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7 June

NetSuite announces cloud alliance with Microsoft

NetSuite Inc., the leading provider of cloud-based financials/enterprise resource planning (ERP) and omnichannel commerce software suites, announced recently that it had formed a cloud alliance with Microsoft to create new and innovative solutions that connect NetSuite’s cloud ERP to Microsoft Office 365, Windows and Microsoft Azure, which are expected to deliver high-impact value, productivity and simplicity to mutual markets and …

7 June

Happy Plugs offers function, style in tech accessories

Now that mobile technology has been integrated into our lives, accessories are inspiring more companies to try to develop products that enhance mobile devices and embody their users’ distinctive style at the same time.

7 June

Comedienne McCarthy sets her sights on 007 in ‘Spy’

Review by Jake Coyle / The Associated Press Ridiculous questions about the funniness and bankability of women have clouded exactly what’s going on here: Nobody is a better comedic actor right now than Melissa McCarthy. She’s a combustible ball of comic fury rolled up in Chaplinesque sweetness, equally capable of profanity-laced verbal virtuosity as perfectly timed pratfalls. In her latest, …

7 June

CineFilipino 2015 deadline extended to June 15

CineFilipino Film Festival 2015, organized and led by Unitel Productions, and in partnership with the MVP Group of Companies, has announced that it is extending the deadline for the submission of entries to the festival to June 15.

7 June

Preparing perfect pies (First part)

Wouldn’t it be perfect to come home and smell the aroma of freshly baked homemade pie? It would surely leave a wonderful memory to those who experience this. Growing up, I thought pie-making was hard to do, given the things it requires—the cutting in of the fat into the flour, the handling of the dough when adding the water, the …

1 June

Underspending does it again

By Luis Leoncio Despite repeated warnings from economists and other experts, the Aquino administration continues to underspend and as a result, the gross domestic product (GDP) expanded a disappointing 5.2 percent in the first quarter, the slowest pace in three years.

1 June

Suit eyed on AMLC report leakage

Lawyers of Vice President Jejomar Binay are reported to be mulling over the possible of filing cases against media outfits that published or aired the report of the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) on his alleged multibillion-peso accounts, which was the basis of a Court of Appeals freeze order on his assets. The Binay camp had described the AMLC report “erroneous” and …

1 June

Tzu Chi as global charity game-changer (First part)

By Lito U. Gagni I first learned about Tzu Chi and its charity work in the aftermath of Supertyphoon Yolanda (international code name: Haiyan) that devastated Eastern Visayas when I read the news about its cash-for-relief program that cleaned Tacloban and its environs of tons of mud, heaps of garbage and washed-out clothes.

1 June

IMF against Senate bid to lower income tax

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has effectively rejected proposals in Congress to lower individual income-tax payments through a bill updating the tax schedules, as the multilateral lender is requiring a counterpart measure that would offset the revenue losses.

1 June

IMF urges higher fuel tax as oil prices fall

By Riza Lozada The International Monetary Fund (IMF) raised the need for the government to increase the fuel tax to recoup lost revenues as a result of the dwindling prices of oil products. Chikahisa Sumi, the head of the IMF mission that recently visited the country, said the increase in fuel excise taxes becomes more urgent if a tax package …

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June, 2015