Smartmatic won the public bidding for the 23,000 machines after offering a bid of P2.2 billion (P1.7 billion for lease; P500 million for option to purchase) and offered P7.862 billion (P6.286 billion for lease and P1.576 billion for option to purchase) for the 70,977 OMR machines.
The Philippine operations of outsourcing giant Accenture announced that it has increased its maternity leave benefit to 120 calendar days of paid leave, from the statutory requirement of 60 days for normal delivery.
Twelve agencies from the government have already submitted their "Agency Data Inventories" to the open data task force and are currently available to the public.
Global consumers have lately become less interested in acquiring conventional notebooks with 15-inch displays, and they are instead shifting their spending to smaller product segments.
