State of LATAM Mobile Development: Thin Supply of Developers Yet Increasingly Sophisticated Delivery
June 14th, 2013
DepPue at Inaka: Specializing in U.S. startups.
By Jon Tonti
Whether you are looking to build a proprietary consumer-facing mobile app or give employees access to enterprise application tools via a mobile business application, chances are ROI can be more attractive with the right nearshore mobile development partner. Although mobile development skill is not ubiquitous in LatAm by any means, pockets of mobile development maturity in Latin America are more than evident. With the release of iOS 7’s local search dynamic, there is more opportunity for more players in the space.
New E-Report: Staying on Top of Tech Curve Requires Savviness in Selecting Consulting Partners
June 11th, 2013
Advancements in cloud computing, mobile, social media and Big Data have overwhelmed the business world, leaving business executives with an unprecedented array of questions about how new technology can be better integrated into client products. This timely topic is examined in depth in a new Nearshore Americas E-Report – published here and available for free download.
“The Desire is There”
May 28th, 2013The Human Capital component of Nearshoring from the view of an investor, entrepreneur, international banker and business chamber leader.
How Do Nearshore Markets and Vendors Rate?
May 20th, 2013Executives from Humana, Riverwood Capital, Pace Harmon and AT Kearney debate the maturity of LATAM for BPO and shared services.
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Klender of Deloitte: List of global corps setting up in LATAM grows.
Narayan Ammachchi
Latin America is quickly establishing itself as a preferred destination for global corporations seeking to set up shared service centers (SSC), with more and more players pursuing new locations in Brazil and the Andean states to perform back-office functions. “Proximity and cost structure are some of the factors favoring the region,” says Mark Klender, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, which has recently surveyed nearly a hundred global corporate executives to gauge shared services trends and preferences.
MercadoLibre Teams with Wayra to Fund Argentine Startups
May 17th, 2013By Narayan Ammachchi
Start-up accelerator Wayra and MercadoLibre have joined forces to fund and train early-stage technology entrepreneurs in Argentina. The e-commerce portal MercadoLibre said it would ‘co-invest in certain ventures’ selected by Wayra, a start-up accelerator from Spanish telecom giant Telefonica.
The agreement comes weeks after Wayra issued a call for young entrepreneurs to send in their applications for venture capital by May 26. The e-commerce portal is likely to invest in companies capable of creating new applications and services to its community of buyers and sellers. MercadoLibre recently announced the launch of an investment fund of $ 10 million that will be entirely focused on new ventures that use their platforms.
According to analysts, MercadoLibre’s aim is to strengthen the e-commerce ecosystem in the region it operates. MercadoLibre is “an ideal partner for acceleration and internationalization of our companies,” said Andrew Sabol, Country …
Some of the best moments of Nearshore Nexus ’13 happened on the fly – during networking breaks, on the way to sessions, in hallways, at lunch or during our closing “Nexus After Dark” reception. Our team has gathered the best photos from those moments here in one album on our Facebook page – take a look and recall the great memories!
View Slideshow: Business Networking at Nearshore Nexus
Globant’s Michref: Getting vulnerable youths connected
By Narayan Ammachchi
TesteAR, a manual software testing training program created and launched by Globant, has won this year’s prestigious Foundations for the Future (F4F) Award for corporate social responsibility (CSR). The award – instituted jointly by the Nearshore Executive Alliance and Nearshore Americas – is designed to create awareness about the importance of social impact programs in the Latin America global services industry.
By Narayan Ammachchi
Cessi – the privately supported IT association promoting Argentina firms – has launched four offices across America in a bid to bring greater attention to the Argentina software and IT services sector.
The new offices are in Austin, United States, São Paulo, Brazil, Bogotá, Colombia and Mexico City, Mexico. The IT lobby group is selecting employees for its new offices and drawing up operating plans.
Cessi will use these offices to offer member companies operational support and technical advice, which they may need for promoting their products and services abroad.
The lobby group is also expected to publish reports about the supply and demand for Argentinean IT services in the global marketplace. Over the coming years, Cessi will also set up similar offices elsewhere in the region, particularly in the United States.
Organizing IT fairs in foreign countries and launching trade missions are some of …
ECLAC Urges Member Countries to Promote Digital Economy
April 5th, 2013By Narayan Ammachchi
The digital economy accounts for 3.2 percent of GDP in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, says a new study from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
As far as the digital economy is concerned, the ECLAC says, countries in the region are progressing at ‘two very different technological speeds’.
In some countries, information and communications technologies (ICTs) are having a positive impact on economic growth, while in other countries progress is slower.
“The three most advanced countries have 15 times as much development than the ones lagging the furthest behind. Furthermore, the digital divide between Latin America and countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in terms of mobile broadband is getting wider (11% versus 55% penetration in 2011),” said Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC Executive Secretary, addressing the ongoing Ministerial Conference on the information society …
