By year end, last year, it was announced that Netflix might eventually enter the Latin American market, among other regions, after the expansion they already started in North America with Canada. Coverage done by Enter.co (in Spanish) ends their article with the question: Would our regional movie rental stores be ready for their market entrance? [...]
Posts Tagged ‘News’
Netflix Coming to Latin America
Posted in Business, tagged Business, Entertainment, Movies, Netflix, News on January 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Freedom of Expression
Posted in Business, tagged Business, Colombia, El Tiempo, Freedom, Freedom of Expression, News, Property Rights on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ESPAÑOL Today I read an opinion article from Colombian newspaper site ElTiempo.com titled “Reflexiones sobre un Escandalo.” My post is not going to comment on the content, but on the surprising ending: The reporter goes into a critical opinion on the newspaper’s professionalism, and then the newspaper publicly claims to interpret it as her resignation [...]
The Kid and Global Warming
Posted in Business, Economics, Science, tagged Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, Business, Forbes, Global Warming, linkedin, News, Science, Sustainability on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m going to tell you a story. A kid just spent all his afternoon hanging around with his friends at the mall, and when he gets home he takes a look at his schedule for the next day. While he is at it, he is suddenly struck by the doubt of whether his science project [...]
Pills for a Smarter Future?
Posted in Science, tagged Cognitive Enhancers, Cognitive Sciences, Economics, News, Science, Scientific American, Sustainability on September 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
In its latest edition, the cover story of Scientific American deals with the issue of cognitive enhancers. This is not any novelty, as similar stories have already been run by The Economist, New York Times, and The New Yorker, among others. I’m not sure of the full contents of this new article, since I’m a [...]
