Cashing in or Crashing- Cashplusinvestment.com is forex trading n investment club central

We’ve been reporting on the Forex trading and investment fever in Jamaica since our site went live two months ago and to date, they remain our most read blog posts. Then we happened on a site and its publisher- cashplusinvestment.com a site that chronicles and gives indepth information on investment clubs of all kinds, updating regularly. It’s a pretty good online resource. There is where you can see who will be the winners and losers I think. A site to bookmark.

SC: What’s your mission/intention for this site?C+: I am based in Kingston actually. My mission is to inform the Jamaican people as well as the Diaspora about these investment clubs/schemes. To some it’s a good way to make money in a country starved for investment. To others it’s a system that is built on clever loopholes around the law and is bound to crash, bringing many people and their interest to their knees. To me it’s both, used wisely, people can make huge sums of money and get out if and when the collapse occurs.Previous Related StoriesForex Fever growing and growing in JamaicaJamaican onlinefx trader blogs his journey to fx riches Is the online forex trading fever the 90s day trading disaster in waiting Capitalor, Swedish forex company targets Jamaica- the CEO interview Read more

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MiPhone switching to GSM, adding a new CEO and buying bMobile?

Jamaica-So this is what some industry insiders are chatting about this week. MiPhone, (the mobile service provider with the smallest market share in Jamaica) which was bought for a reported US$70 million by the very deep pocketed America Movil, Latin America’s largest mobile service provider owned by billionaire Carlos Slim is about to fly the gate. It is being said that they are switching to GSM and will be adding a new CEO pretty soon. This makes sense, why play hero and keep pushing a platform just because it’s supposed to be a more robust and efficient one.Then the industry conversations got more interesting when it mentioned that it would make sense MiPhone buys Cable & Wireless’ bMobile business, simply because nothing’s happening for CWJ these days it seems. They continue to piss off customers with consistently nonexistent customer service, dodgy internet service, rumours of management bunglings and sudden CEO swaps. And they certainly haven’t been spending any money lately. Read more

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Who will give Caribbean students their space on the Web?

Jamaica- Caribbean students who study at home (Jamaica, Grenada, Trinidad and Barbados) and abroad have all flocked to facebook and hi5 in the glaring absence of something of their own.
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Important and Interesting Blog statistics

I kinda ran into this online while reading and had to share. Blogging is here for the long haul.

• Over 12 million American adults currently maintain a blog.
• More than 147 million Americans use the Internet.
• Over 57 million Americns read blogs.
• 1.7 million American adults list making money as one of the reasons they blog.
• 89% of companies surveyed say they think blogs will be more important in the next five years.
• 9% of internet users say they have created blogs .
• 6% of the entire US adult population has created a blog .
• Technorati is currently tracking over 70 million blogs .
• over 120 thousand blogs are created every day .
• There are over 1.4 million new blog posts every day .
• 22 of the 100 most popular websites in the world are blogs .
• 120,000 new blogs are created every day .
• 37% of blog readers began reading blogs in 2005 or 2006 .
• 51% of blog readers shop online .
• Blog readers average 23 hours online each week .

NB: Heads up, watch for the facebook for bloggers site coming up.

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Digicel moves into Suriname its 23rd market

Suriname- Digicel Suriname has signed an interconnection agreement with Telesur, the state owned wireless company and is slated to begin operations in it’s 23^rd market in a couple of weeks. The talks between the two companies started in April this year and has now just now ended after what both party has called tough but successful negotiations. Digicel began its foray in the Caribbean and Latin American markets just over 5 years ago in Jamaica and has since become the largest mobile services provider in the Caribbean.

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Jamaicanservices.com- the online guide to jamaican businesses

Jamaica- With over 6,000 listings of jamaican businesses, jamaicanservices.com is gunning to be the yahoo of jamaican services listings online. The aim of the site, the publisher said is to “list all Jamaican businesses in Jamaica”. Today it launched its google inspired new look, advanced search features and will add they say another 5,000 listings over the next few weeks.

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Facebook Flyers Pro better than Google AdWords?

by David MullingsI have spoken about brands using social networking sites before but this post seeks to show exactly how Facebook can be used for targeted advertising (and why it could very well be worth so much money).Facebook has had a feature called Facebook Flyers where advertisers could place ads and pay for impressions received. They recently created a Pro version that allows advertising more like Google, pay per click.Presently I can only access the flyers application by clicking a link below a flyer that appears on my page but I believe that full access is what Facebook will unveil with their new advertising platform in a few days - AdWords for Facebook that leverages user data and has an image. Read more

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Caribbean Web Developers Association?

There’s been whispers of a government level move towards encouraging the formation of a Caribbean Web Developers Association. Will this be along global standards or will be simply be a directory of web developers of a certain standard. More anon.

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