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Twitter 101 guide for business

July 24th, 2009 - Business & Finance

Businesses can’t solely rely on traditional methods and platforms. Zee internets is a sizeable venue for just about everything, and Twitter has just posted how they can help.
So what does Twitter do for businesses? Twitter is a communications platform that helps businesses and their customers do a number of useful things. As a business, you [...]

BIR: Only 3.1M Filipinos Registered?

May 12th, 2009 - Business & Finance, Lounge

Taxes… taxes… taxes…
Finance Secretary Margarito Teves yesterday said just 3.1 million, or a little over 3 percent of the 90 million Filipinos, are registered individual taxpayers with the Bureau of Internal Revenue.

Oracle catches Sun

April 21st, 2009 - Business & Finance, Tech & Online

Oracle (the corporation not the character) to purchase Sun Microsystems. How much? – Just a mere US$7.4B…

Square Enix buys Eidos

March 8th, 2009 - Business & Finance, Games

Shibuya-based gaming company to acquire Eidos of Wimbledon.
Eidos has reached an agreement with Square Enix which will result in the Britsoft firm’s complete share capital being purchased by the Japanese company in early May.

Once Bitten, Twice Shy, Third Time Stupid

January 28th, 2009 - Business & Finance

Over the years in recruitment, I have seen many job applicants make the same mistake again and again. This is a fatal mistake that I feel need to be addressed. These are the list of things that you should not do in the event of applying for jobs.

Accenture Philippines, 500 employees down

January 17th, 2009 - Business & Finance

MANILA, Philippines – Outsourcing firm Accenture said it is laying off at least 500 workers in the country due to a “redundancy” program.

Accenture is growing?

December 27th, 2008 - Business & Finance

While most companies are pulling back and announcing layoffs, Accenture (NYSE: ACN) continues to grow at a nice pace. Basically, the main headwind has been currency volatility, not problems with getting new business

Changing your Financial Attitude

November 25th, 2008 - Business & Finance, Lounge

Let’s face it, almost all of us go through some tight financial times through our lives, but how we look at and face those times can set you apart from the crowd. It’s kind of that, the glass can be half-full OR half-empty situation. Some people who are in a tight financial situation will let [...]

Accenture Layoffs

November 14th, 2008 - Business & Finance

Depressing news in the Philippine outsourcing industry, I got this via e-mail.

Spam business is good!

November 11th, 2008 - Business & Finance, Tech & Online

Study: Storm botnet brought in daily profits of up to $9,500
9.5k per day, mmmmm…

Volkswagen briefly became the world’s biggest company

November 3rd, 2008 - Business & Finance, Motoring

Late post, but this is quite interesting:
Volkswagen briefly became the world’s biggest company by market value Tuesday, as short sellers continued to pile into the stock on weekend news Porsche had bought up much of VW’s remaining free float.

How To Establish A Strong Marketing Strategy

October 16th, 2008 - Business & Finance

As a business owner, you won’t have any difficulties looking for marketing strategies to help you stay in the game. In fact, marketing strategies are a dime a dozen, and you can find them almost everywhere – in the Internet, books, reference materials, and even on cereal boxes.

Good and bad news for AMD fans

October 12th, 2008 - Business & Finance, Tech & Online

Some good / bad news for AMD fanboys like me. We all know AMD is losing money against Intel and AMD’s ownership in ATI isn’t that profitable. The bad: AMD splits into two. The good: AMD gets more money.
Today AMD announced a shocking decision that will rock the computer industry — in order to try [...]


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