After Delivery Hero bought the digital home delivery platform Glovo in 2020, the company has informed that in order to compete in the Guatemalan market it intends to execute an ambitious investment plan.
Samsung, Huawei, LG and Lenovo are some of the brands with the greatest presence in searches and conversations online and on social networks associated with these electronic devices, which are carried out by Central American consumers with high purchasing power.
An analysis of the interests and preferences of consumers in Central America, prepared by the Trade Intelligence Area of CentralAmericaData, provides interesting results on the preferences and tastes of people for deodorants and other personal care items.
In a transaction valued at around $272 million, German company Delivery Hero acquired Glovo's operations in eight Latin American countries, including Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama and the Dominican Republic.
Delivery Hero strengthens its position in Latin America, adding Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Honduras and Guatemala to its existing presence, and further expanding its existing operations in Argentina, Panama and the Dominican Republic, the German business group reported.
Because of the restrictions on movement decreed in Central American countries, orders in applications dedicated to home delivery have increased considerably.
The services of electronic delivery platforms such as Hugo and Uber Eats, among others, are among the few sectors that will be able to circulate in El Salvador after Nayib Bukele announced on March 21 the home quarantine, which will last 30 days.
With the aim of expanding the market, applications in Guatemala are no longer exclusively dedicated to food delivery, as they propose strategies with supermarkets, clothing stores, pharmacies and shoe stores.
The companies participating in the Guatemalan market agree that there is a great demand for home delivery services, as the complicated transit situation in Guatemala City forces customers to seek alternatives.
The commercial potential of mobile devices continues to grow in emerging markets, where 93% of people check their phone in the first hour after waking up.
A global report by Deloitte highlights the growing business potential of mobile devices such as tablets and mobile phones, both in developed and emerging markets.
The total value of the use of drone technology in the future in agriculture is estimated at $32 billion and in infrastructure services, the figure is more than $45 billion.
A comprehensive report by PriceWaterhouseCoopers points to the business potential of the drones market and the application of this technology in different productive sectors such as infrastructure, agriculture, services, telecommunications, transportation, safety and mining, among others.
The massive and growing use of mobile devices is hitting businesses hard, generating great opportunity and great risks.
A report from RSA (The Security of Business Innovation Council), once again brings to the forefront the growth of mobile phone use in businesses for both internal management and to communicate with customers and consumers.
60% of the world's population have no access to banking services, although 85% have a mobile phone.
Brett King, founder of the first mobile banking service in the U.S. and the UK, and specialist in innovation in financial services, was at the XII Latin American Congress on banking automation, which is being held in Panama. His states that the key "to popularize and expand banking services to all sectors of the population is the use of mobile technology, especially since the advent of smart devices. "
Although we have not yet seen mass use of payments via mobile phones, 2012 will bring a significant acceleration of this trend.
The arrival of the cashless society has been declared in every trend list since 2005. Even though 2012 won't be the year when consumers massively give up using coins and bills for swiping their smart phones against the tills, it will be the year that major players like Google and MasterCard actively launch initiatives so we can all avoid carrying hard cash in our pockets.
Research In Motion, a Canadian maker of BlackBerry phones, said the problems that have been affecting users were caused by the failure of one of its servers.
A press release by Research In Motion reads:
"The problems with delays in messaging and navigation that some BlackBerry users are experiencing is due to a failure in the core switching infrastructure at RIM (Research In Motion). Although the system is designed have failover back-up switch, it did not work as planned.
The theft of information such as user names and passwords, credit card and bank account information has extended its scope to mobile communications.
A variant of ‘phishing’ attacks which targets users of personal computers, ‘smishing’ uses social engineering techniques to obtain sensitive information for criminal purposes, using mainly text messages sent to cell phones.
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