BigBand Networks Inc.(COMPANY NEWS)(contracts with Cablevision
Mexico)(Brief Article)
BigBand Networks, Inc, provider of network platforms for video,
voice and data services, announced that Mexico's largest cable
operator Cablevision had deployed BigBand Distributed VOD to . . .
Comarco Wireless Test Solutions.(COMPANY NEWS)(contrcats with
Telcel Mexico)(Brief Article)
Comarco Wireless Test Solutions announced that TelCel had purchased
35 Comarco Seven. Five(TM) Duo's for GSM, GPRS and EDGE to support
activities in all nine regions of Mexico.
compiled by Cindy . . .
Cemex S.A. de C.V.(COMPANY NEWS)(donations)(Brief
Article)
Cemex, S.A. de C.V. announced it was going to donate US$3 million
to the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) and SOS
Children's Villages as part of the tsunami relief effort in Asia.
US$2.1 . . .
FACT Corporation.(COMPANY NEWS)(distribution contracts with
Productos Gabi S.A. de C.V.)(Brief Article)
FACT Corporation, a nutrition solutions company providing
high-fiber, low-glycemic dough mixes for commercial manufacturers,
announced it was working with Productos Gabi, S.A. de C.V. on . . .
Airline sell-off blasted.(NEW BUSINESS)(Mexican Airline
Pilots' Union )(Brief Article)
The Mexican Airline Pilots' Union (ASPA) has criticized the
proposed sell-off of Mexico's two main airlines, asserting that the
carriers' problems won't be resolved by the action, The
Associated . . .
Debt restructured.(NEW BUSINESS)(Corporacion Durango)(Brief
Article)
Mexico's largest paper company restructured more than US$800
million in unsecured debt under the nation's new Business
Reorganization Act, The South Florida Business Journal reported.
The Miami . . .
Dollar falls below 11 pesos.(NEW BUSINESS)(Brief Article)
The U.S. currency fell below 11 pesos for the first time in a year
in early March, as global investors continued to show their confidence
in the largest Latin American economy. Remittances also . . .
Levi's to pay US$45 million.(NEW BUSINESS)(Brief
Article)
A Mexican federal court has ordered jeans maker Levi Strauss &
Co. to pay US$45 million to a former contractor wrongly targeted in a
police raid to crack down on clothing counterfeiters, The . . .
Impetus gathers on loans.(NEW BUSINESS)(Brief Article)
Mexican banks, brought to the verge of collapse by a 1994 financial
crisis that left thousands of Mexicans bankrupt, are showing signs of a
broad return to business, mortgage and other lending.
. . .
Sarbanes-Oxley postponed.(NEW BUSINESS)(Brief Article)
International companies and small U.S. businesses that trade their
shares in the United States will be given a year's breathing space
on a Sarbanes-Oxley rule intended to tighten up financial . . .
Vote abroad sought.(NEW BUSINESS)(Brief Article)
An overwhelming 87 percent of Mexican migrants surveyed in the
United States would vote in Mexico elections if they had the chance, The
Dallas Morning News quoted a survey by the Pew Hispanic . . .
Trilateral cooperation.(NEW BUSINESS)(Brief Article)
Mexico, the United States and Canada should improve cooperation to
deal with the threat of terrorism and competition from economies in Asia
and Europe, former officials from the three countries . . .
Candidate confession.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
The gubernatorial election in the State of Mexico is considered the
most important ballot on this year's election calendar.
While the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the . . .
Climbing the rankings.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
Carlos Slim is now among the world's five richest
billionaires, leaping from No. 17 to No. 4 on Forbes magazine's
2005 rankings, with an estimated net worth of US$23.8 billion.
A report by The . . .
Special election.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
Legislators in the state of Colima set April 10 as the date for a
special gubernatorial election to replace Governor Gustavo Vazquez
Montes who was killed in a February 24 plane crash. Six other . . .
Fishing controversy.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
One of the largest U.S. environmental groups launched a campaign
blaming the Mexican government and a Mexican-owned shrimp-exporting
company of overfishing and threatening marine life in the Gulf . . .
Rice pays visit.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made her first official
visit to Mexico in mid-March, meeting with Foreign Relations Secretary
Luis Ernesto Derbez (pictured below) and President Vicente . . .
Death row reviews.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
The U.S. government acceded to a decision rendered by the
International Court of Justice (ICJ) and will order the review of the
convictions and sentences of 51 Mexicans on death row in the . . .
Letter to our readers.
With the traditional Semana Santa vacation behind us and Spring
freshly under way, this issue of BUSINESS MEXICO marks the introduction
of a new element begun in conjunction with our partners . . .
Sound and fury: theatrical gestures ignore real
problems.(SPEAKERS' CORNER)
Wedeserve more respect from our government here. I am tired of
being talked down to and patronized.
My eyes rolled around in their sockets over the domestic fallout
from the recent spat that . . .
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