Heading South - More entrepreneurs discover Latin America

Jon Morris, chief executive officer of Rise Interactive, a 15-person Internet advertising company in Chicago, shifted his outsourced design and Web development staff from India to Costa Rica in 2005. He still attracted highly skilled computer people for far lower salaries than he would pay in the U.S. And he no longer has to deal with the 11 1/2-hour time difference between India and the Chicago offices of his $2.5 million company. Now Morris is hiring full-time staff there, including senior account executives. "It's been great on so many levels," says Morris. "It's the quality of work, the lack of a time zone difference, the proximity. I'm beyond ecstatic." In my latest book I complained about the fact that Europe does not see Latin Americas (LATAM) as a good marketplace. I have and will build a business where LATAM is a major part of. No question about it!

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The trouble with Steve Jobs - interesting review of Steve Jobs and his career the past 25 years

CNN Online released an interesting article about Steve Jobs and his value to Apple. Jobs likes to make his own rules, whether the topic is computers, stock options, or even pancreatic cancer. The same traits that make him a great CEO drive him to put his company, and his investors, at risk.By Peter Elkind, editor at large Apple CEO Steve Jobs mingled with the faithful at this year's Macworld Expo. Steve jobs is full of passion and I have read most of the books written about him. This article sheds some additional light on the past 5 years.

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Ballmer Outlines Vision For Next Computing Revolution

HANOVER, GERMANY -- ChannelWeb reports in its recent article The rise of PCs, graphical user interfaces, the Internet, and MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer, the computing revolution that's about to take place will tie up all the loose ends from previous ones. There are fundamental changes going on in the software ecosystem and these changes are also impacting Microsoft and Steve Ballmer is outlining the the forces behind the changes: computing power in the hands of users, expansion of storage technology, access to wireless networks and renewal of user interface technology. I have to say that my own use of technology is changing and my HSPDA wireless connection, my very portable Dell XPS M1330 laptop has impacted my virtual working tremendonsly.

Microsoft To Offer Online Services To Businesses Of All Sizes

Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) will make its Microsoft Online Services available to businesses of all sizes, the company announced Monday based on a ChannelWeb web news bulletin, possibly bringing it into conflict with channel partners who resell Microsoft's Web-hosted applications to small and midsize businesses. Monday Microsoft also unveiled Web-hosted versions of its Exchange Server 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 collaboration applications in a move that's sure to step up the competition with software-as-a-service products offered by Internet rivals Google and Yahoo (NSDQ:YHOO). The competition is heating up and this will be good for the customers. Another article apperead in eWeek Channel Insider where the discussion is questioning how the channel partners will be impacted of these new offerings. The software business models are changing and we need to be reflective to these changes and adjust our businesses accordingly. If we rely the market to go as we want it to go, we are for sure going to loose.

What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart?

I recent article by Wall Street Journal explains why Finnish kids rank among the top in international tests. It was very nice to read specifically as the country of my origin is getting so much attention in the educational system.