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June 30, 2009

The Illinois Hispanic Entrepreneurship Center Awards Business Grant to GiveForward.org

June 29, 2009

65% of whites, 51% of African-Americans and 44% of Hispanics searched for health information according to eMarketer

US-Based Web Site Targets Legal Marketing at US Hispanics in Their Native Language

Social media connecting with Hispanic market

June 26, 2009

Billboard recently launched billboardcanciones.com, a Spanish/English music store tailored to the diverse U.S. Latino population. The site features more than 100,000 Latin tracks

“The majority of the US Hispanic population is bilingual, and they decide where and when to speak English and Spanish,” says Ms. Phillips. “Marketers should execute campaigns and offerings in both languages,” explains Ms. Phillips. “The efforts will not go unnoticed, as English-dominant speakers will still see and appreciate messages targeted to them in Spanish, and Spanish-dominant speakers will know the advertiser is serious about addressing them.”

Hispanics Online: No Más E-Barrios - eMarketer estimates that this year there will be nearly 23 million Hispanics online, over 50% of the US Hispanic population.

10 Things You Should Know About U.S. Hispanics - (mostly internet related)

Looking at Hispanic Behavior Online - Interview with Dr. Felipe Korzenny - Director of the Center for Hispanic Marketing Communication, Florida State University

Perez Hilton’s Despicable Michael Jackson Coverage Creates Backlash

June 25, 2009

Latinos and Twitter

AOL Video Search Site Truveo Relaunches In 17 Nations; Lands Deal With Univision

What is Next for MySpace Spanish Language Versions in the U.S. and Latin America?

Consultant, speaker and…Twittero? Interview with Matt Reyes

Latina Style and Doctor.com launch Latina Style “Find a Doctor” - Healthcare API launched to give users faster results when seeking a Doctor

June 24, 2009

Hispanic online growth surpasses mainstream

Feldman Furniture Launches Bilingual e-Commerce Site to Reach Hispanic Customer Base

Top 100 Most Common Last Names On Facebook -(7th Rodriguez 328,984) (8th Garcia 311,477) (9th Gonzalez 277,987) (10th Lopez 269,896) (11th Martinez 260,526) (13th Perez 239,264) = 1,688,134

June 23, 2009

viaLanguage Presents Webinar - ‘How to Tap into the Latino Market’ on July 9

Web surfers all over the world can now buy printed copies of 85 works from among the 18,000 available at the Biblioteca Digital Hispanica (Hispanic Digital Library) thanks to a new print-on-demand service.

June 22, 2009

With a new webcast, Andres Oppenheimer expanding his reach

Ser Padres Joins Forces with la Doctora Aliza’s VidaySalud.com to Offer the Hispanic Community Unprecedented Online Health-Related Content in Spanish

Has the New York Daily News abandoned their “en Español” portal page? It hasn’t been updated since May 15th

#Vivaviernes! and Other Things Latinos Do Online

June 20, 2009

Latino blogger/journalist Tim Chavez has passed away

June 18, 2009

Manny Miravete, VP US Hispanic Sales Strategy at Fox Interactive Media, where he spearheaded the MySpace Latino unit, is no longer with the company.

Amazing Course of English on YouTube Teaches Successfully to Thousands of People

June 17, 2009

Social Network Pulling an ‘American Idol’: Quepasa.com is Voting Hub for International Singing Contest

June 11, 2009

Yahoo! En Espanol Reveals the Most POPular Searches for May

Fernando Monedero: “Social Networks and Video Advertising offer big Opportunities to engage Latin Consumers”

Fiction series on Mara Salvatrucha wins Webby Award - “The Ten Commandments of la Vida Loca”

June 8, 2009

Spanish-language TV network Univision says ¡hola! to e-commerce

June 5, 2009

VidaySalud.com :: Univision’s Doctora Aliza Launches VidaySalud.com(TM)

June 4, 2009

National Council of La Raza Viral Sites Turn Social Networking into Social Action

Quepasa Corporation Informs Nasdaq of Its Intention to Voluntarily Delist From Nasdaq in Order to Focus on Growth Initiatives

Pennsylvania Department of Health Launches Spanish-Language Smoking Cessation Resource Web Site

Utah Latinos can find tips for recognizing and preventing strokes at a new Web site offered in Spanish by the Utah Department of Health.

El regreso de Guy Ecker - Lanzará la webnovela “Vidas Cruzadas” al lado de Kate del Castillo

New Sonia Sotomayor website put out by MALDEF

June 3, 2009

Eventos Sin Fronteras Spanish-English Newspaper now online - Minnesota

June 1, 2009

Where Is Hispanic TV on Web?

May 31, 2009

HablaLibre Publishing Releases the First Point-and-Click System for Hispanics to Build and Manage Internet Businesses in Their Own Language

May 29, 2009

LatinoLA Internships: Do You Have What It Takes? LatinoLA offering two internships for Summer 2009

Cada vez más hispanos optan por estudiar en la red

May 14, 2009

Twitter is a Popular Social Tool for U.S. Hispanics at SusOpiniones.com - PR.com

May 7, 2009

Ford Joins Forces with Essence Magazine and AOL Latino on Initiatives Aimed at Empowering Multicultural Women

April 27, 2009

Mexico City-based English-speaking bloggers/media help keep us all informed about swine flu epidemic

Thoughts on new media in the Dominican Republic

April 20, 2009

Batanga, Inc. Raises Series D Financing to Expand Its Ad Network in the U.S. and Latin America

April 14, 2009

LIVIER PRODUCTIONS, INC. ANNOUNCES SECOND SEASON OF WEB SERIES HIT, YLSE

April 13, 2009

YouTube riddled with drug cartel videos, messages - The violence among Mexican drug cartels is not filling just the streets of Mexican border towns: It’s also spilling into gruesome online videos and chat rooms.

April 9, 2009

Court: your MySpace page isn’t private - A college student’s rant against her small town provoked such intense backlash that her family had to move—but a California court has ruled that you can’t cry “invasion of privacy” when people circulate what you’ve posted to your MySpace page. - the Cynthia Moreno story

April 8, 2009

Adoption of broadband, digital downloads high. More US Hispanics are going online than ever before, and most are using broadband.

April 3, 2009

Austin anchor Fred Cantú runs online Mexico media directory

April 2, 2009

Espanol.VEGAS.com Reveals Tourism Preferences of Spanish-Speaking Travelers to Las Vegas

March 25, 2009

Hispanics 211% More Likely to Download Digital Content

The scoop on Hispanics on the web - They’ve been slower to go online but they’re catching up

March 21, 2009

New report draws a distinction between Latinos online and the “average Hispanic” - Does an average Hispanic even exist?

March 19, 2009

Market Intelligence: 7 Questions About Social Networking Sites Targeting Latinos

Hispanic Internet Users are Avid Downloaders of Digital Content and Aggressively Adopting Broadband

March 18, 2009

Google News to host EFE, which services Spain and Latin America, with ads alongside

March 17, 2009

Batanga Enhances Online Music Experience with Pluck Integrated Social Media Tools

March 16, 2009

Colombian Blogs Use Acid Humor to Reflect Nation’s Polarization

March 15, 2009

For the sake of transparency: up-to-date demographic and traffic info for HispanicTips now available

Memphis Hispanics utilizing Web - Area businesses use sites to target growing market

March 11, 2009

What Does the Growth of Hispanic Online Video Advertising Mean?

Verizon Launches Spanish-Language Web Site

March 10, 2009

The Miami Herald’s online Cuba page now displays a special Dissident Voices section contains reports from non-government sources on the island.

AOL Latino Launches TecnoPadres.com

Yahoo! En Espanol Reveals the Most POPular Searches for February

Bebo on Monday launched a Latino version of the US social networking website as the Internet service owned by America On Line strives to gain ground in a market led by Facebook and MySpace.

March 4, 2009

The Market’s Reaction to the Socially Inclined E-Latino

The Market’s Recognition of Hispanics Online

February 16, 2009

Twitter for Business (En español) - Usando Twitter para los Negocios

February 13, 2009

Univision: YouTube’s Most Pirated Broadcast TV Network

AOL Latino has relaunched, offering access to outside sites and services including Yahoo and Google’s Gmail as well as social networks Facebook, MySpace and Bebo

February 8, 2009

La Plaza: Fluent in Spanish-Language Media - Alejandro Lazo’s weekly blog-within-a-blog on the region’s Latino business community; The Washington Post is calling it “La Plaza.”

February 1, 2009

Yahoo! unveils newly rebranded Yahoo! en Español

Voces Bolivianas Makes “Web 2.0 for Everyone”

January 28, 2009

Career Path: How I Became an Ethnocentric Digital Marketer - Alicia Morga

January 26, 2009

Terra Launches Atom Project in U.S. and Latin America

January 21, 2009

Obama’s Immigration agenda on new WhiteHouse.gov’s website

2009: The Year For Hispanic Marketing Online

Mashable en Español

Mashable Launches Spanish Edition

December 29, 2008

CPM rates for Hispanic Magazines with comparison to HispanicTips

December 23, 2008

Spanish-based Grupo Excelencias teamed with the communist government to create mallhabana.com, designed to let Cubans in the United States and elsewhere around the world use U.S. dollars to buy gifts for relatives here.

December 22, 2008

Founders of latinoteca.com wanted to create a site where teachers, students and others interested in Latino culture could find what they needed.

Database of Cuban exiles rekindles memories - A Miami Herald database of Cuban exiles arriving on the Freedom Flights has attracted thousands of visitors and struck a chord with exiles.

Web offers murky messages on Cuidad Juárez violence

December 19, 2008

Nearly 2 million hits on a Web site that allows anyone anywhere to become a virtual border deputy resulted in one drug bust and reports of about a half-dozen illegal border crossings in the last month, officials said Tuesday.

Hispanic Digital Network (HDN) Expands Premiere Online Marketing Expertise to Digital Advertisers with Two Key Appointments - Tony Hernandez and Lou Ramirez, to its Hispanic online advertising sales force

December 18, 2008

Online Marketers Wooing Minorities More - As Internet use among Latinos, African Americans, and Asian Americans rises, advertisers are beginning to take notice

Paraguay’s Internet Market Monopoly Continues

Online Magazine Trains Latino Students to be Journalists - Borderzine, a bilingual online magazine launched by the University of Texas at El Paso

December 16, 2008

I just noticed that the Spanish-Language newspaper Hoy’s website finally changed over to ViveloHoy.com and has dropped HispanicTips’ content

Hispanic Tech Pioneers Forge New Marketing Models - (featuring me, !!!)

December 15, 2008

Univision lathers cyber-soap opera - Endemol partners in online ‘Vidas’ venture

PBS’ ‘Chávez’ Web Debut Proves Profitable - Frontline documentary on Venezualan leader a bilingual hit online - (video, Hugo Chavez)

December 12, 2008

AOL Latino’s coverage of the fight between Oscar de la Hoya and Manny Pacquiao on December 6 drew nearly 200,000 visitors