Bob Marley Family threatens to Sue Universal, Verizon Over Ringtones

New York - Well it looks like Reggae legend Bob Marley’s Estate intends to sue Universal Music Group and mobile carrier Verizon Wireless, over the distribution of Marley master recording ringtones.

Fifty Six Hope Road Music Limited hich is owned by the Marley family said that the release of ringtones for songs like “One Love” and “Redemption Song” was done without their permission, and does not comply with its longstanding contract with Universal.

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Immigrants + Internet = Immi-merce

Jamaica/Amsterdam - There are vast amount of business opportunities linked to immigrant populations traveling back and forth, in large numbers, between their ‘ancestral’ and adopted countries. But what about the new commercial opportunities whenever these home trotters choose to stay put? What about the increasing flow of money linked to selling and buying goods in, or from, immigrants’ countries of origin? Trendwatching.com have dubbed this phenomenon IMMI-MERCE and SiliconCaribe agrees.

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Caribbean Job hunting gets easier for locals and expats

Barbados/Jamaica - With the freedom of movement now in effect for most CARICOM countries, professionals and skilled workers can now move freely about the region and job sites are helping to fuel the island hopping. All that’s coupled with a healthy flow of expatriates in the region, especially Jamaica, because of significant increase of investing Europeans(Irish, British,Spanish) in the tourism, tech and telecom sector.

So we culled the Web, Googled like crazy, let our fingers walk through newspaper pages to come up with the top job sites list led by the two big guns – SplashJamaica.com and Caribbeanjobs.com ( both by the way owned by European expats with executive day jobs).

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Caribbean people flocking facebook.com

USA- WestIndian/Caribbean focused groups are fast growing on facebook.com. Evidence of this is a single group called You know you are a West Indian when…which was started by Alicia Angevine, a Caribbean born forensic science student at New Haven College in US. The online group around 6 months old has just under 12,000 members.” I don’t remember when I exactly started the group. I think it was last December or so and I didn’t have anything in mind but to just spread some west indian culture to other west indians and get a laugh.” And clearly it’s working.

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Why is the Jamaica Mobile market so hot?

Kingston, Jamaica - The Jamaica Telecom market more so the Mobile Sector is about to get hotter. In the last 4 days lots have changed. Cable & Wireless has sacked Rodney Davis, its CEO of Jamaican operations replacing him with the Australian Philip Green. Then MiPhone, the brand of Oceanic Digital was bought out by Mexico’s América Móvil (AMX), a company owned with an ironclad hold on the Latin American market with 137 million subscribers across 16 countries by Carlos Slim, who this year claimed he’s richer than Bill Gates. So far Digicel, the leading mobile provider in Jamaica and the Caribbean has been quiet, maybe busy in making sure their WIMAX offering launches as planned in September.

Two questions easily spring to mind:

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Cable & Wireless sacks it’s Jamaica CEO, again!

Kingston,Jamaica- Cable and Wireless International yesterday announced that Australian Phillip Green has replaced the media friendly and customer responsive Rodney Davis as CEO of the telecoms giant’s Jamaica operations with immediate effect.

The late afternoon announcement sent to media houses left no doubt that Davis was sacked, but Green, when asked about Davis’ departure, said the change was made to strengthen the firm’s management and profile.

“The Caribbean, from a Cable & Wireless International’s perspective, is very important,” Green told the Observer in an exclusive interview yesterday afternoon at the company’s head office in Kingston. “It is a major part of its portfolio and Jamaica’s business is a big element of that. This move to have me come in as the CEO was made to strengthen the management and profile of Cable and Wireless Jamaica.”

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Caribbeanchick.com an online women’s mag goes live

Kingston,Jamaica- Caribbeanchick.com an online magazine has gone live and positions itself as being “for every woman.” The site states that “it is designed to be informative and entertaining, fun and easy to use. Our content focuses on the themes that are at the core of every woman’s life: health, work, relationships, finances, our family, fashion and beauty, the whole well being of a woman.” We wish them luck. The intention is great, but the positioning of trying to be all things to all women is a slippery slop,since they seem to not have a unique angle, a focused target. Nonetheless, they’ve begun their journey. Cheers.

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Jamdeal.com just sprung trindeal.com and dealwi.com

 

 

JamDeal.com, which positions itself as “your online markeplace to buy and sell, new and used items, with others in Jamaica, just sprung two new sister sites -trindeal.com for Trinidad and dealwi.com for Barbados. Deal Ventures Ltd., operators of the online auction marketplaces was previously only focused on the Jamaican marketplace, has now gone Caribbean.

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Caribsingles.com racks up 10,000 members in 60 days

Jamaica- Leighton Scarlett,the Jamaican behind Caribsingles.com told TechWatchCaribbean that his new dating site has racked up just over 10,000 members,with 40% Jamaicam membership in just 60 days. Caribsingles’s pitch is Free Caribbean Dating and positions itself as a fun and discreet dating environment where you can meet singles from around the world who share a common cultural background.

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