Archive for May, 2007

Bringing Your Business Online for Free – the ATACS example

Jasper Briones, a friend and former officemate of mine, recently brought to the Philippines a unique and highly-sophisticated kind of training guns that is currently being used by the United States military and police personnel for their trainings. Known as the Real Action Marker (RAM), the “simmunition” guns are a safe and effective training tool [...]

E-commerce in RP remains low – PIDS study

Not so good news. A recent study by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) indicated that “the Philippines has been left behind by its Asian neighbors in e-commerce activity, ranking even lower in a number of areas than Thailand and Indonesia, which started using the Internet at around the same time or even much [...]

It feels GREAT to be Pinoy!

Aileen, who got tagged by Marc, recently tagged me for the meme What are the 3 signs you see happening now that make you say, “It feels great to be Pinoy”. I believe that every Filipino should stop to think about this every once in a while. The good news for me about being Pinoy [...]

New Trends in Internet Marketing

The 38th National Marketing Conference of the Philippine Marketing Association (PMA), held yesterday and today at the Hotel Sofitel Philippine Plaza (formerly the Westin Philippine Plaza), features a wide array of speakers that will be talking about new methods, techniques and practices in marketing. With the theme “Da Marketing Code” (obviously inspired by Dan Brown’s [...]

Cheers for Top Pinoy Entrepreneurs in the US!

It’s always good news when we hear of fellow Pinoys abroad who have excelled and made a name for themselves in their respective fields of interest. I was recently informed that one of the co-founders of remithome, Yehey!‘s online remittance partner, will be recognized as 2007 Asian Entrepreneur of the Year in the Services category. [...]