News of technology

Coronavirus pandemic

Virus apps expose tension between privacy and need for data

28-05-2020 00:48 Track-and-trace technology is being touted as a silver bullet that will allow economies to reopen and people to emerge from home confinement, but many fear personal data will be abused for political or commercial gain – and even outright oppression in authoritarian states.

TEch giant

US trade office adds Amazon, Argentina, Chile to 'notorious markets' list

01-05-2020 12:50 US adds five of Amazon’s overseas operations, Chile and Argentina to its list of “notorious markets’’ where pirated goods are sold. E-commerce giant dismissed the move as part of the Trump administration's “personal vendetta'' against it.

Science and technology

Groundbreaking 'portable ultrasound' could revolutionise Argentina's healthcare

11-03-2020 12:04 Executives at the Butterfly Network, which designed the product, unveiled game-changing tech to students and faculty at the Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Buenos Aires on Monday.

by Joseph Charney

Bloomberg

Argentina’s Ualá app gets US$1-billion valuation in new financing round

26-11-2019 11:47 The mobile payments startup plans to use the funds to triple its team to over 500 employees by the end of next year, expand its loans product, and develop new business units.

BLOOMBERG – OPINION

MercadoLibre & Globant: the two homegrown firms defying the gloom

22-08-2019 09:56 MercadoLibre and Globant increased their worldwide workforces 30% and 31%, respectively, to 7,239 and 8,384 in 2018 when most of the nation’s employers were either letting people go or not hiring during the recession.

BLOOMBERG

Goldman's special situations group sets sights on Latam fintechs

12-07-2019 06:37 After helping a firm expand into one of Brazil’s largest credit-card issuers, the Goldman group says other startups can offer more financial services to a greater share of Latin America’s burgeoning population.

EDITORIAL

Sub-par funding for science cause for debate

06-07-2019 08:09 Rather than enter into this week’s round of the electoral hurly-burly, this editorial would like to step back and take a look at an area absolutely central to the world of the 21st century: science and technology.