Prysmian Group said Wednesday that it is investing over $110 million U.S. in optical fiber plants and research. Part of that effort includes the launch of a newly expanded optical fiber production facility in Sorocaba Sao Paulo. Read More »

Argentine companies, especially a new breed of start-ups that export high-technology services, are finding in bitcoin a solution to government controls that limit most access to American dollars and to a parallel market with an unfavorable exchange rate, said Lisa Besserman, founder and CEO of Startup Buenos Aires. Read More »

The e-commerce platform Shopify, which allows users to open an online store and sell their goods and services, is now available in Brazil. Shopify lets sellers organize products, customize storefronts and accept payments by credit card. Read More »

Wyndham Hotel Group, which calls itself the world´s biggest hotel company in number of hotels, will get 25 new franchises in Latin America and the Caribbean by the end of the year, adding to 146 already in place. Wyndham also aims to set up its first own hotel operation in the region by year´s end. Read More »

Leaducate, an Argentina-based student prospecting service, wants to expand a model it calls profitable across Latin America and beat competition from better financed U.S. and European companies, the company COO said. Read More »

Brazilian airline Avianca Brasil plans to increase its share of the domestic market in Brazil from nearly 10 percent to at least 15 percent this year by adding eight bigger planes, the company´s marketing vice president Tarcisio Gargioni said. Read More »

Latest and thinnest device in ZTE's Blade series to be available to Telcel customers in Mexico. Read More »

Harris Corporation and CPqD, a private organization that specializes in communications and information technologies, recently received a contract to support the Brazilian Air Force air traffic control (ATC). Read More »

Solarcentury, one of the world’s longest-standing solar companies, and Hybrytec, a leading solar energy market in Colombia, partnered to create and install Colombia’s largest roof photovoltaic (PV) solar system. Read More »

Bottled chilled coffee drinks to be available in part of Latin America next year. Read More »

Jelastic Inc., cloud-based company that offers a platform for contain orchestration while allowing entire freedom of choice from technology to customers as well as an advanced level of DevOps workload mobility, recently announced that it has partnered with Facilcloud.com, a hosting service provider in Latin America. Read More »

Unify, a top communications software and services firm, recently announced that Francisco Pinto Neto is its new vice president of channels for Latin America. Read More »

The Inter-American Development Bank and the OPEC Fund for International Development last week signed a co-lending agreement to drive further trade financing to Latin America and the Caribbean. The partnership will allow banks to borrow on commercial terms. Read More »

The Inter-American Development Bank projects its total lending to 26 member countries of Latin America and the Caribbean will be slightly lower this year compared to US $13.8 billion of lending in 2014, while there will be an important change starting next year in the handling of private sector lending, an IDB spokesman said. Read More »

International Distribution Co. President and CEO Pedro Rodriguez will receive the 2015 International Distributor of the Year award at the annual ShowEast Convention, ShowEast announced last week. He will receive the award Oct. 13 in Hollywood, Florida. Read More »

Batero Gold Corp. announced last week that it has entered into a support agreement with CB Gold Inc., under which it has agreed to make an offer to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of CB Gold. The offer values the CB Gold equity at $9 million. Read More »

Belatrix, one of the top agile innovators and application designers located in Latin America, recently announced that it has partnered with WSO2 to encourage businesses to connect for better networking. Read More »

¨Coderhouse has more than 200 students in Argentina and we expect to double that number this year. In Chile we have already graduated 30 students and we expect to triple that number,¨ said Pablo Ferreiro, co-founder of Coderhouse. Read More »

CMA CGM Cayenne is the first of three new vessels being delivered to international shipping group. Read More »

Zoloto Resources, Ltd recently has expanded its operations in Ecuador by acquiring interests in producing oil reserves. Zoloto Resources anticipates the expansions will have a positive impact on its business and on the economy of the local community. Read More »