I didn’t ever write about my job on this blog but it seems I might benefit from doing so this time We are now 2 people working in Chile for a small but fine Canadian Software Company. I got authorization to hire employee #3 for Chile so here goes the Ad: We, a young, dynamic [...]
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Looking for New Talent to work with us in Santiago
Posted in Business, Chile on March 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Chile is the FIRST country in the world to adopt Net Neutrality
Posted in Business, Chile, law, Politics, technology on August 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »
wow…. The headline says it all. If you are a little tech interested you might have followed the discussion in the US where Verizon and Google have formed a contract framework giving power to the big wireless networks potentially allowing content creators to pay for preferential treatment. An example could be Google saying they will [...]
The Santiago Economy is growing again
Posted in Business, Chile, Economy, Finance on November 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My wife works very closely with the big retailers here in Chile and she estimates that November will be better then what Forbes writes about October. Santiago retail sales expanded 3 percent in the first 10 months of the year, and the chamber estimates sales in the capital will grow about 3.5 percent this year [...]
Is Argentina a "Banana Republic"?
Posted in Argentina, Business, Economy, Politics on May 21, 2009 | 6 Comments »
..that is what we in Austria call countries where there is no consistency in laws and you cannot trust your politicians. See here the meaning of Banana Republic There have been many examples (please add your examples in the comments) about bad politics in Argentina and I will list the ones that I have [...]
The Chilean Finance Minister
Posted in Business, Chile, Economy, Finance on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Andre’s Velasco the Chilean Finance minister picture from wikimedia There is a great story on Bloomberg about the Chilean Finance Minister Andrés Velasco and the government savings from Copper which he is starting to spend to stimulate the Chilean economy. The article is really well written and there is not one good part to [...]
Fake Argentinean Pesos
Posted in Argentina, Business, Travel, tagged fake money, fraud on April 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Liz and I where in Buenos Aires Argentina for the Easter weekend. We had an amazing time. We spent 2 nights at Rocio’s and Malcolm’s two friends. Rocio, who is originally Argentinian lived with Liz in Mexico City for a while and are a little bit like sisters. They live in Tigre which is a [...]
I am getting some easy to resist advertising deals offered ;) for andreinchile.com
Posted in Business on March 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
These are two easy to resist ad offers I received in the past days: Hi, I will give you $25 (they did not tell me for how long – per day? per month? for ever?) in exchange for placing a text ad for an international calls provider on this page: Sorry Vodafone I am using [...]



