Clik here to view.
Unlocked iPhones: $471 in China, $625 in Turkey
Hats off to Silicon Alley Insider for their continued coverage of the overseas iPhone market. Last week, Henry Blodget plucked a pseudonymous post from a New York Times comment stream and re-published...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The iPhone in Spain: On again, off again
What's going on with the iPhone on the Iberian peninsula? Although it's the corporate home of Telefonica, S.A., (TEF) one of the world's largest telecommunications conglomerates (it owns, among other...
View ArticleClik here to view.
iPhone country count hits 70 with deals in Japan and Spain
In a break with its pattern of partnering with the largest provider in every international market it enters, Apple (AAPL) has cut an iPhone deal with Tokyo-based Softbank (SFT.F), Japan's No. 3...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Apple invades Spain
Continuing the expansion of its overseas retail empire, Apple (AAPL) chose Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, as the site of its first Apple Store in Spain. Despite the famous Catalan reserve, the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An exquisitely timed iPhone leak
As mobile companies meet in Spain for their annual congress, Apple hijacks the show The most exciting thing about a big tech industry gathering, goes the cynical reporter joke, is that you know Apple...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Apple preps for global iPad 2 stockouts
Unable to fill U.S. orders, it will make the device unavailable in 25 more countries on Friday Last week, for reasons I'd rather not examine too closely, I spent the better part of an hour waiting...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In Spain, new leadership, same problems
Spaniards voted in a new conservative government yesterday on hopes that a change at the top could help save the country from its economic woes. But it’s unclear if the country’s new leaders can do...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spain’s big fix will enrage many workers
Luis de Guindos, Spain's Economy Minister Faced with the highest unemployment in the developed world and an economy skidding into a double dip recession, Spain is about to embark on a series of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Investors cast doubt on Spain’s rosy economic picture
A disastrous share offering in Madrid earlier this week portends continued economic trouble for Spain and, quite possibly, for the European Union. Shares of Bankia, the nationalized Spanish lender,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spain’s protest – and secession – movements gain steam
One of Spain's most charismatic and media savvy political leaders, the Benedictine nun and physician Teresa Forcades, shot to fame in 2009 after she slammed the WHO and the pharmaceutical industry for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In Spain, government-backed trains overtake planes
Tucked in a quiet corner of Barcelona's Sants train station on a recent afternoon, Ima Cruzado pages through email messages amidst a symphony of conversation and rolling suitcase wheels. Even though...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Europe revives an old, ugly tradition: Expulsion
FORTUNE — During Spain's early 21st century boom, immigration boosted the country's population from 40.5 million to 46.2 million. But with the onslaught of its economic crisis, some 2.2 million people...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Airbnb, Uber under attack in Barcelona
Barcelona would seem like the perfect market for web-based collaborative consumption firms like Airbnb and Uber. Spain's second city is a hip tourist destination with a large population of young...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spanish PM announces $8.6 billion stimulus plan
A week after a bad stumble in European elections, Spain’s Prime Minister unveiled the first details of a EUR6.3 billion ($8.6 billion) stimulus package to revive the economy and create much-needed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The little Spanish soccer team that could vies for crowdfunding victory
One of Alex Aranz?bal's earliest boyhood memories of his local soccer team, SD Eibar in Spain's Basque Country, was of the home team goalie scoring with a goal kick that he managed to slam the length...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spain’s ‘Bad Bank’ president takes page from ‘The Godfather’
Bel?n Romana, the president of Spain’s “bad bank,” stood up to aggressive American hedge funds in the wake of the country’s financial crisis by sticking to one simple principle: It’s not personal, it’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Shopping in Europe: The new ‘Grand Tour’
La Roca del Vall?s was once little more than a sleepy Catalan village (pop. 7,000) surrounded by farmland, 35 minutes northeast of Barcelona. Now, that farmland is the home of outlet mall La Roca...
View ArticleClik here to view.
From the eurozone’s periphery, some good news at last
It seems like years since good news came out of the countries scattered around the fringe of the eurozone, but the signs are increasing that things are finally starting to improve. Leading the way...
View ArticleClik here to view.
For Spanish youth, a hard choice to go abroad for work
After years of savage cuts, Spain's job market finally seems to be improving. In the second quarter of the year, net employment increased by 192,400, the first increase in six years. At the same time,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Disunited States of Europe
In the movie Braveheart, the 13th-century Scottish warrior William Wallace (in the form of Mel Gibson) gallops across the green Highlands exhorting people to fight the English and shouting in Gaelic,...
View Article
