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 company...
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 link...
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 topic...
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 expected...
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 value...
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 it...
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 States....
Jamaica – It’s big business elsewhere so, with the rise of the internet culture in the Caribbean, the region was sure to get their fair share...
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 it...
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 to...
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 and...
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 an...
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 August...
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 work...
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, pretty...
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 University...
by David Mullings USA/JA-According to the blog Second Life Insider, Reggae superstar Shaggy will be making his first-ever virtual appearance on the web tomorrow(Wednesday) in popular...
USA,Techcrunch40 conference- Loudtalks , a Russian startup offfers a free downloadable push-to-talk messaging application for nearly any phone. It supports real time private or group voice...
USA Techcrunch40 Conference- Cube Telecom is creating a global Mobile Virtual Network (MVNo). The company aims to drastically reduce international calling rates by lowering mobile roaming...
