Tag: investing

#Cybersecurity: next Big Thing or next Big Hype?

June 18, 2014 benign0 1 Comment

Remember the (year-two-thousand) Y2K “issue” of 1999? A big scam in retrospect. Big techos like Accenture were laughing all the way to the bank after the smoke cleared. Basically the “bug” that needed to be fixed, according to tech consultants, involved billions of lines in installed computer code worldwide that stored year data in only…

Crime, Tech Talk

The Philippines: One Big Broken Promise to investors

June 25, 2013 benign0 3 Comments

Hardly surprising. Much of the “gains” in the Philippine economy scored by the administration’s media lackeys and spin doctors mainly on the basis of a prolonged bullish run by the share market is turning out to be no more than smoke-and-mirrors. A surging sharemarket in essence says nothing about the underlying substance of a national…

Economy, Money Talks