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Con verdadero placer les envío carta de Nelson Tarke y Wifredo "Willy" Gort, presidentes de CAMACOL y el Congreso Hemisférico respectivamente, anunciando el nombramiento de Jose Matto como nuevo Director Ejecutivo del Congreso Hemisférico y Luis Cuervo como Director de Desarrollo de Negocios.

Jose Matto, vinculado a Camacol desde hace varios años participó en  los dos últimos Congresos celebrados en Miami y en la Reunión de la Secretaría Permanente en Panamá. De sólida formación y experiencia especializado en innovación tecnológica y relaciones internacionales se dispone a enfrentar el desafío de la modernalidad y la globalización consolidado el Congreso Hemisférico de Camaras de Comercio e Industria Latinos ¡Abierto al Mundo!

Luis Cuervo, bien conocido de ustedes poseedor de grandes dotes como relacionista y carisma de servicios se dispone a dar lo mejor de sí para desarrollar negocios a favor de los afiliados de Camacol y las Cámaras de Comercio Latinas. Tiene ya estructurado un plan de desarrollo a un año y 5 años, acordes con los planes renovadores e innovadores del nuevo presidente de Camacol Nelson Tarke

Yahoo to consider selling itself off before it collapses

The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo’s board plans to discuss selling off the company’s core business as well as its stake in Chinese internet giant Alibaba.

It’s about time: the company’s stock price has steadily fallen by more than 30 percent this year, owing to poor performance. Selling off its assets seems to be the only viable way to keep it from going under at this point.

To understand just how much trouble Yahoo is in, let’s look at some figures. The company’s 15 percent share of Alibaba is currently worth roughly $32 billion, while its stake in Yahoo Japan is worth about $8.5 billion.

Analysts estimate that Yahoo’s core business — which includes search, news, email and entertainment and business content — is worth about $3.9 billion.

Yahoo’s dismal performance over the past few years is widely attributed to its president and CEO Marissa Mayer, who moved from Google to take the reins in 2012 to turn the tide for the struggling company.

Mayer hasn’t been able to revive Yahoo’s core offerings in the past three years. And under her leadership, the company acquired microblogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion and fashion startup Polyvore for about $200 million — but neither have proven their value as yet.

However, Yahoo still has a massive audience. According to Web index Alexa, it’s among the top 10 sites in the US, India, and Mexico. With the right moves, a new investor could take over the company’s numerous properties across the globe and take advantage of a captive audience to turn things around.

ITPalooza 2015 Is Almost Here - Don't Miss Out!

Don't Miss Out - Register Now Now in its 4th year, ITPalooza 2015 is set to be the best yet ITPalooza is an annual gathering of South Florida’s non-profit Technology User Groups (tech groups).  This year we are anticipating over 2,500 tech professionals, 100+ Exhibitors, 45 Speakers and 9 Tracks making it the biggest ITPalooza yet!  The 4th Annual ITPalooza is set to deliver unbelievable value to the South Florida Tech community on Thursday December 3rd at Nova Southeastern University. WHEN: Thursday, December 3rd, 2015 WHERE: NSU’s College of Engineering and Computing (Formally GSCIS) Carl DeSantis Bldg. 3301 College Avenue Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314 what's happening? Hackathons start at 8:30am Breakout Sessions begin at 1pm Tables for Vendors and Users Groups: 1pm to 5pm Hiring Fair: 1pm to 5pm Holiday Party from 6pm tp 9pm Don't Miss Out - Register Now We are proud that once again Host.net will be a sponsor of the event.  Come visit our hospitality tent which as with ITPalooza will be our biggest tent yet!  Meet the team, and enjoy amazing hospitality and the opportunity to mingle with our VIP Guests.  Of course, we will have an amazing array of libations and delicacies should you be thirsty or have the need for a little nosh! We look forward to sharing with you not only the event, but also tell you about all of the exciting things that we have in store for 2016 and beyond!

World Soccer's Financing Secrets Revealed in Leaked Documents

The documents also show that the firm owns the global sponsorship rights of Barcelona and Brazil forward Neymar, one of soccer’s most celebrated players.

• Detailed bank statements from Doyen Sports include Neymar deal
• Fund in litigation over player trade regulations with FIFA

Leaked documents from one of the biggest firms investing millions in soccer-player futures are providing a glimpse into a secretive -- and now banned -- financing practice for the global sport.

Invisible to even the most avid soccer fans, Doyen Sports Investments and other companies like it have become a critical source of financing for often cash-strapped soccer clubs. These investors pay teams for trading rights to select players, betting that the player’s trade value will rise. If that happens, Doyen realizes a profit when the player moves from one team to the next.

A spokesman for the company verified that the documents, released on Football_Leaks.com, were real, but declined to comment further.

Soccer’s Richest Trades

Accounts for the second half of 2011 reveal the company has been involved in some of soccer’s richest trades and turned a handsome profit. The company invested 25.6 million euros ($27.2 million) for trading rights for seven players, including some of the sport’s most expensive. Doyen spent 10 million euros for a 33.3 percent stake in Colombian striker Radamel Falcao’s trading rights. When he was traded two years later, the company netted a 4 million euro profit.

The documents also show that the firm paid 6 million euros in August 2012 to buy the global sponsorship rights of Barcelona and Brazil forward Neymar, one of soccer’s most celebrated players. It also loaned 6.9 million euros to two Spanish teams, Atletico Madrid and Sporting de Gijon.

FIFA, the governing body for world soccer, last year banned investors from buying stakes in future trading rights of players, the biggest part of Doyen’s business. The practice -- called third-party ownership -- started in South America and has spread to large parts of Europe, raising concerns about investors influence over the sport. Doyen has challenged the ban in court.

Ties to Malta

The documents also reveal the source of the company’s funding to be two entities that share an address with Doyen Sports in Ta’Xbiex, a little town in Malta.

One of the companies, Benington Group Assets Limited, has a single shareholder, Malik Ali, a Turkish citizen in his early 30s. Ali, who loaned more than 54 million euros to Doyen, according to one of the documents, also owns all of Doyen’s Class A shares. The remaining 20 percent of its stock is in Class B shares, owned by another Maltese entity called Wood, Gibbins & Partners Limited.

Doyen Sports is owned by Doyen Group Ltd., a London-based firm that invests in commodities, construction, the energy sector, and real estate. It also owns the five-star hotel chain, Rixos Hotels.

The leak comes at a sensitive time for Doyen. It’s awaiting the result of a lawsuit at the Court of Arbitration for Sport after Portugal’s Sporting Clube refused to pay the fund profits it was due over the trade of Argentine defender Marcos Rojo to Manchester United. Sporting claims the contract with Doyen is abusive.

The exact size of Doyen is unknown but Chief Executive Officer Nelio Lucas said in 2014 that the company turns over considerable amounts cash, though it remains small compared with the parent company.

“The group is backed from private families,” he said. “It’s very clear we have so many investments in so many things. So many billions in turnover. So 100 million it’s a little drop in the ocean. Now 200 million, that’s two drops in the ocean.”

The Doomsday Ideology of Islamic State's Leader (BusinessWeek)

• France escalates air campaign in Raqqa after Paris attacks
• Baghdadi's propaganda says fighting will lead to apocalypse

Ever since Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi put on a black robe and turban to ascend a mosque pulpit in Iraq and proclaim to rule over the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims last year, he’s surrounded himself by symbols of doomsday. 

In addition to his attire, he named the group’s English-language magazine after the Syrian town where some Sunni tradition says Islam’s Armageddon is supposed to happen. Many of his foreign fighters were lured to the self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq by the promise of a ringside seat for the end of the world. 

As the attacks in Paris unite world powers to hit back at Islamic State and reverse its territorial expansion, they also play into that more apocalyptic narrative of the jihadist group and its leader. The slaying of at least 129 people by militants linked to the group, bombings in Beirut and Ankara and the downing of a Russian plane over Egypt show Baghdadi inciting the kind of response that would escalate his war.

“The attacks all work within a strategy of provocation,” said Charlie Winter, who studies Islamic State propaganda and was recently appointed as a senior research associate at Georgia State University.  “They also lend it credibility as a jihadist organization.”          

 Bombing Raqqa

The extremists said the massacre in France was “only the beginning of the storm” and the coalition against them now looks broader and more determined.

Russia and the U.S., previously at cross purposes over Syria’s civil war, are showing signs of responding to French President Francois Hollande’s call for a united front as he steps up a bombing campaign against the group’s de facto capital of Raqqa in eastern Syria. At least 33 Islamic State fighters have been killed in three days in the airstrikes, according to the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

“It may want to build a caliphate, but it may also be just fine trying to trigger an apocalyptic war between civilizations,” said Shadi Hamid, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Middle East Policy. 

Mosque’s Messi

Under Baghdadi’s leadership, Islamic State sought to acquire all the trappings of a functional state based in Raqqa, even minting its own coins. Using a slick propaganda machine to help build its brand while funded from extortion and illegal oil, it eclipsed al-Qaeda to turn into the richest and most brutal of terrorist groups. 

Unlike the self-publicity of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, relatively little is known about Baghdadi, whose real name is Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badri. 

He was born into a pious family in the Iraqi city of Samarra in 1971. Neighbors remember him as a shy teenager, according to a profile by William McCants, author of “The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State.” When he wasn’t in school, he was praying or studying the Koran, earning him the nickname “The Believer.”

At a mosque football club, where Baghdadi was the star, he later became known as “our Messi,” after former world player of the year Lionel Messi of Argentina and Barcelona. Teammates recall he often lost his temper when he failed to score, McCants says.

The Caliph

After the U.S.-led 2003 invasion of Iraq, Baghdadi helped found an insurgent group and spent time in the American-run detention facility Camp Bucca in southern Iraq. He then joined an al-Qaeda-led umbrella organization of Sunni jihadist groups that went through several incarnations before morphing into Islamic State.

While consolidating his position within the group, Baghdadi pursued a doctorate in religious studies. Islamic State unveiled him as “Caliph Ibrahim” in June 2014 after its fighters swept through northern Iraq and raised their black banners over Mosul.

While skillful at welding together a group from different factions, the question is whether he can meet meet the expectations of his followers, said Matthew Levitt, director of the counter terrorism program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

 

“Whenever you have an apocalyptic type cult in any religion, the more time that passes without fulfilling the prophecies, the more evident it becomes that the prophecies aren’t going to happen,” said Levitt.

Baghdadi is reported to wear a mask in the company of anyone who’s not part of a select group of devotees. The appearance at the mosque in Mosul has so far also been his only one. That day, his black turban invoked the image of some Abbasidi rulers who prophesied the world’s end as they seized power in eighth-century Baghdad.

“There’s an attractiveness to a certain type of person, to this way of saying ‘hey, let’s go fulfill this, it’s our time now,”’ said Scott Stewart, vice president of tactical analysis at Stratfor based in Austin, Texas. “That apocalypticism has a lot of appeal.”

Windows turns 30

The PC revolution started off life 30 years ago this week. Microsoft launched its first version of Windows on November 20th, 1985, to succeed MS-DOS. It was a huge milestone that paved the way for the modern versions of Windows we use today. While Windows 10 doesn’t look anything like Windows 1.0, it still has many of its original fundamentals like scroll bars, drop-down menus, icons, dialog boxes, and apps like Notepad and MS paint.

Windows 1.0 also set the stage for the mouse. If you used MS-DOS then you could only type in commands, but with Windows 1.0 you picked up a mouse and moved windows around by pointing and clicking. Alongside the original Macintosh, the mouse completely changed the way consumers interacted with computers. At the time, many complained that Windows 1.0 focused far too much on mouse interaction instead of keyboard commands. Microsoft's first version of Windows might not have been well received, but it kick-started a battle between Apple, IBM, and Microsoft to provide computing to the masses.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates with a boxed copy of Windows 

Back in 1985, Windows 1.0 required two floppy disks, 256 kilobytes of memory, and a graphics card. If you wanted to run multiple programs, then you needed a PC with a hard disk and 512 kilobytes of memory. You wouldn't be able to run anything with just 256 kilobytes of memory with modern machines, but those basic specifications were just the beginning. While Apple had been ahead in producing mouse-driven GUIs at the time, it remained focused on the combination of hardware and software. Microsoft had already created its low-cost PC DOS operating system for IBM PCs, and was firmly positioned as a software company.

With Windows 1.0, Microsoft took the important step of focusing on apps and core software. IBM held onto the fundamentals of the PC architecture for a few years, but Microsoft made it easy for rivals and software developers to create apps, ensuring that Windows was relatively open and easy to reconfigure and tweak. PC manufacturers flocked to Windows, and the operating system attracted support from important software companies. This approach to providing software for hardware partners to sell their own machines created a huge platform for Microsoft. It's a platform that allows you to upgrade through every version of Windows, as a classic YouTube clip demonstrates.

https://youtu.be/vPnehDhGa14  

Windows has now dominated personal computing for 30 years, and no amount of Mac vs. PC campaigns have come close to changing that, but they've certainly been entertaining. Microsoft has continued to tweak Windows and create new uses for it across devices, in businesses, and now with the move to the cloud. It's only now, with the popularity of modern smartphones and tablets, that Windows faces its toughest challenge yet. Microsoft may yet weather its mobile storm, but it will only do so by rekindling its roots as a true software company. In 2045, it's unlikely that we'll be celebrating another 30 years of Windows in quite the same fashion, so let's look back at how Microsoft's operating system has changed since its humble beginnings.

EN MI OPINION: (Ricardo Tribin Acosta)

Los hábitos son como los corchos

Como corchos? Pregunta el “maese” Erasmo. Si como tales, ya que ellos tienden a mantenerte arriba o a hundirte. Y es que hay alguna diferencia?, agrega el orate Gaudencio; si, y esta es bastante simple. Un hábito bueno, como por ejemplo el del ejercicio ayuda bastante, levanta el ánimo, y mantiene el espíritu en alto.

Y entonces? agregaría, Venancio. También, algo simple de decir,  más dificultoso a veces de mantener,  y esto es que un mal hábito, como por ejemplo el de la murmuración, conduce a estados con consecuencias insospechadas. Bueno, pero  sería entonces saber cuál es el camino más indicado a seguir?

También muy sencillo en expresión pero que, para practicarlo, necesita una decidida acción. Y cuál sería? Buena y oportuna pregunta. Para mejorar hay que cambiar hábitos, los malos por otros buenos, implicando ello una renovación mental, espiritual, y de actitud, la que nos conducirá hacia una el logro más aceptable calidad de vida.

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Miami, Noviembre 18 de 2015