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February 14, 2012

Level Up and e-Games merger announced

This may come as a surprise but local online game companies Level Up! and E-Games has finalized talks of a merger. eGames made the disclosure earlier this morning at the PSE (since it’s a publicly listed company).

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PC Gaming
September 29, 2010

October PC Sale: Lenovo, Sony & RedFox

October is looking to be a great month to check out on PC Sales. Several companies like Lenovo, Sony & RedFox are doing some deals you might be interested in. Details after the jump.

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Personal Computing
December 31, 2009

Our Biggest Tech Stories of 2009

Looking back in the last 12 months, we’ve seen quite a number of exciting developments and news that we broke here on YugaTech. Let’s do a quick run down here before the year ends.

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Site Updates
January 16, 2009

Accenture Manila cuts hundreds of jobs

I got a call last night from a media researcher (for an investigative TV program) asking me about my take on the recent series of layoffs in the local BPO sector. They wanted to know if I think the job cuts were  related to the global financial crisis.

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Careers
July 11, 2008

Intel likely to move fab to Cabuyao, Laguna

When the rumor that Intel Philippines was facing an impending closure in April this year, the company corrected this — saying that it’s weighing its options and could transfer its plant somewhere else. June has past and Intel officials have not released anything. I’ve sent out interview questions in the hopes of getting some updates.

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Careers
May 28, 2008

Philippines ranked #8 on Worldwide Porn Revenues

With about $1 billion in annual revenues, the Philippines is tied at No. 8 with Canada and Taiwan for the largest revenues from pornography in 2006. This is according to the Internet Pornography Statistics report by Jerry Ropelato of Top Ten Reviews. For a poor 3rd 2nd world country, that’s something, huh?

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Curious
December 10, 2006

Thousand Bears for Bicol Project (TBB)

Please help by spreading the word or donating stuffed toys or bears for this cause: Thousand Bears for Bicol Project

Today we received our 300th bear :) I will post photos in my blog this evening and send you all an update. For now, I wish to thank everyone who has so far contributed to the campaign — A grade 5 boy from Ateneo de Manila whose mommy showed him the blog entry and so he was moved to donate 20 toy puppies (puppies are good too!) ; 20 bears from a friend of mine from HSBC Hongkong; another 20 bears from a dear friend who has always been supportive of our causes; another 20 from my good friend Andrea’s kids.

Andrea has also been able to hook us up with Operation Compassion in Legazpi, together, we will help oversee the distribution of the bears on a date very close to Christmas (either December 22 or 23). Our prayer now is to hold a little salo-salo for the kids (almost a thousand of them) perhaps in one of the evacuation centers.

All day yesterday, I was worried about how I would get all the bears (and other furry friends) to Bicol and today the Lord answered my prayers. Through the help of our home church, Greenhills Christian Fellowship under the auspices of our churchmate Brother Mike Asperin, we will be transporting all 1000 bears for free to Legazpi on a PAF plane! God is truly wonderful and provides ALL the time.

Filipino associations in Manitoba, Canada and Sacramento, California are also getting together to send over some bears. I am amazed at the power of His hand when it moves the hearts of people everywhere. Please continue to keep those bears coming as we are still quite far from our target of 1000. Kindly forward this email to those whom you think would be interested to help us out.

What do we need?

Teddy Bears – new or in good condition
or friendly looking and cuddly stuffed toys that can be hugged by the children

We are also accepting art materials – notebooks, pens, pencils and crayons that we can pack and give to the children. In addition to play therapy, art therapy is also a proven effective tool in helping heal the children.

Where can you drop off the materials?

Quezon City — 41 Milkyway Drive, Blue Ridge, Quezon City contact – 918-906-8852

Makati — The Room Upstairs, 2nd floor, LRI Building, Nicanor Garcia (formerly Reposo), Makati City tel no. 899-9318

Alabang – Room 306, Medical Arts Building, Asian Hospital (clinic of Dr. Noemi Guloy)

Can we have the bears picked-up?

Some companies and schools are doing “bear drives” so yes, we can pick up a minimum of 30 bears from your school or office.

A Thousand Bears for Bicol (TBB) is an exercise in watching the way God’s hand works and seeing how wonderful and awesome He is in His kindness and faithfulness towards all of us. God cares for all the little children and is especially loving of widows and orphans. I know that through you, He cares for His children in Bicol. I pray that you allow yourself to be His vessel of love and kindness.
Thank you once again for spreading the word and God bless you all this holiday season.

Blessings and teddybear hugs,
Cathy Babao

http://www.nancydrewandme.blogspot.com

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Orphaned
February 24, 2006

Corporate Blogging in the Philippines

Jan emailed me yesterday and asked me about the state of corporate blogging in the country:

Hi and good day! I’m currently looking for companies in the Philippines who allow their employees to blog about their products, processes, etc… Companies who embrace corporate blogging. Is there a company right now who openly does this? If not, do you know of an employee who’s allowed to blog about his company’s products, processes, etc…? Even a company who do corporate blogging internally would be appreciated.

I’m helping a friend with her thesis and we need someone whom we can interview regarding the subject matter. I’ve been googling for a while now and it seems that not a lot, if any, of companies do corporate blogging in Philippines. And the I saw your post about corporate blogging so I figured that you might be able to point us in the right direction.

Thank you very much for your time. A kind response would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Jan Alonzo

I thought I’d share my response to the rest of my readers here.

  • Around January 2005, Kokoro Works launched with co-founder Gabby Dizon evangelizing corporate blogging especially for small businesses. They have a corporate blog here and a related interview here at Inq7.net.
  • January 27, 2005, Trends and Technologies (a leading Solutions Provider in the Information and Communications Technology. With extensive experience in Voice and Data Communications, we are capable of delivering the best services to the customers, from design and consultancy, to installation and maintenance.) launches its corporate blog called BlogIT.
  • Last month, Sheero Media, a local web development company based in Quezon City, sought my help in looking for corporate bloggers for their clients which I posted here.
  • Last month, Outsource2Philippines (O2P) added a section on their corporate website a blog which allows company executives to share information and industry news. Inq7.net covered the story here.
  • Domain Registrar dot.PH and provider of blogging server i.PH was actually hunting for a corporate blogger last year. An offer was given to Connie of houseonahill.net but she declined. dot.PH has since scrapped the idea of corporate blogging.

There are a couple of other people I know who are into corporate blogging but I’m not sure if I am at liberty to disclose about them here. However, the companies involve are not really based locally but they have the bloggers working from an office in Makati.

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Problogging