Instead of spending fortunes on travel expenses just to attend business meetings, large companies are now bound to save a lot money, and time, once the new telepresence service of the Philippine Long Distance Co. (PLDT) is in full swing in the country.
The new telepresence technology offers life-like, face-to-face virtual meetings for users, said Stephen [...]

One trait of the Filipino family is our close family ties. Even as we grow and have our own family, we never take our elders for granted. We want to be sure they are always well and taken care for.
Unfortunately, seniors in other countries are not as lucky. While some would be easily left at [...]

More good news are coming from the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry in the Philippines that will help alleviate the country’s concerns on unemployment problems brought about by the sudden closure of some companies since late last year.
Together with other call centers which have opened and are planning to open sites in the country, leading [...]

Filipino exporters who attended the 34th Foodex trade fair held at Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan last March 3 to 6 made good impressions on the country’s third largest export market. So good, that the 18 food companies who attended the fair were able to sell $5.5 millions of dollars worth of their products.
The Foodex trade [...]

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on fisheries, which pledged to strengthen two-way trade and investment, has been signed between the government of Philippines and Papua New Guinea. The two countries entered into the understanding when Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Michael Somare visited the Philippines.
Somare met with our president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo during his visit country [...]

Cheaper medicines, same effects, these are the main goals of Republic Act 9502 or the Act Providing for Cheaper and Quality Medicine which the Department of Health (DOH) strongly believes will be fully implemented in two years time.
Dr. Robert So, Program Manager of the DOH Pharmaceutical Management Unit, said these goals can be attained with [...]

While names like Jollibee, McDonalds, KFC and Greenwich easily comes to mind at the mention of the word fast food, in Bicol one homegrown fast food chain has been holding its own again these fast food giants.
One of the reasons perhaps is that Biggs has been in existence in the city for over 26 years! [...]

The location: in front of a busy public elementary school where there is no parking space, a sign so small you can hardly see it, and a staff that isn’t exactly the smile-and-greet sort you meet in a regular fast food joints, but Perri Todd’s All-American Burger is always a hit with lines of people [...]

The Kraft logo that we have grown accustomed to – the word Kraft on a red oval racetrack, will soon be nothing but a part of our memory, because it will be retired in favor of a new logo to create a better brand identity. This is part of the company’s bid to increase consumption [...]

Online social networking? Name it and chances are Filipinos are in it, and Multiply is no exception.
In fact, according to Multiply founder Peter Pezaris, out of Multiply’s 12.5 million subscribers worldwide, 3.5 million are based in the Philippines. He said that the Philippines is the second largest market for Multiply in the world, next to [...]

Take flu seriously! This is clearly the message of the active campaign that is being undertaken by the concerned medical people. Dr. Dennis Garcia, head of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Section of the Makati Medical Center and Cardinal Santos Medical Center, raises his concern on the complacency of the Filipinos on flu.
Dr. Garcia said that [...]

Do you think you have what it take to save the world economy? Do you have enough business acumen in you to make big financial decisions? Can you discern when an executive is really in need of additional financial assistance or is just being greedy? Well then, you can try all these without really losing [...]

Krispy Kreme has just got to be the biggest name in doughnuts today. If you would recall its history, you will find that the doughnut company never made any fancy advertising technique back in 1937 when it started. Its melt-in-your-mouth goodness was enough to create worth-of-mouth buzz marketing which made it the global renowned doughnut [...]

For the most part, environment activists say the recently concluded Earth Hour campaign was a  huge success. It showed that nations can, and have a mandate to tackle climate change.
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said, “The world said yes to climate action, now governments must follow,” after hundreds of millions of people worldwide followed its [...]

Can a regular wage earner afford to live in a condominium? With a new project that will be undertaken by Metro Manila-based developer Phinma Properties, this could be a possibility. That is because they are molding all their projects based on the capacity of an average wage earner.
They will be starting soon on a new [...]

Last January, one of the country’s biggest business process outsourcing (BPO) company, Accenture laid off 500 of its employees. Recently however, there were rumors that Accenture is again conducting another mass layoff.  The company denied this rumor.
The news, which has been circulating in the local and international media said that Accenture will lay off half [...]

The business process outsourcing industry is still one of the top contributors to the Philippine economy, as evident by more call centers setting up office in the country. Global outsourcing giant Wipro Technologies opened their call center facility in Cebu in April last year. This early, it is planning on opening its second call center [...]

Desiree Duran was only able to finish elementary, and for most of her life, she was selling fishballs and isaw to her neighbors in Basuit, San Ildefonso, Bulacan. But this condition is not enough to make Daisy (as Desiree is commonly called) quit her dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Because of her gut-feel and queer [...]

One of a very good business prospect for an aspiring entrepreneur is the business of  Tshirt Printing. Especially with the coming 2010 election, getting on it this early is a wise decision… and a timely one that.
We all know how T-shirts are used as an effective way to promote, not just political candidates, but just [...]

The touch-screen controls on Apple iPhone are a hit, soon, this touch-screen feature will be available and built-in to the new Microsoft’s Window 7.
Introducing Windows Touch, “a first class way to interact with your PC alongside mouse and keyboard,” said the Silicon Valley giant. This would be a good time to stock up on those [...]