Puerto Rico Blockchain Trade Assoc. to host Blockchain Week, Dec. 6-12
September 20, 2021
The Puerto Rico Blockchain Trade Association (PRBTA), in collaboration with Metaverso, CoinAgenda Caribbean, Limitless, and Invest PR announced the first edition of “Puerto Rico Blockchain Week” to take place Dec. 6-12 in San Juan. During the week, attendees will have the opportunity to connect via various events such as workshops, meetings and meet ups with […]
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CNE: Puerto Rico economy dealing with 3 ‘systemic shocks’
September 16, 2021
Puerto Rico’s short term economic performance is “overshadowed by a large cloud of uncertainty,” as the island’s government concurrently addresses the impacts of three systemic shocks: the COVID-19 pandemic; Hurricane María; and the central government’s bankruptcy, said Sergio Marxuach, Center for a New Economy’s Policy Director and Editor of the think tank’s publication: The CNE […]
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Science Trust, ISACA unveil new certification in emerging technologies
September 15, 2021
The Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust in agreement with the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) announced it will offer for the first time a professional certificate in emerging technologies. The session provides training, practice, and examination in emerging sectors such as cloud, IoT technology, blockchain and artificial intelligence. This certificate is […]
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Retaining, luring back talent ‘key’ to making Puerto Rico ideal tech destination
September 14, 2021
Puerto Rico has a “significant need” to retain its existing human talent and to find ways to lure back those who have left, to guarantee its place among the world’s ideal innovation and technological destinations, several private-sector representatives who are either entrepreneurs or help those who are up-and-coming, agreed. During a panel discussion on the […]
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Estudios Técnicos: ‘Drastic increase in freight rates should force rethinking’
September 9, 2021
The dramatic increase in international maritime freight rates, which was triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, should force a rethinking of cabotage laws and the issue of food self-sufficiency in Puerto Rico. That is the assessment presented by Economist José Joaquín Villamil, CEO of Estudios Técnicos Inc., in the firm’s publication, “ETI Trends.” “Since the onset […]
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Practical Techie: Chatbots, voice helpers to make a quick sale
September 8, 2021
A slick way of attracting traffic to an e-commerce website is to create small virtual social adventures for the visitor. Describe a product in your social pages in the most entertaining way possible and create a challenge. It’s all about a little communicational creativity and a small dose of digital magic. One available high-tech tool […]
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Amazon Web Services bets on cloud tech for Puerto Rico’s digital transformation
September 7, 2021
Amazon’s cloud computing company, Amazon Web Services (AWS), plans to continue applying data analytics and cloud computing to develop the economy and create education and natural disasters response programs in Puerto Rico, officials told News is my Business. Abby Daniell, public sector program manager AWS in Latin America, Canada, and the Caribbean, said in an […]
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US Census shows Puerto Rico’s population is ‘fewer, older’
September 3, 2021
The population trends in Puerto Rico reflected in the latest 2020 Census report will require the government to adopt strategies and policies to address a population situation very different from the one that has characterized the island. Furthermore, there are fewer people living on the island and in this reduced population, the older cohorts have […]
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Software engineering firm INVID’s 3-yr. growth centers on local, nearshore services
August 31, 2021
Puerto Rican software engineering firm INVID, founded in 2003, has upheld its growth curve for the past three years with services offered to local and nearshore companies — in the US mainland — in need of custom software to solve business challenges. Alberto Lugo, president of INVID, said while 2020 was a “very challenging year, […]
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Practical Techie: Set up a virtual showroom for your wares
August 31, 2021
Any commerce page on the web must sell well. It has no other use. Convert visitors into customers. Ensuring this functionality requires basic design strategies, superb content, and certain artistic magic, like that of top showcase decorators in real stores. BROWSE — The first approach is to ensure navigability. The word “browse” is used in […]
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Foundation for Puerto Rico donates $200K in telecom equipment to nonprofits
August 30, 2021
As part of the initiatives to promote resilience in the island’s communities, the Foundation for Puerto Rico, through its Bottom Up Destination Recovery Initiative (Bottom Up) program, has delivered more than $200,000 in telecommunications equipment to more than 100 local nonprofit organizations and municipal agencies. The entities are in the regions that the Bottom Up […]
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FCC grants $1.8M in telehealth program awards to 2 Puerto Rico providers
August 27, 2021
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has awarded some $1.8 million in funding to two Puerto Rico-based healthcare service providers to jumpstart their telehealth initiatives, the federal agency announced. The Med Centro Healthcare System in Ponce was awarded $909,391 to finance network improvements and buy connected devices, such as laptops and tablets, to implement a telehealth […]
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Practical Techie: The reasons for good artificial intelligence
August 25, 2021
Cyber technology runs on the formidable sap of artificial intelligence (AI). This information revolution stems from an early 20th-century scientific premise that machines can think almost the same as humans, provided they are designed with proper artificial neurons. That is, ultrafast microchips that decode machine language. Recently, AI migrated to web marketing to give greater […]
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Practical Techie: High tech supports back-to-school amid persistent pandemic
August 17, 2021
As thousands of students return to the classroom amid this last pandemic semester of 2021, the new mixed reality of transferring knowledge from teacher to students via online or a physical classroom makes learning and teaching more challenging than ever before. This year’s reality is a hybrid live and virtual flow of lessons, an […]
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Puerto Rico ranks #4 in Americas for best value-for-money on mobile data speeds
August 16, 2021
Puerto Rico has taken the #4 spot in a ranking of jurisdictions in the Americas that offer the best value-for-money to consumers for their mobile broadband speeds, according to an analysis generated by Speedcheck, an international organization dedicated to tracking data speeds. The island placed behind the continental United States, Chile, and Argentina, with average […]
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