Affordable Brazilian airline Azul teams up with Brazilian startup Superplayer, allowing passengers to stream music in the air. The music streaming service was launched in 2013, just a year before Spotify officially launched in Brazil. Co-founder and software engineer Cássio Goldschmidt devised the idea of an online music catalogue whilst working on a project in
If Blockchain is the future, could it save the Earth too? Last week, The Economist published a video about how blockchain technology could help save the Amazon forest. The video shows that through encryption, the world could maintain a traceable digital fingerprint of every living creature in the Amazon. The Amazon Bank of Codes is
Brazilian startup Yellow has acquired a seed funding of $9 million for its dockless bike-sharing service; the first of its kind in Brazil. Yellow was founded by Ariel Lambrecht and Renato Freitas, who are also the co-Founders of 99, along with Eduardo Musa, the former owner and CEO of Brazilian bike manufacturer Caloi. “As local
Papumba, an educational company that creates child-learning apps for mobile devices, has recently announced the launch of Papumba Academy, a mobile Pre-School Academy designed to help kids under 6 learn while playing. The app provides a Play-based early-learning curriculum designed to unlock a child’s potential while playing and exploring, encouraging young ones to enjoy the processes of
April 12 and 13 are the dates that Bogotá will host Foro 3C ‘KineTICa empresarial: la fuerza del cambio’ a conference on a concept that companies are looking to adopt more and more in the face of rapid change. Such companies understand that constant evolution is important in order to progress in sync with the times
In recent years, Chile has been recognized as a country rapidly ascending the global startup scene, along with a small number of other South American countries such as Peru. One reason for this surge in popularity is the country’s enviable selection of accelerators, one of which is the rising accelerator, Imagine Lab, which is helping
Microsoft Argentina announces Imagine Cup 2018, the global student competition for innovation and tech project development, that provides a platform to help young students from around the world convert their ideas into a startup.
The Chinese company Huawei is looking for eight young Colombians to train up in 5G technology at its headquarters in Shenzhen, China. The objective is that the chosen few can apply what they’ve learned in their native country. The open application process is part of the Huawei’s social responsibility program called Semillas del Futuro, which has
Acelerar España begin taking applications tomorrow for their accelerator program in Madrid in the bid to support upcoming Argentine entrepreneurs. An initiative by the Cámara Empresarial Argentina en España (CEAES), a non-profit institute that seeks to give Argentine startups a leg up, the second installment of Acelerar España will pick up where they left off
Cryptocurrency start-ups in Chile are facing yet another hurdle as individual banks take a hard line against cryptocurrency exchanges. BancoEstado, Scotiabank and Itaú have become the latest institutions to demonstrate a lack of faith in the digital currency. The most recent operator to fall victim to strict banking policies was Santiago-based CryptoMKT, who were told