‘Practical Techie:’ A brave new digital world
November 6, 2013
The Internet and its gigantic offspring — the Web — is always in flux as new technologies emerge from around the world.
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‘Practical Techie’: Gather your own business intelligence
October 30, 2013
What is the competition up to? The National Security Agency not withstanding, looking over one’s shoulder to check on the competition is always a practical procedure to help survive in the competitive world of business. Spying, it’s called.
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Op-Ed: SBA ‘tickled pink’ about women entrepreneurs
October 28, 2013
For more than two decades now during the month of October, the color pink has been a symbol of awareness, and women and men alike across the world unabashedly wear it in support of breast cancer victims and its survivors.
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Op-Ed: Investing in women as an economic driver
October 24, 2013
In the early 2000s, Marisol Santiago from Villalba was gainfully employed in the healthcare industry, providing for her family while investing in her future. However, following the onset of the global recession, which still plagues Puerto Rico, Marisol was laid off from her job.
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‘Practical Techie’: Payments are just a swipe away
October 22, 2013
Now that our island’s government is bent on developing a vigorous small-business ecosystem in Puerto Rico, it’s prudent to take a look at one strategy that would specially help local micro-enterprises consider merchandise payment options, always a tricky and complicated issue. Quick tech solutions are readily at hand.
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Op-Ed: The development of new export sectors in Puerto Rico
October 17, 2013
The economic challenges Puerto Rico has been facing for over a decade now (and the fact that during that time Latin America has experienced an historic growth in which many of us did not participate) remain the thorn in the side of local enterprises, which titanically still hold together much of our economy.
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‘Practical Techie:’ Algorithms are digital crystal balls
October 16, 2013
Although mostly the dominion of programmers and many a computer scientist, a businessperson should often take on the concept of algorithms to better understand the logic on how a corporation’s data is juggled about in cyberspace.
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Op-Ed: Puerto Rico’s glaring signal to change course
October 15, 2013
Various publications have recently highlighted Puerto Rico’s economic troubles as reflected in the municipal bond market.
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‘Practical techie:’ Deep fishing in the seas of cyberspace
October 8, 2013
The Web is full of useful data analysis for small business professionals. It's all out there in a vast ocean of binary information just waiting to be fished out by the deft explorer.
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Op-Ed: New mortgage regulation positive for Puerto Rico
October 7, 2013
A new financial regulation defining “qualified mortgages” is due to take effect in January 2014. It would make the approval process for a mortgage stricter, both in the United States and Puerto Rico.
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REVIEW: Seaborne Airlines makes hop to Vieques easy
October 3, 2013
When you think about visiting Vieques to experience its pristine beaches and laid-back atmosphere, it’s hard not to want to get there — fast.
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‘Practical Techie:’ An office in our smartphone
October 1, 2013
The uproar for the new iPhone 5 has died down a bit, so we now sit back and take a calm look at how the new gadget — or rather, a retooled Apple smartphone — can help business folks be more productive in some practical ways.
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Practical Techie: Tech in Cuba ‘ready to go supernova’
September 24, 2013
No one knows when or how it will happen, but it when it does, U.S.-based companies that do tech commerce in the Caribbean will be ready.
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Op-Ed: Condado unites to block mega billboard
September 20, 2013
In an unprecedented show of unity, members from different sectors of the Condado community came together this week in an old fashion sit in, on the sidewalk opposite the newly renovated Vanderbilt Hotel, to protest the clandestine installation of a 60-foot high, 20-foot wide, multisided, illuminated, mega billboard in a parking lot in the heart of the "Fifth Avenue of Condado," Ashford Avenue.
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Practical Techie: Biz tech takes on new clothes
September 19, 2013
New technologies always climb on the shoulders of older, successful development. The next wave of inventiveness is already sprouting up all over the digital landscape, on a very worldwide scale.
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