Apple announced that Tap to Pay on iPhone is now live in Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, and Peru, backed by six payment platforms including Mercado Pago, SumUp, Symbiotic, Geopagos, Azul, and Visa Acceptance Solutions. The feature lets merchants accept contactless debit and credit card payments directly on a compatible iPhone without extra hardware. This brings the total footprint of Tap to Pay on iPhone to 59 countries and regions since its 2022 US debut.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-09-22
ESET researchers report that the China-linked hacking group FamousSparrow has spent over a year running espionage campaigns against government agencies across Argentina, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. The group's newly identified tool, a modular C++ backdoor called SparroWocky, replaces its older SparrowDoor malware and includes advanced anti-detection and remote-control capabilities.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-09-17
Fast Company's 2026 Innovation by Design Awards named its Latin America category winner, with Nordeste by Design Bridge and Partners taking top honors. The project is a destination brand unifying nine Brazilian states in the Northeast under one flexible visual identity that highlights regional cultural diversity rather than typical tourism imagery.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-14
Meta has begun onboarding contributors to test Community Notes across 16 Latin American nations including Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia, following its US rollout that replaced professional fact-checkers. During this testing phase, notes won't be visible to users and existing third-party fact-checking arrangements remain unchanged, but Meta has signaled it eventually intends to fully transition away from professional fact-checking once the crowd-sourced system proves effective.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-10
PepsiCo has deployed its MiNegocio+ app to help small mom-and-pop stores in Mexico City order products at any time, using data insights to recommend items based on local customer demand. This shifts routine ordering tasks to the app, freeing PepsiCo's sales representatives to focus on offering strategic business advice to shop owners.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-02
Builderall's CEO, hired specifically to break into the U.S. market, instead chose to focus resources on Latin America after analyzing the company's existing customer data. He found that while U.S. users were growing organically without acquisition spend, the underlying data pointed to a bigger, underexploited opportunity closer to the company's roots.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-08-24
Teenagers and college students across Mexico, Brazil, and Costa Rica are staging public 'aura farming' battles, performing viral internet gestures like the six-seven hand sign and the dab to out-cool one another in parks and campus courtyards. The trend has migrated from social media feeds into real-world gatherings, turning everyday public spaces into informal stages for competitive posturing.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-08-24
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