6.6% Increase In Philippines’ GDP Indicates Progress

When 2012 ended, there has been a significant improvement in the Philippines’ GDP (2012). In fact, there has been a 6.6% increase making the country as one of Asia’s best performing economies. This sign of progress will just convince a lot of foreign investors or even convince them to spend their retirement years living in [...]

Maryland Voters Approve Question 7

Two weeks ago Maryland voters approved Question 7, which authorized the opening of a sixth casino in the state. The measure also allows for all existing casinos to add table games such as blackjack and roulette, and to stay open twenty-four hours a day. Four years ago voters had got the ball rolling with the [...]

Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Certification

As the call for the E-Business skill set grows in the IT industry, you may need to validate your skills and abilities in managing a number of Oracle technologies, including the 10g and 11g databases as well as the Oracle Applications R12 Release. In order to formally certify your skills in managing these products, Oracle [...]

No Tier 5 Extension for 99ers: Unemployment Benefits Extension Subject to Amendments

The US Congress midterm elections were already finished but until now, no Tier 5 unemployment extension of benefits has been passed in the Congress. More so, the original unemployment extension entitled HR 4213 signed by President Obama last July is set to expire on November 30, 2010, which is less than two weeks from now. [...]

Op-Ed: Weapons of Mass Data

I was talking to a friend in South Asia on Skype this morning, and we were discussing what we both thought was quite remarkable. We talked about information. Data. He remarked that it was interesting how bits of information, files small enough to fit in a 4GB flash drive, can be so powerful and influential. [...]

Op-Ed: Whispers in the Dark

According to Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), about 207,754 people become victims of sexual assault each year. That’s just the figure in the United States that have been reported. Imagine the number of women, girls, boys, and even men who are sexually assaulted in developing countries. Many of us have heard about women [...]

Eyebrows Raised For Chris Brown and Rihanna’s Recent Collaboration

It’s been 3 years since the controversial ‘Chris Brown beating Rihanna” news and now both of them will be together again. Not as a couple though but with a recent album collaboration. The news started to go viral in the internet world when the pair intentionally leaked it via social networking site, Twitter. Rihanna’s recent [...]

Op-Ed: Memories of Mexico

I remember the local bus stations, the restaurants I dined at and, more vividly, the faces of generous and easy-going people I had crossed paths with. What I don’t remember are the scenes of carnage, the decapitated heads and Mexican armed forces patrolling the streets in diesel-belching vehicles. It was the end of Spring Break, [...]

Bachelor President Of The Philippines Celebrates 52nd Birthday

A man whose parents fought for the country’s democracy and now running the entire country Philippines as president, Benigno S. Aquino III has reached the age 52. Normally, 52 is an age of a married man but President “Noy” Aquino is a bachelor to behold. Some are saying he chose to become one when he [...]

E-commerce revolution has driven discounting change

Here’s the latest news from Microsoft by Dan Smith. He said that the e-commerce revolution has changed the way discounting is applied to brands. Director of fashion e-tailer theOutnet.com Stephanie Phair claimed that discounting is something that “used to happen in friends and family sales, sample sales or in bricks and mortar outlets 25 miles [...]

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