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Juan Carlos Perez
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 Juan Carlos Perez is assistant news editorfor IDG News Service based in Miami. He covers enterprise and consumer search engines, instant messaging, Webmail, portals, e-commerce, Web 2.0 technologies and Web application development. His main beat companies are Google, Yahoo, AOL, Amazon, eBay and Microsoft's MSN. He is also part of the editing staff, helping plan coverage, coach writers and edit copy.
Juan has been covering IT since 1995, when he became a member of Computerworld's first online edition. He joined the News Service in 1997 as its first-ever Latin America correspondent, and later became its Latin America news editor and a U.S. assistant news editor.
He has covered a wide variety of topics in IT, including databases, IT consulting & services, Linux and open source, Latin America's IT and telecom market and, most recently, Internet issues. While at Computerworld, he won an American Society of Business Press Editors (ASBPE) award for a story he cowrote about Apple.
Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Juan is fully bilingual in Spanish and English. He has a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from the University of Puerto Rico and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. While in college, Juan wrote scripts for two popular sitcoms in Puerto Rico, did a weekly report on San Juan's cultural scene for a local radio station, wrote music and theater reviews for a local daily and edited a literary magazine. He likes to read, go to the movies, listen to music and spend time with his family.
Stories:
MySpace becomes phenomenon, faces challenges
Sellers have high expectations for eBay Express
AOL subscribers up in arms over e-mail ads
Yahoo-eBay tie-up smart but 'anti-climactic'
Q&A: Vint Cerf on Google's challenges, aspirations
Firefox faces challenges as it matures
Amazon turns 10
Online auction providers grapple with fraud
Google's seven-year itch
BEATS:
E-Commerce
IT Consulting & Services
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The IDG News Service distributes exclusive news, features, columns and graphics to Computerworld, CIO, NetworkWorld, PC World, Macworld and Infoworld – technology publications and web sites that account for more than 300 titles circulated in more than 85 countries.
News Service staff journalists report from Tokyo, Taipei, Singapore, Beijing, Bangalore, Paris, London, Brussels, Dublin, New York, Miami, Washington, Boston and San Francisco, and their stories are supplemented by contributions from IDG media worldwide. Each week day, the News Service distributes more than 100 stories across IDG’s global network of technology media outlets.
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