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...
Kingston, Jamaica-My cousin who is 25, hip and in the know had been harassing me for months to go on facebook, I was already on myspace...
Kingston,Jamaica- We find, we test, we publicise to see if the hype yields results in reality. We joined blogrush.com today. It’s a blog syndication service. If...
USA – A report from Portio Research is forecasting SMS revenues to reach US$67 billion. The increase is mostly attributed to an expected increase in mobile...
USA-ESPN’s Cricinfo, the world’s largest cricket content source, has hired the mobile advertising network AdMob to convert its Internet traffic into a cash cow. AdMob will...
Kingston,Jamaica – Bits and Bytes Jamaica Limited, a Jamaican software company will next month launch a mobile ticket service, where consumers will be able to buy...
St Kitts-The Eastern Caribbean-based company eCaribbean Ltd,owners of caribbeanmassive.com, one of the leading social networks for Caribbean nationals at home and abroad has added video to...
China- China has more than 600 million mobile phones users by June this year, which means every one in five mobile phone users is Chinese, an...
Finland- We thought this is a little od too, but it seems to be working for them. Dutch consumers have a new way to take out...
by Georgia Popplewel Given their small, close-knit populations, relatively low internet penetration, and the continuing primacy of the mainstream media as a source of information, most...
Kingston,Jamaica–CliveMullings has been named Minister of Mining, Energy and Telecommunications in the new Jamaica Labour Party led Government. He will of course have responsibilities for all...
Analysis-They can’t wait on the banks, because they are not interested or simply do not understand. Some can do it with Credit Union Loans. Others sell...
Kingston,Jamaica- Bruce Golding, Leader of the Jamaica Labour Party is now Prime Minister of Jamaica. By end of this week, he will annouce the Members of...
Kingston,Jamaica – The online phenomenon we now call blogging started in 1994 and was pretty much perceived as no more than teenaged idler rants and online...
USA- Nearly half a million people, described by the UN as “the poorest of the poor”, will soon be able to make mobile calls. The BBC...
