The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

Soon, any user of Google’s Street View app will be able to capture their own imagery of a precise location — or an entire street — simply by using their smartphone camera. Thus, web users will be able to help grow the app’s already immense database. 

Despite the cancellation of the enormously famous giant lantern festival due to the COVID-19 pandemic, San Fernando’s local officials and civic leaders chose instead to showcase the colorful creations of the city’s barangays to an online audience to keep the 112-year-old tradition going.

There are dime-a-dozen awards in this republic. 

While Pauleen Luna has confined herself as the domesticated full-time wife of Vic Sotto and resigned to an on and off appearances in “Eat Bulaga” in this COVID-19 pandemic and Kristine Hermosa is expecting her fifth baby with husband Oyo Boy Sotto, the other looker in Bea Alonzo is the most available not only in time of the coronavirus climate …

Jessy Mendiola and Luis Manzano just got engaged – taking their four-year relationship to the next level. 

Beauties to be relevant in these times of turmoil and catastrophe, they must immerse with the common people and identify with them. 

Wait till Team Payaman—a group of performers for anything goes acts on YouTube—invade the traditional media like television. 

Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) chairman William Ramirez said on Friday that he prefers that the controversial Congress bill seeking to ban minors from competing in combat sports be amended instead of fully junking it. 

Pauline del Rosario came through in a close backside duel by taking advantage of Princess Superal’s mishap to clinch victory by one stroke in the ICTSI Riviera Championship at the Langer course in Silang, Cavite. 

Undefeated Reymart “Assassin” Gaballo of General Santos City will replace Nonito Donaire Jr. to face former IBF bantamweight titleholder Emmanuel “Manny” Rodriguez of Puerto Rico on Dec. 19 at the Showtime Championship Boxing card, live from the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut.