Hispanic

When Attrition Attacks: Yahoo’s Latin America Head Departs

Kara Swisher in News on September 26, 2011 at 3:17 pm PT

Guilherme Ribenboim, VP and managing director of Latin America and U.S. Hispanic markets, has left Yahoo for another job at a start-up.

CafeMom Launches Daily Deals and Plans Hispanic Moms Site

Kara Swisher in News on May 4, 2011 at 5:27 am PT

CafeMom, a social-networking and community site aimed at mothers, is expanding its offerings to daily deals, as well as announcing an anticipated launch of a site aimed at Hispanic moms. The deals site has just been launched under the killer URL of Mom.com.

Twitter Is So Mainstream Now: Eight Percent of Online Americans Use It

Liz Gannes in Social on December 9, 2010 at 12:20 am PT

Young, urban, minority, women, well-educated. What do these demographic factors spell out? The categories of American Internet users who are most likely to use Twitter. That’s according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.

Wonderwall Goes Latino

Kara Swisher in News on October 16, 2010 at 12:46 am PT

Hola Sofia Vergara! In an interesting brand extension, the popular celebrity and entertainment site Wonderwall has launched a version aimed at the U.S. Hispanic market called Wonderwall Latino. The main Wonderwall site, which is a partnership between Hollywood production company BermanBraun and Microsoft’s MSN portal that launched in early 2009, now has 11.3 million unique users and 337 million page views a month.

Chill Out! Obama Doesn’t Hate Your iPad.

Peter Kafka in Media on May 10, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

The President of the United States suggests that perhaps technology distracts us from…sorry, I lost my train of thought there–was just thinking about the new iPhone. Anyway, there are words and stuff. Also, video!

If It's Tuesday, It Must Be the National Broadband Plan–If Your Connection Isn't Too Slow, You Can Tune In Online

Kara Swisher in News on March 11, 2010 at 11:33 am PT

Finally, after much advance leakage, the Federal Communications Commission will unveil its National Broadband Plan on Tuesday, March 16. The two key questions about the effort to get the United States up to speed, so to speak, with decent digital access: Will it be toothless or not and will there be any money to pay for it, given the cash-strapped federal government? And, of course, will the greedy telecoms quash the plan if it is too helpful to consumers?

New FCC Report: Reaching the “Digitally Distant,” but “Digital Hopefuls” Too (We’ll Ask Chairman Genachowski About It and More at D8)

Kara Swisher in D8 on February 23, 2010 at 4:42 am PT

There is a new report out today by the Federal Communications Commission about high-speed access in the U.S., with all sorts of lovely data. It is all part of an effort by the FCC to ferret away on a plan to get Americans better hooked up to the Internet. Part of a newish government push to digitize this country, it will be spearheaded by Chairman Julius Genachowski, who is now coming to D8, so we can ask him all about it.

New FCC Report: Reaching the "Digitally Distant," but "Digital Hopefuls" Too (We'll Ask Chairman Genachowski About It and More at D8)

Kara Swisher in News on February 23, 2010 at 4:42 am PT

There is a new report out today by the Federal Communications Commission about high-speed access in the U.S., with all sorts of lovely data. It is all part of an effort by the FCC to ferret away on a plan to get Americans better hooked up to the Internet. Part of a newish government push to digitize this country, it will be spearheaded by Chairman Julius Genachowski, who is now coming to D8, so we can ask him all about it.

YouTube, Univision and Google: The Three Amigos

John Paczkowski in News on November 16, 2009 at 10:05 am PT

Univision, home to Spanish-language TV staples “Sabado Gigante,” “El Show de Cristina” and “Tormenta en el Paraiso,” is coming to YouTube. This morning, the Spanish-language media outfit announced a deal that will see its programming featured on Google’s video site.