Posts Tagged ‘economy’







Microsoft has US$47B to spend

May 11th, 2008 - Business & Finance

In a recent statement from Microsoft said that it was leaving its offer to buy Yahoo. The bid reached $47.5B or $33 per share. Now that they have new plans, let’s find out what they can buy with the same amount of moolah.

Intel Philippines, closing down?

April 15th, 2008 - Business & Finance, Tech & Online

Intel Philippines said to close down its 10-year old manufacturing plant in Cavite later this year. A few years ago, the company closed down its Makati plant in order to concentrate on its Cavite operations. According to some insiders, one of Intel Philippines’ reasons to halt its south of manila facility is because of rising [...]

Made in the USA

December 17th, 2007 - Business & Finance

Just about everything is manufactured in China these days and fuel prices are soaring and at this time we’re experiencing a weakening US Dollar and a much active Euro. The MarketWatch recently published “The lure of ‘Made in America’ Weak dollar, costly crude mean foreign companies are looking anew at U.S.”