AT&T Inc. and Centennial Communications Corp. announced that AT&T plans to acquire Centennial, a regional provider of wireless and wired communications services, for $944 million in cash. The transaction will enhance AT&T’s wireless coverage for customers in largely rural areas of the Midwest and Southeast United States and in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. With the addition of Centennial’s wired network in Puerto Rico, AT&T will also be able to better serve the company’s business customers who operate there.
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New-Generation Workers want technology their way.
Millennial generation students and employees (those aged 14 to 27) expect to use their own technology and mobile devices for work and are increasingly choosing their place of employment based on how accommodating companies are to their personal technology preferences, according to a survey released today by Accenture.
Compass Bank introduces BBVA Compass.
Compass Bank announced that it is launching its new brand, BBVA Compass, across its six-state “legacy” footprint, beginning in the bank’s Colorado Springs, CO market on October 15 and completing the transformation with its West Texas markets in the first quarter of 2009.
Acting Like A Minority Majority.
50 million Hispanics or Latinos – we’re huge!
With numerous great accomplishments in sports, science, politics, business, etc.
It should make us all very proud to be part of this vibrant, growing and exciting group.
By: Enrique R. Turegano
alPunto Advertising
Convergence of Traditional and Emerging Media.
I was recently asked to address the National Hispanic Corporate Council (NHCC) at their annual meeting in Atlanta. This is the gathering of some very smart folks in Corporate America who are always trying to stay ahead of the curve as it relates to best practices in reaching out to Hispanics. Their mission statement is very clear.
Published by Jose Cancela – Hispanic USA.
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Capturing Opportunities in Challenging Times.
The current global financial crisis has hit with such speed and severity that it appears entirely unique. Even with the various economic downturns experienced in 1990-91, 1997, 2000-01, and 2003, our seventeen years of largely uninterrupted growth have left many businesses ill-prepared to make the decisions necessary to ensure survival, let along growth in the marketplace today.
Finding Growth in Challenging Times: 7 Indicators to evaluate Population Growth.
A new Nielsen Company white paper reports on the findings of an analysis that reveals expansion opportunities for the retail industry by identifying seven indicators of growth in markets of all sizes.
Getting to Inclusion.
By 2042, most Americans will be non-White (eight years sooner than previously predicted). (1) Although, we don‚t have to wait until then to start thinking how your general market advertising affects multicultural consumers. Today, over a third of the US population is multicultural.
The economic slowdown and the Hispanic market: Hispanic Business. PART III
In this last installment of my three-part look at the U.S. Hispanic market in an economic downturn, I will focus on the Hispanic business market, particularly Hispanic small businesses.
