Posts Tagged ‘Filipinos’

Filipinos are saving more money

Monday, June 9th, 2008

A Nielsen Company global survey reveals that Filipinos are setting aside more money these days.

Watch this interview with Benedicto Cid, Jr., managing director of The Nielsen Company Philippines.

Online petition for Baguio

Monday, June 9th, 2008

I saw this last week, as I was browsing stories about my hometown. Today, I saw this written in Filipino Voices. The city known for its pine trees and cold climate is now under threat from environmental degradation, the residents say. There’s a plea from residents and some people to stop further degradation in the name of development. See the petition here.

The current city mayor, however, had this to say, noting that there should be no cause for alarm.

RP firm develops platform for Facebook developers

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Cebu-based Morph Labs has launched a platform for Facebook application developers.

Excerpt:

MANDALUYONG CITY, Philippines — A Philippine software company said it was allowing any company to use its web-based environment to deploy Facebook applications using an open source framework, an executive told reporters here.