Apple has said it wants to add more ethnic diversity to the little cartoon characters, called emoji, available to iPhone and Mac computer users. The characters, which are like graphically-enhanced emoticons originated from Japan and, while the graphic icons often many things from Japanese culture, there are no emoji Latinos or Black people.
A new app targeted at the tech savvy U.S. Hispanic market hopes to provide a direct channel for major brands to Latinos' smartphones. Veo is a new promotional and advertising app meant to cut out the middle man between companies and Latinos' attentions.
Enrollment in Obamacare coverage in California is up as the deadline draws closer, but according to a new report, Latinos and young people still lag behind in coverage.
President Obama is definitely trying to get the word out to young people about the Affordable Care Act, appearing this week on the hip viral Funny or Die show "Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis". But the question is, with Latinos and youth the two groups lagging behind in health insurance enrollment, will Obama's appearance make a difference?
The internet is about to get a lot bigger, come mid-March, when another batch of gTLDs (generic top level domains: various alternatives for the ".com" or ".org" that follows a web address) hit the public. On March 19, one of those gTLDs up for grabs is .UNO, the first dedicated domain for Spanish-speakers.
The recent row over the Federal Communications Commission's Open Internet rules, and net neutrality in general, isn't the only thing going on in the world of cable and its government regulator. Recent regulatory changes signaled by FCC chairman Tom Wheeler have been positive signs beyond the Open Internet kerfuffle, and a Latino watchdog is happy.
Latinos aren't signing up for the Affordable Care Act's healthcare marketplaces in droves, as President Obama's administration expected. Now a Hispanic market research firm in California says it has the reason why: the marketing was all wrong.
With the Federal Communications Commission going back to the drawing board on Net Neutrality and Comcast recently announcing its proposed take-over of Time Warner Cable, the internet landscape as we know it is changing. National Latino organizations are reacting - with what could be described as "skeptical optimism."
"Hispanics are ahead of the digital curve" according to a new report from Nielsen, which found that the average Latino is more likely to own a smartphone and frequently use cutting-edge digital media on the internet.
