Two local companies beat out about 3,000 competitors around the world to nab the distinction of being named Microsoft Partners of the Year, the software giant announced Wednesday.
OneLink Communications, the San Juan metropolitan area’s only cable television service provider, will be increasing its video service rate by $2.50 cents effective July 1, which for certain customers can represent a hike of close to 5 percent.
It’s no secret that most smartphones are robust in service, but often weak when it comes to enduring drops, water and on this tropical island, exposure to sand. To address all of those external challenges, Motorola and Claro teamed up to introduce to market the first mobile device capable of standing up to all them.
M. Scott Donahey, who for more than two decades has professionally mediated in Internet- and technology-related intellectual property disputes, will be on the island this week to offer a conference sponsored by the Internet Society of Puerto Rico.
The island’s persistently high unemployment rate dropped slightly to 16.2 percent in April, representing a 0.7 percentage point reduction from the 16.9 percent rate on record for the same month last year. When compared to March 2010, the current rate is also down, by 0.6 percentage points, Labor Department statistics released Thursday revealed.
Software giant Microsoft has reportedly been using three jurisdictions where it operates outside the United States — Puerto Rico, Ireland and Singapore — as tax shelters to reduce its federal tax bill, the Financial Times reported.
New York-based credit ratings agency Fitch Ratings affirmed Friday its “AAA” rating on the Puerto Rico Housing Finance Authority’s $191 million mortgage subsidy program single family mortgage revenue bonds.
The number of bankruptcy cases filed in May reflected a year-over-year 14 percent drop, with a total of 970 cases filed, research firm Boletín de Puerto Rico said Tuesday.
Washington, D.C.-based National Puerto Rican Coalition threw it support behind the proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile, asking the Federal Communications Commission in a letter Friday to approve the deal as it believes it will help to better meet the wireless needs of the Puerto Rican population on and off the island.
Critical Hub Networks, managing company of the Puerto Rico Bridge Initiative, announced Friday it has established peering with Facebook, Google, and Amazon. The interconnectivity agreement will enable direct data exchange among the networks, bypassing the Internet, for faster, more efficient and reliable services.
The benefits of being able to access work, entertainment and other digital content anywhere, anytime and on any device — the philosophy behind cloud computing — are already rippling through Puerto Rico’s consumer and business community.
Just seven months after flipping the switch on its 4G network, T-Mobile announced Thursday a $5 million network enhancement that duplicates theoretical peak speeds to 42 megabits per second, throughout a considerable footprint in Puerto Rico.
Five months after its stateside parent announced it, Sprint Puerto Rico officials confirmed the upcoming local launch of its 4G Network Vision blueprint to deploy a cost-effective, innovative network plan to further enhance voice quality and data speeds for customers across the United States. When available, Sprint’s Network Vision is expected to consolidate multiple network […]
The competitiveness level among the island’s wireless carriers, which never seems to take a break, is peaking again this week as four of the five industry players turn to the media to announce new devices and services.
President Barack Obama’s visit to the island in about three weeks will be brief, but will mark nearly half a century since John F. Kennedy’s visit in 1961. That was the last time the island, a U.S. jurisdiction, welcomed a sitting U.S. president. On June 14, Obama will lead members of the White House Task […]
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