Every business owner comes to a time when he feels that he wants to work less and do other things that are also important to him.  He’s not ready to give up the business.  He just wants to establish a better balance between his work and personal life.
Susan Ward, author at About.com suggests some useful [...]

The primary goal of a businessman is to make profits. Author and entrepreneur CJ Hayden explains that to post profits, one has to have a good business model. One needs to have a profit-making plan.
Mr. Hayden cites two business models for a business man who is offering his services for $100 per hour. [...]

She was instrumental in bringing back democracy to our country. During her six-year term, she was able to survived seven coup attempts.
Former President Corazon Aquino, our country’s first female president, died on Saturday morning at the age of 76.
Her son, Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, said she died at 3:18 AM, Saturday.
In the past month, [...]

Scott Allen, one of the pioneers of social networking and social media for business, and co-author of The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online shares how he landed on Google’s front page for the keyword “entrepreneur”.
In 1992, the US economy recovering from recession and the demand for Windows-based computer networks was very high. [...]

Inward remittance outside of the banking system of foreign investment funds is allowed. Though, with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the said fund is not possible to be registered as foreign equity investment. As a result, with the use of foreign exchange sourced outside of the domestic banking [...]

Crop production in Oriental Mindoro is normally steady all year round due to its favorable climate. However, these arid months of 2009, Calapan, Oriental Mindoro farmers have experienced a drastic yield loss because of what they believed to be the result of climate change.
This sudden irregularity in weather and higher occurrence of rainfall that caused [...]

This article discusses on the ways in investing in the Philippines together with the encompassing activities, requirements for remittance and funding, taxes and incentives.
Regional Head Quarters (RHQ)
RHQ is defined as an office which has a purpose of acting as an administrative branch of multinational companies that are engaged in international trade. RHQ activities for its [...]

Recreational activities and games have been part of the lives of the Filipinos who are naturally born happy people. The games that they have engaged with have evolved from the traditional street games like piko, patintero, and tumbang preso to the use of technology like computers games.
With the rising of the Gaming technology, it has [...]

Transprocure is a seven-year old company consisting of all Filipino and is competing for the topnotch position in the growing field of procurement services. It aims to make the Philippines the World Capital of Procurement.
Transprocure has the main function of procurement and is a pioneer company that carries end-to-end solutions. Procurement involves assisting an organization [...]

Taking a break from the business side of things, I’m creating my list of Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs for 2009 to support the writing project spearheaded by Janette Toral
My list is diverse collection of interest from creative writing, family, photography and what-have-you. Do check these blogs out.
Here are my nominees:
1. Roy The Struggling Blogger
2. [...]

Microsoft appears to be a little more competitive than it has been in recent years. As one industry analyst has put it, Microsoft seems o be enjoying itself as Kevin Turner proclaimed that competing is a lot more fun when you’re winning that it is when you’re losing.
To illustrate Microsoft’s new and more aggressive [...]

Internet search giant Google reported a significant profit increase for the second quarter of this year, indicating that stabilization of the advertising market may be possible soon.
Google’s net income for the quarter posted an 18 percent increase, as its revenue increased by 3%. This was the lowest growth rate the company has posted in [...]

Around 500 employees will be displaced as Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. decided to close its manufacturing plant in Las Pinas City on September 30 this year.
Goodyear Philippines Inc. Managing Director Dave Morin said the facility’s operating costs were no longer competitive after it lost its export business.
Morin said exports consist 45 to 50 percent [...]

Internet search giant, Google, reports experiencing signs of stabilization in what has been a tumultuous advertising environment.
Google’s Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said consumers are still spending less than they did before the economic crunch, but at least they are clicking around and searching for deals. Google reported an increase in the number of [...]

A feat to celebrate a birthday. The event was such as the sale of Meralco’s shares to Pilipino Telephone Corp closed on July 14., the 63rd birthday of Manuel V. Pangilinan or MVP, head honcho of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company.
The formal closing of the sale provided PLDT with management control over Manila [...]

“We always knew this would happen,” Deputy Presidential spokesperson Gary Olivar commented on the increase in OFW remittances posted in May.
Malacañang said that the record high remittances proved that the government was correct in being optimistic about the country’s economy this year.
Olivar said they are happy about this kind of numbers. “It is just [...]

In the face of economic crisis most people scrimp, others however, continue to spend on “drinks”.
With the continuing demand on its products, the alcoholic beverage unit of San Miguel Corp increased its profits by more than 50 percent from January to June this year fueling hopes that the company would close the year on a [...]

Multinational companies are now showing renewed interest in the Philippines as an investment site for their renewable energy projects, thanks to the Renewable Energy Act of 2009.
Antonio Yee, president of Chevron Geothermal Philippines Holding Inc, said that before the law was enacted, Chevron focused more on Indonesia which has a 10,000 megawatt (mW) untapped geothermal [...]

Nokia, the world’s largest mobile handsets manufacturer posted an eightfold increase in operating profits from $78 million to $602 million for the second quarter of 2009. Sales also increased 70% to $14 billion dollars.
Nokia Chief Executive officer Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo offered that he was “quite pleased” with the company’s earnings for the last three months as [...]

Every four years, an Olympic is being held. Different countries are hosting this much awaited event in sports. As athletes are preparing to be able to participate in this prestigious event, business minded people are also looking forward to this event as this serves as an opportunity to earn.
In 2012, London will be the host [...]