Marketing Latinos Podcast Episode Week of April 5, 2010

In this episode, I talk about mobile technology and Google. More specifically, I talk about Eric Schmidt’s keynote in Abu Dhabi and what I think it means for us. Social Bookmarking

Eric Schmidt – ADMS Keynote: Mobile Is Where Innovation Is

CNN of course, completely misses the point of the entire presentation. They focus on the lamest parts of the presentation instead of on the real meat of the presentation. CNN focuses on the advertising aspects of what he said, completely missing the part about mobile phones being the primary gateway to the internet for a [...]

SXSWi 2010 Hank Wasiak 140Conf Presentation

Yes, I still have video from South by that I have not posted yet. Mostly because the videos are too long for youtube and otherwise too big to upload to other video sharing sites. This was one of those videos. This guy named Hank Wasiak used to work at the ad agency featured in the [...]

Latin American Airlines Project Combined $800 Million Profit in 2010

Interestingly, Reuters reports that the person that made the prediction, IATA Director-General Giovanni Bisignani, also predicts North American airlines will lose $1.8 Billion in 2010. The most interesting thing about this report is that it flies in the face of the commonly held belief that Latin American companies are somehow less efficient, or run in a [...]

Joanna Shields Joins Facebook as Head of EMEA

Joanna Shields, who was instrumental in Bebo’s sale to AOL for $850 million in 2008 has joined Facebook as head of EMEA operations. Technically, she’ll be vice-president of sales and business development for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Photo Credit: AIB London The current vp of EMEA, Blake Chandlee, was the first Facebook employee [...]