Today and tomorrow, companies from 12 countries are meeting in Costa Rica to build ties and identify potential partnerships.
The forum, organized by Costa Rica's export promotion agency (Procomer) and the Chamber of Information and Communication technologies (CAMTIC), will bring together 35 companies from Germany, Canada, China, Guatemala, USA, Spain, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and India.
In the next four months, six multinational companies will open operations in the country.
Gabriela Llobet is the director of Cinde, the organism that promotes investing in Costa Rica. According to nacion.com, she refused to comment on the names of the companies, where they will be located or how much they will invest.
She did share, however, the sectors in which they’ll operate: services, manufacture and medical devices.
Change is so fast these days, that when a trend seems to be stabilizing, a new one arrives and replaces it. In the business world, it is vital to try to understand what will happen next.
Samuel Hourdin, Business Development director for Identity & Access Management (Gemalto, Latin America), made 10 predictions for the Online World:
Costa Rica leads in Central America (position 49 in the world), followed by Panama (58), El Salvador (81), Guatemala (83), Honduras (106) and Nicaragua (125).
The Global Information Technology Report 2009-2010 was published today by the World Economic Forum and Insead Business School.
The ranking included 133 countries, and attempts to measure three components:
Exports from Intel's Costa Rican facility increased 18% year-over-year, reaching $595 million.
Karla Blanco, Intel's corporate relations head, commented there is a very positive trend in the mobile products area (laptops and mobile phones), in which the Atom processor plays an important role.
Blanco added, as published by Insidecostarica.com, that "Intel's Costa Rica plant has had to increase production due to the closing of three company factories in Asia".
Being connected and online anywhere has become an essential component in life.
The 2009 Media Engagement Barometer commissioned by Motorola’s Home & Networks Mobility business has revealed a shift in consumer influence that hasn’t been widely recognized yet: Age no longer dictates a consumer’s willingness or ability to use media technology or services.
The Costa Rican Electricity Institute is inviting bids for a storage and distribution service for mobile terminals and devices.
According to the bidding document, the institution: "requires a storage and distribution service, to manage and supply mobile terminals and devices, including reception and quality control, storage, provision of points of sale, order fulfillment, distribution and delivery of orders and inverse logistics, in addition to a software for inventory management up to point of sale", for approximately 50.000 mobile terminals and devices each month.
Under the agreement, TecApro will resell BT's global services portfolio.
TecApro was certified as Gold Member of BT Alliance. This will foster the sale of BT services in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.
"BT Alliance Partner Programme enables IT companies and network solutions providers to resell BT's global services portfolio", informed website ITNow.
Real Hotels & Resorts announced state-of-the-art technology upgrades for all its hotels in Central America.
Sound-proof meeting rooms, 25 giant screens for video conferences, and high-speed internet services are some of the innovations to be developed.
Fernando Poma, vice president of the hotel division of Salvadoran conglomerate Grupo Poma, told ElPeriodico.com.gt: "We have one objective: to be 5 years ahead of the competition by means of a process of constant innovation. Being the only hotel chain providing all these services helps us to be chosen by our customers".
The resources will be used in the company's regional expansion process.
The investment was done by private capital management company Aureos.
ITS Corporate Relations director, Armando Vargas, told Nacion.com: "... the company wants to enter Puerto Rico and the U.S. ....We also want a stronger presence in Panama and to explore the possibility of expanding to Mexico".
Interaction between mobile telephony, barcodes, cameras and software permits "traveling" from print media to the web.
On its Friday edition, the print versions of Wall Street Journal had advertising from BMO Capital Markets. In the lower left part of the ad there was a barcode.
Those readers with a camera-enabled mobile phone and the right software, could aim it to the barcode, take the picture and directly access BMO Capital Markets, where they would get more information.
The reknowned event "Costa Rica Technology Insight" will hold its sixth edition on June 3 and 4 at the San José Palacio Hotel, in San Jose, Costa Rica, during the "Costa Rica Services Summit 2009", organized by the Foreign Trade Corporation of Costa Rica (PROCOMER) in cooperation with the Chamber of Information and Communication Technologies of Costa Rica (CAMTIC).
The reknowned event "Costa Rica Technology Insight" held its sixth edition this June 3 and 4 during the "Costa Rica Services Summit 2009", a business meetings event organized by the Foreign Trade Corporation of Costa Rica (Procomer) in cooperation with the Chamber of Information and Communication Technologies of Costa Rica (CAMTIC).
The Costa Rican Isthmus company signed an alliance with Plug and Play Tech Center, a North American company from Silicon Valley.
The alliance with Plug and Play Tech Center, an incubator of technology companies in United States, will allow Isthums to offer its software development services to the three Plug and Play Tech Center technological complexes in Silicon Valley, where 220 technology businesses operate.
The region places between 56 and 125 in the world in harnessing information and telecommunication technologies (ICTs).
To calculate the placement, three areas were taken into account: Environment, Preparedness and Use. Environment measures the degree to which the country's general atmosphere promotes the development of ICTs, measuring factors such as market infrastructure and regulation.