In photo (from left to right): Karla Cruz, GCash Strategy and Implementation Head, Gibs Gumapo, GCash Head of Security, Atty. Gilbert Escoto, GCash Head of Legal, Usec. Alexander Ramos, Head of CICC, Atty. Avery Anatalio of GCash Legal team, and Atty. Alvin Navarro of CICC Legal team GCash legal and […]
IMF: PHL economy to grow 6% in 2023; 5.5%-6% in 2024
Buildings are seen along EDSA in Quezon City, July 3, 2022. — PHILIPPINE STAR/ MIGUEL DE GUZMAN MANILA – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) kept its economic growth forecast for the Philippines this year at 6.0%, and projected next year’s gross domestic product expansion to come in between 5.5% and […]
Nearly three quarters of SMEs owners feel isolated from friends and family
<?xml encoding=”utf-8″ ??> Nearly three quarters of small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs) owners feel isolated from their friends and family as a result of the hours they work. A study, of SME leaders and decision makers, found 59% can ‘never switch off’ from their job. This has caused 75% to […]
eBay UK launches climate training scheme for SMEs
<?xml encoding=”utf-8″ ??> eBay UK is launching a climate training programme for the 200,000+ small businesses that sell goods on its platform. Called the ‘carbon academy’, the programme is open to all eBay UK sellers and is being hosted as part of a partnership between eBay and Climate Partner. The […]
Digital adoption in UK SMEs backed by £4.5M university investment
<?xml encoding=”utf-8″ ??> Three universities have been awarded a share of funding to drive digital innovation across UK SMEs, as part of the HNCDI programme The Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation (HNCDI) programme seeks to improve digital adoption across businesses, targeting funding and support toward UK SMEs – small […]
Disney+ and Hulu to combine content in single US app in to stem losses
<?xml encoding=”utf-8″ ??> Disney has announced plans to combine content from its Disney+ and Hulu streaming services in the US. The move comes after Disney+ lost four million subscribers in the first three months of the year, and the firm is under pressure to make its streaming business profitable. The […]
New CBI boss Rain Newton Smith doesn’t take lobby group’s future ‘for granted’
<?xml encoding=”utf-8″ ??> The new head of the crisis-hit CBI, Rain Newton Smith, has said she does not take the future of the group “for granted” and warned the task of winning back trust from businesses is “as big as it is urgent”. Newton Smith, who was parachuted in to […]
UK will have to raise retirement age after election, minister says
<?xml encoding=”utf-8″ ??> Ministers will have to “grasp the nettle” on bringing forward the rise in the state pension age to 68 in the first couple of years of the next parliament, Mel Stride, the work and pensions secretary, has suggested. After delaying the decision because of stalling life expectancy, […]
Elon Musk announces he has found new Twitter CEO
<?xml encoding=”utf-8″ ??> Twitter’s CEO, Elon Musk, said on Thursday that he has found a new chief executive for the social media platform and that she will be starting in about six weeks. “My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops,” Musk said […]
UK economy grows 0.1% in the first quarter
<?xml encoding=”utf-8″ ??> The UK economy eked out growth in the first quarter of the year, accelerating at a modest pace to ensure that the economy is not at immediate risk of recession. Quarterly growth between January and March rose by 0.1 per cent compared with the same period last […]