Richest Men in the World 2010
Here’s the list of Forbes “The World’s Billionaires”:
#1. Carlos Slim Helu
Age: 70
Fortune: Self made
Source: Telecom
Net Worth: $53.5 billion
Country of Citizenship: Mexico
Industry: Communications
Marital Status: widowed, 6 children
Telecom tycoon who pounced on privatization of Mexico’s national telephone company in the 1990s becomes world’s richest person for first time after coming in third place last year. [...]
Most Corrupt Countries in Asia Pacific
A survey released on Monday showed that the Philippines was rated the fourth most corrupt of 16 major Asia-Pacific investment destinations.
Indonesia
Cambodia
Vietnam
Philippines
Thailand
India
China
Malaysia
Taiwan
South Korea
Macau
Japan
United States
Hong Kong
Australia
Singapore
SmarTalk: SMART’s Ultimate Unlimited Call Promo
Smart Communications Inc. (SMART), the country’s leading wireless services provider, launched today a new service that enables SMART Buddy and SMART Gold subscribers to make unlimited calls to over 38 million mobile phone users on the SMART network.
Called Smartalk, the new service will be available starting June 26, does not require any changes in SIM [...]
Call center employees sue Dell Philippines
One of the biggest call center firms in the country is in hot water. Seventy call center employees yesterday filed a legal suit against Dell International Services Philippines, a leading business process outsourcing company, for alleged illegal dismissal.
Together with their lawyers, the dismissed Dell employees trooped to the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) office in [...]
Yahoo to close GeoCities, other services in revamp
SUNNYVALE, California -Yahoo Inc. said Thursday it plans to close GeoCities, a Web site publishing and hosting service it bought in May 1999 at the height of the dot-com boom for around $3 billion in stock.
The service will be shut down later this year. Visitors to the site now see a message that says new [...]
Cebu Pacific offers seat sale
MANILA, Philippines-Gokongwei-owned Cebu Pacific Air, Inc.is offering a seat sale from all of its hubs in Manila, Cebu, Clark and Davao until Thursday for June, July, & August travel, vice-president for marketing and distribution Candice Iyog said.
“We are positive that this seat sale will stimulate domestic and international travel during these traditionally lean months. This [...]
Globe’s New Mobile Internet Rates
Under Globe’s mobile surfing plans, the company offered monthly subscriptions starting from P149, which provides 10 hours of mobile internet service,P399 (30 hours), & P799 (60 hours).
Globe has also provided postpaid plans for users of the BlackBerry smartphone starting from P700 for 5megabytes of data usage, P850 (8 MB), and P1100 (10 MB).
According to Globe, [...]
YouTube joins Sony, others to show movies
Agence France-Presse|WASHINGTON -YouTube has reached agreement with Sony Pictures and other Hollywood studios to show full-length movies on the video-sharing website, leading technology blogs reported on Thursday.
TechCrunch, a well-connected Silicon Valley blog, said that other studios and companies that have agreed to allow their content to be posted on the Google-owned YouTube include MGM, CBS, [...]
Google profit up but revenue drops for first time
Agence France-Presse|NEW YORK – Google reported a 9.2 percent rise in quarterly net profit on Thursday, but the Internet search giant said revenue declined for the first time ever in consecutive quarters.
The Mountain View, California-based company reported a net profit for the first quarter of the year of $1.42 billion compared with $1.31 billion in [...]
RP lands 4th in remittances in 2008: World Bank
The $16.43 billion that overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) sent home last year placed the country in the fourth spot in the world’s top recipients of remittances, the World Bank said.
The top three are India ($45 billion), China ($34 billion), and Mexico ($26 billion).
Landing in fifth place is Poland with $11billion, followed by Nigeria ($10 billion), [...]
