UOL, an award winning Portuguese technology company, has acquired Passei Direto, an online Latin application for learning, communication and education. As part of the acquisition, UOL will be able to include this important new Latin application to its portfolio of mobile solutions. "With over two hundred million users in over 180 countries, Android is now the fastest growing mobile application platform in the world", said UOL's Managing Director, Antony Raimer. "Passeio Direto's impressive list of features will add another feather to the hat of our Latin application, already very popular on mobile devices inrazil and throughout the Latin America and European regions". "With this acquisition by UOL, we look forward to offering our Latin American users access to additional tools and features that will help them advance their education and communicate more effectively".
With this acquisition, UOL will bring together the powerful benefits of its existing Android management system SABER and its newly acquired social learning software called Latuva. "Social learning is a revolutionary concept, which enables individuals and groups to work together in real time via a system of interactive communication, sharing and collaboration", states Mr. Raimer. "In practice, this means that users can easily share information and ideas using either SMS or e-mails". " latency is also one of the key factors that make a good communication medium", added Mr. Raimer. " latency refers to the time difference between the message being sent and received by the receiver. Since most of our customers are in countries where Internet connection and speed are not fully guaranteed, we have been looking for an alternative option for quite some time, which is why we decided to acquire Passeio Direto from UOL".
"One of the biggest challenges that Latin American students face when pursuing post-graduate studies is how to engage with their colleagues and the wider community, as they face diversity issues", said Mr. Raimer. "Latvia's platform allows us to easily manage a group of students from different backgrounds without having to deal with the language, culture and other problems that Latin American students usually face". "The students can be automatically moved through our post-graduate coursework with the help of their group leaders, who take the responsibility for moving them through the various courses, depending on their progress. This will greatly reduce the time they spend on manual tasks and instead allow them to be more involved with their peers and topics they are more interested in", added Mr. Raimer. "So now students can study Spanish in the comfort of their homes with minimal effort and enjoy all the benefits of having a touch screen mobile phone".
