Is there more to social-media commerce than advertising revenue?

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Is there more to social-media commerce than advertising revenue?

I noticed in an article in CNN.com listing The 10 most innovative Web companies that the only reference to a specific revenue generating activity is Twitter’s selling “Promoted Tweets and Trends”. Other than that all the rest merely boast their millions of users, millions of searches, millions of “check ins”, millions of subscribers and followrs,…

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Tech Talk

PNoy: being president is about hard work and not about popularity

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PNoy: being president is about hard work and not about popularity

They say love hurts. Or at least being rejected does. Whether it is a lover or a friend – they say that being jilted is just like getting punched in the gut. Spare a thought for Philippine President Noynoy Aquino. PNoy and his team were left licking their wounds after their most recent approval rating…

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Government, Media, Politics

Ms Carmi Martin: college graduate at 47!

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Ms Carmi Martin: college graduate at 47!

Congratulations to star of the 1980s Carmi Martin for graduating at 47 with a fine arts degree from the Philippine Women’s University (PWU)! Martin co-starred with Freddie Web in the seminal Filipino sitcom Chicks to Chicks at the height of her fame. Martin in an interview said in Tagalog that showbiz for her is not…

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Glitz and Glamour

Are younger computer users more technologically savvy?

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Are younger computer users more technologically savvy?

Remember the old days when you had to know how to program a computer in order to use one? Nowadays using a computer is like watching TV. We use it without having to know what makes it tick. There is no appreciation of how clever one had to be to come up with an app…

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Tech Talk

What does one use an iPad for?

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What does one use an iPad for?

Always on and ready for use, lightweight, slim, clean-lined, and sexily minimalist. You can read books and magazines on it, play games, and do other media-rich stuff. Even when it is off, it looks great. It’s arguably the coolest piece of hi-tech hardware in the market. All good. I’ve just got one question though: What…

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Real advise for Filipinos desperately praying for jobs

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Real advise for Filipinos desperately praying for jobs

Joblessness is indeed a big problem in the Philippines. It is Third World labour supply on steroids — an exceedingly pathetic situation that sees the economic value of Filipino labour utterly flattened under the sheer weight of the vast numbers of warm bodies out on the streets in jeepney- and bus-loads looking for jobs. The…

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Development, Economy, Education, Lifestyle, Religion

Noynoy Aquino is on a war path against his critics

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When asked by reporters what he was going to do about the dip in his administration’s approval ratings (which slipped several points to 75 percent in the latest survey), Philippine President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino’s reply was a classic: he said he would further intensify — and be even more “aggressive” with — trumpeting his “achievements”….

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Government, Media

Does Filipino Society treat Children Poorly?

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Does Filipino Society treat Children Poorly?

Many were outraged when Willie Revillame goaded a child named Jan-Jan to dance in a macho dancer style. Even while he was already crying, he was still goaded to dance. Needless to say, it already caused a Net Rage and it revived initiatives to permanently censure the long-notorious Revillame, who had smears on his name…

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Culture, Media