CitaMed.net, a start-up company that offers a fully automated medical appointment confirmation service for doctors appointments and other healthcare-related visits walked away as this year’s winner of the eighth annual edition of the “EnterPRize” business plan competition, sponsored by Grupo Guayacán.
The backlash generated in response to recent comments made by puppeteer Antulio “Kobo” Santarrosa through his television show “SuperXclusivo” and female alter-ego “La Comay” about a gruesome murder that took place over the weekend could take a significant bite out of WAPA TV’s (Ch. 4) advertising revenue, as a handful of its major corporate sponsors pulled their ads from the prime-time slot Wednesday.
U.S. foundations awarded 263 grants totaling $10.5 million between 2007 and 2009 to recipient organizations in Puerto Rico. But despite the island’s higher poverty rate, stateside foundations gave proportionally less to the territory compared to some states with a similar number of Latinos, according to the “Foundation Funding for Hispanics/Latinos in the U.S. and for Latin America,” study conducted by Hispanics in Philanthropy.