BLACKPINK playing Coachella dance tent in 2019. (Photo: Timothy Norris/Getty Images for Coachella) The lineup for this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival — North America’s largest music fest, with 125,000 attendees per day — has finally been announced. And it’s a historic bill, the most diverse to date: For the first time since the festival launched in 1999, a Latin music artist and a K-pop act will be headlining. Those headliners, Puerto Rican trap/reggaeton superstar… Source link
Read More »Google to invest $1.2B in Latin America
Google will invest $1.2 billion over five years in Latin America to support digital investment and skills, CEO Sundar Pichai announced Thursday. Why it matters: The investment shows Latin America’s increasing importance as a market for digital growth. Driving the news: In a blog post, Pichai said the funding will be used for digital infrastructure, online training programs, and supporting start-ups and nonprofits. Google, which is building a subsea cable that will run from the U.S. to Argentina… Source link
Read More »Google to build new undersea cable to connect Latin America and the U.S.
The logo of Google is seen on a building at La Defense business and financial district in Courbevoie near Paris, France, September 1, 2020. REUTERS/Charles Platiau Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google said on Wednesday it was building an undersea cable that would connect the United States, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, to bolster internet connection capacity between these regions. The cable, called Firmina, will be the longest cable in the world, Google said in a blog post, adding that it will… Source link
Read More »Google Cloud lands its largest Latin America deal, with media powerhouse Grupo Globo
Over the past year, Google Cloud has focused its strategy in great part on pursuing media customers undergoing a digital transformation. On Wednesday, Alphabet’s GOOGL, +0.88% GOOG, +0.70% Google Cloud division said it landed its biggest deal yet in Latin America, a seven-year strategic partnership with Brazil’s largest media company, Grupo Globo, a privately-held, multibillion-dollar giant that is in the midst of a… Source link
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