MercadoLibre ventures into the Blackberry - El Heraldo (Colombia) (blog)

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Z10 BlackBerry smartphone in Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela, MercadoLibre makes available to its users free smartphone application that lets you search and buy everything on the Internet sales site Latin America’s largest. MercadoLibre Mobile Application, and reached a record 70 000 downloads in the region.

With this new tool is easier to find the best deals, compare prices, check the rating of users and make purchases directly from the BlackBerry smartphone Z10. Additionally, it offers the ability to sort lists, photos and descriptions of products and allows interaction through questions and answers with the seller.

MercadoLibre.com is one of the purchases and sales platforms largest Internet in Latin America with 85.7 million registered users and more than a thousand queries per second. It is worth noting that currently seven percent of the billing of MercadoLibre in Latin America comes from purchases via phone and 8% of traffic also comes from these devices. Purchases made only with the application on BlackBerry devices (January 2012 to January 2013) recorded a growth of almost 300 percent.