Instagram launches Notes, its AIM-like text status feature, in Europe and Japan, delayed to comply with local laws, expanding on Asia, North America, and LatAm
Jay Peters / The Verge :
Some tech workers in Latin America advocate for Spanish-language training and a Spanish programming language, even as the best IT jobs still require English
Non-English speaking devs are getting more coding jobs than ever — but Spanish can only get them so far. — • MEXICO CITY, MEXICO Tweets: @anupkaphle , @leomschwartz , @restofworld , @leomschwartz , ...
Pomelo, which was founded earlier this year to make fintech-as-a-service infrastructure for LatAm businesses, raises a $35M Series A led by Tiger Global
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch :
Many LatAm migrant workers in the US are using crypto to send money home; crypto exchange Bitso says it processes $1B+ per year in US remittances sent to Mexico
When traditional exchanges closed during the pandemic, many workers turned to crypto to send remittances home. — • ACAPULCO, MEXICO Tweets: @gquaggiotto , @restofworld , @blackamazon , @apompliano ,...
Research: startups in Latin America raised $4.1B across 488 deals in 2020, a new annual record for the total number of venture capital deals there
and in some cases due to — the pandemic. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Daniel Cancel / @dancancel : LatAm startups signed record number of funding deals in 2020. Nubank now worth $25B, Rappi at least ...
Source: ~40%, or 40M, of Disney+ subscribers are in the US, and Disney has said 30% are in India, so Europe and LatAm seem to make up less than a third of subs
Netflix shares detailed overseas subscriber numbers for the first time in a filing, and says 90% of total subscriber growth came from outside the US since 2017
U.S. and Canada highest at $13.08 for Q3 2019 (+32% compared with two years earlier), followed by EMEA at $10.40 (+12%), Asia-Pacific at $9.29 (+2%) and LatAm at $8.63 (+5%). https://variety.com/... @...