News of digital

Mercado Libre denounces Argentina's banks for ‘cartelisation’

27-08-2024 11:13 Giant fintech and e-commerce firm files complaint with CNDC competition watchdog accusing 36 banks of acting like a “cartel” with its MODO digital wallet service.

ECONOMY

Argentina’s reign of cash tips nears its end amid a fintech boom

10-08-2024 15:31 Tips are finally going digital in Argentina thanks to both a boom in financial technology.

POLITICS

Milei names X user ‘Juan Doe’ as his digital communications director

04-06-2024 17:05 The position of Juan Pablo Carreira, a renowned libertarian activist, was finalised through a decree signed by the President and Cabinet chief Guillermo Francos.

INTERVIEW WITH WORLDCOIN BOSS

Alex Blania: ‘In the next few years, thousands of humans will fall deeply in love with an AI’

10-05-2024 12:51 The CEO of Tools for Humanity, the company behind Worldcoin, on technology and ethics, Artificial Intelligence and the use of private data.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

HUMAN RIGHTS

Young activists call on states, tech firms to uphold digital rights

23-04-2024 18:01 Amnesty International’s Global Youth Summit convenes in Buenos Aires as rights campaigners discuss intricacies of life online.

by Girah Lundy-Joseph

DIGITAL CURRENCIES

Massa’s ‘digital peso’ – what’s the proposal and how would it work?

04-10-2023 16:05 Sergio Massa, Argentina's economy minister and presidential candidate for Unión por la Patria, has announced that he will implement a digital Argentine currency if elected. The proposal is based on a bill that first emerged in 2019 – but what does it say?

CURRENCY WOES

In distorted Buenos Aires rental market, it's dollar vs peso

02-06-2023 10:15 Renting in pesos and on a long-term basis is a titanic task in the capital, where temporary and dollar-denominated supply dominates the market.

BOOKS & LITERATURE

Inflation woes reach book publishers as the price of paper surges

27-05-2023 06:31 Small publishers at the Buenos Aires International Book Fair discuss the challenges of coping with runaway inflation; Resistant readers help literary houses to survive crisis.

by Api Dhadda

NEWS MEDIA & JOURNALISM

A day of reckoning for journalism in the age of polarisation

25-02-2023 06:22 We live in a post-modern world where trust for traditional institutions has been receding for quite some time. When it comes to journalism there are no doubts that we are in the midst of a crisis that goes beyond the economic situation of news publishers, broadcasters, and radio stations.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

BLOOMBERG

Billionaire-backed Ualá launches ‘star product’ in Mexico

14-02-2023 14:35 Argentina’s Ualá, the fintech company backed by George Soros, Steve Cohen and Tencent Holdings, will begin offering credit cards in Mexico through its alliance with ABC Capital.

News of digital

Mercado Libre denounces Argentina's banks for ‘cartelisation’

Argentina’s reign of cash tips nears its end amid a fintech boom

Milei names X user ‘Juan Doe’ as his digital communications director

Alex Blania: ‘In the next few years, thousands of humans will fall deeply in love with an AI’

Young activists call on states, tech firms to uphold digital rights

Massa’s ‘digital peso’ – what’s the proposal and how would it work?

In distorted Buenos Aires rental market, it's dollar vs peso

Inflation woes reach book publishers as the price of paper surges

A day of reckoning for journalism in the age of polarisation

Billionaire-backed Ualá launches ‘star product’ in Mexico

Stories that caught our eye: December 13 to 20

Argentina takes steps to speed up Milei’s dollarisation strategy

Colombia offers to safeguard Maduro foes at Argentina's Embassy as stand-off deepens

Milei, Caputo increasing bullish as they outline new IMF deal timeline

IMF in talks with Argentina on loan to succeed US$44-billion deal

Sin moratoria previsional en 2025, aseguran que sólo 1 de cada 10 mujeres podrá jubilarse

Uno de los asilados en la Embajada argentina en Caracas se entregó a la justicia chavista

Culiao: para investigador del Conicet la campaña de Córdoba Turismo "merece un aplauso"

El canciller Gerardo Werthein intimó a la periodista Natasha Niebieskikwiat: "Es un caso de censura previa"

Argentina producirá café por primera vez en su historia: ¿Cómo fue posible hacerlo?