Archives for September, 2007

South Africa-For those living in South Africa and working online, sending and receiving money over the Internet has been a real challenge. PayPal only allows ...


Jamaica-In my own quest to know more about online forex trading, living in Jamaica, where the forex trading subject has left the country polarised. ...


US- A four year study of how internet users have been spending their time online has revealed that they are now spending 47% of their ...


Wamba is a Spanish social network focused on Latin America seeking to compete with Myspace and Orkut. The company also has plans to launch an ...


Jamaica- Jamaica leads the island in the forex fever. It was started by Olint, being fed by the Ceo’s training entity, MTI traders. ...


by David MullingsNon-profit organizations tend to lack much in the way of young volunteers and a number of Jamaican ones have turned to the web ...


UK- Blyk, the mobile virtual network operator we launched in the UK two days ago. The company, which bills itself as a pan-European free mobile ...


News AnalysisJamaica- America Movil, Latin America's cell phone goliath with 137 million customers, a Fortune Global 500 status has agreed to buy Jamaica’s smallest cell ...


Jamaica-Idletribes.com a fast growing social networking site spawned has spawned a rum bar online. They are beta testing rumbarjamaica.com-a social site encouraging its members to ...


Jamaica- We saw a doubling of traffic to our SiliconCaribe site because of a single story on Forex trading. We knew it was a hot ...


Kingston, Jamaica- This year the three year old annual Consumer Electronic Show snagged Digicel, the Caribbean’s largest mobile provider as its title sponsor. So many ...


USA- Yep, that's the word from The WallStreet Journal(WSJ). Microsoft is in talks to but a 5% stake in Facebook for US$300-500 million. That would ...


    by Susan LeeQuee OpenOffice is a multiplatform, multilingual Office Suite and an open-source project. According to openoffice.org, the OpenOffice suite is compatible with all ...


Jamaica- Online FX trading made headlines in Jamaica over the last two years. Traditional investment companies heard a giant sucking sound from their accounts, Jamaicans ...


Barbados- Without question the time is now for the Caribbean and Latin American region to experience the dot come boom already experienced by the United ...


Jamaica - It’s big business elsewhere so, with the rise of the internet culture in the Caribbean, the region was sure to get their ...


USA- A Silicon Valley company co-founded by a 12-year-old,Arjun Mehta has just raised $6.5 million in venture capital. PlaySpan, based in Santa Clara, Calif. says ...


by Susan LeeQuee Jamaica - In the Caribbean, we have unique and successful brands, not to mention the seasonal sold out music events and parties, that ...


USA-PlugAdPlay is a video advertising site which gives any video producer the chance to earn money with their video clips. Users can ad PlugAdPlay adverts ...


USA-Shopit is both a personal online store and also a widget you can add to a blog, website or social network profile to sell products ...


USA-Spottt is quite straightforward. It lets sites exchange ads, to boost each other’s traffic. Publishers provide an ad for another site, in return for accepting ...


USA-Religious-themed social networks are on the rise. GodTube, a You Tube for Christians was the fastest growing site on the Internet in the month of ...


USA- Facebook has launched FB Fund, a US$10 million fund from Founders Fund and Accel Partners that will help fund developers and startups apps that ...


USA- Streetfire, an Atlanta-based auto enthusiast site, has raises US$6.1 million from undisclosed venture investors. The site features active community forums, blogs and user-generated videos, ...


Trinidad- Started six years ago by Camille Selvon-Abrahams, a Trinidadian, Animae Caribe is slated for its annual Caribbean Animation and New Media Festival at the ...