Starmedia subsidiary fraud settlement

According to the complaint, Starmedia "misstated the quality and amount of the company's revenue" in 2000 and 2001.

Clickz report: Majority of Latinos with Internet access tap in via phones

Folks,

Latinos in the USA are a significant part of the smart phone audience.

From: Clickz: Latinos Leading the Mobile Web

• 65 percent of Latinos use their handset as their primary access to the Internet.
  
• more than 30 percent of iPhone users are Hispanic.
  
• From a language perspective, 52 percent of Latino smartphone users are English preferred with some Spanish, and 38 percent are Spanish preferred.

Source: Clickz

Former StarMedia exec settles with SEC

At the height of the hype of the Latino internet bubble in the late 1990s, I was certain the revenue was not there. For one, most of the Latinos online at the time, lived in the United States. For two, almost 100 percent of the advertising market and potential advertising market for Latinos online was in the United States.

ChristianScienceMonitor: Latinos at rally to Dems: immigration reform or no votes

“It’s frustrating that we haven’t seen change. We haven’t seen what we expected. But I understand that things in the government take time.”

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0322/At-Washington-s-immigration-reform-march-a-warning-from-Latinos

CorpusChristiCallerTimes: State board member urges remembering Latinos who defended the Alamo

"She was trying to persuade the board to include in the teaching of Texas history the names of the eight Tejanos who died at the 1836 battle of the Alamo. "

http://www.caller.com/news/2010/mar/21/hispanic-texans-part-legend/

FastCo.: Blogger recaps the history of Hispanic ad networks

"The more ad networks make monetization possible for the content creators focused on the Hispanic market – the better. The eco-system grows and validates the Hispanic market and the Hispanic consumer – all I’ve ever wanted."

http://www.fastcompany.com/1579996/an-ad-network-story

Black Athlete: Latino professor digests issue of race and Latinos in Baseball; black Latinos playing the game.

"So, in seeking to shed light on one problem, (Torii) Hunter has cast a spotlight on another, one that is a perhaps longer-lingering matter that afflicts not just baseball but U.S. society as a whole: how to talk about Latinos and race, and, even more challenging, what to do with Afro-Latinos."

http://blackathlete.net/artman2/publish/Baseball_20/Oh_brother_where_are_thou.shtml