that mobile LTE connections are expected to grow to approximately 188 million connections by 2018 in Latin America. Read More »

Financial analysts predict that mid-size Brazilian banks are ripe for merging when you consider high inflation, high interest rates, GDP contraction and rising unemployment. Read More »

Montan Mining Corp. recently announced that it has signed an agreement with Compania Procesadora Mollehuaca SAC, a private company owned by Peru, which will offer a stable 60 tons per day supply. Read More »

Ascending the Andes, Crimson Cup Coffee & Tea coffee buyers who traveled from Columbus, Ohio, recently established an atmosphere of personal rapport with Peru’s coffee farmers in a dynamic direct trade relationship called Friend2Farmer. Read More »

Starbucks, known for its famous coffee, is expanding to Latin America thanks to its partnership with PepsiCo. Read More »

Curio, a collection by Hilton Worldwide, recently opened its first Latin American boutique luxury hotel in Buenos Aires. Read More »

The International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research announced  on Wednesday an agreement with CAC, an organization within the Colombia Ministry of Health, dedicated to addressing issues surrounding the significant budget impact of high cost diseases in the country. Read More »