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Creative summit aims to empower SMEs in Cebu
By Nikka Garriga CEBU CITY, CEBU— Local entrepreneurs and designers gathered in a creative summit here in an effort to further promote and develop Filipino craftsmanship and innovative...
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Young Pinoy engineers find niche in sports tech innovation
By Nikka Garriga QUEZON CITY, METRO MANILA— What started out as a project turned four college students into young ‘technopreneurs’. Gary Villame was an Electronics and Communications Engineering...
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Why Mindanao farmers are better off planting ‘black rice’
By Alexander Villafania DAVAO CITY, DAVAO DEL SUR – Black rice, otherwise known as “forbidden rice” because it was once said to be served only to royalty, can help regain lost glory for the Philippines...
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Google’s Joe Fry on how Filipino SMEs can be creative in business
By Nikka Garriga CEBU CITY, CEBU – Any attempt to build an enterprise starts with that one eureka moment of what product or service we believe would sell. The approach towards coming up with business...
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Loudbasstard: A Cebuano flair for the indigenously creative
By Nikka Garriga CEBU CITY, CEBU – Ideas, be it interesting, creative or simply brilliant, tend to strike when least expected. Business partners Koh Onozawa and Franz Ignacio found their bright idea...
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Rags2Riches’ Reese Fernandez-Ruiz on being a ‘social entrepreneur’
By Nikka Garriga CEBU CITY, CEBU — Our decisions today will affect the lives of the people around us in the future. This is a philosophy that 25-year-old Reese Fernandez-Ruiz had in mind when she...
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Cebu entrepreneur turns indigenous materials into eco-fashion
By Nikka Garriga MANDAUE CITY, CEBU – While others adhere to a more personal aesthetic or design philosophy, Christine Hamoy-Kintanar’s idea of fashion and design is geared toward promoting her...
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Co.lab defines ‘co-working’ for Filipino startups
By Alexander Villafania MANDALUYONG CITY, METRO MANILA – A cozy chair in a corner but still with lots of working space and some free-flowing coffee is the type of place any creative individual would...
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Cebu ‘greentrepreneur’ finds success in eco-friendly home furnishing
By Nikka Garriga COMPOSTELA, CEBU— For many, the need to lean toward eco-friendly practices is a conscious effort to alleviate the devastating effects of climate change. But for Cebuano entrepreneur...
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Paper business brings livelihood to this troubled Misamis town
By Alexander Villafania SALAY, MISAMIS ORIENTAL – For generations, people in the mountainous rural town of Salay have been living off the land through agriculture and fishing. In the late 1980s, its...
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Why smartphones, not PCs, will benefit more rural Pinoys
By Alexander Villafania MAKATI CITY, METRO MANILA – By now, mobile phone penetration in the Philippines would already be 90 million, the majority of which are prepaid users living in rural locations....
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Pinoy ‘citizen cartographers’ cite benefits of mapping
By Alexander Villafania MAKATI CITY, METRO MANILA – Back in the day, map-making is something done by professional cartographers. But map-making isn’t always a glamorous job. It requires a lot of...
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Hopes high for Pinoy game developers with Xbox One, PS4
By Alexander Villafania QUEZON CITY, METRO MANILA – With the rest of the outsourcing sector already growing, the government now has lofty hopes of growing game development to $60 million by the end of...
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Sun Cellular looks to expand SME services
By Alexander Villafania MANDALUYONG CITY, METRO MANILA – Two years since the company was acquired by the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), mobile telecommunications company Sun...
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Boot camp aims to empower Filipino women entrepreneurs
By Nikka Garriga PASAY CITY, METRO MANILA – The Samahan ng mga Pilipina para sa Reporma at Kaunlaran (SPARK!) and the US Embassy is set to stage this year’s Young Women Entrepreneurs Boot Camp in an...
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Isabela billed as ‘City of Charm’ at China trade expo
ILAGAN CITY, ISABELA – Considered the Rice and Corn Granary of the North, Isabela is also being billed as the country’s “City of Charm” at the 10th China-ASEAN Expo (CAEXPO) which will be held in...
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Some tips on how to establish a ‘sustainable products’ business
By Nikka Garriga COMPOSTELA, CEBU—From fresh produce and cosmetics to fashion and other items, the growing niche of environment conscious consumers have become a lucrative business opportunity for both...
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Online video game auction: a lucrative business in PH?
By Alexander Villafania TAGUIG CITY, METRO MANILA – A plethora of e-commerce sites have come and gone in the Philippines. These are in the form of direct selling (think Multiply.com now closed), penny...
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Fujifilm eyes to expand operations in Laguna plant
By Alexander Villafania CALAMBA CITY, LAGUNA – Japanese firm Fujifilm will be producing high-performance optical lenses in its first manufacturing plant at the Carmelray International Business Park in...
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PH e-commerce site targets casino ‘high rollers’
By Alexander Villafania PASAY CITY, METRO MANILA – Amid an overly-crowded group buying sites environment in the Philippines, a company is hoping to be more focused on selling items for a limited crowd,...
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