Citing a report from the Bureau of Local Employment, DOLE sec. Rosalinda Baldoz noted that the healthcare information-outsourcing sector of the BPO industry is considered one of the fast-growing sectors that offer over 100,000 medical-related jobs to nursing graduates.
Instead of shunning it, Globe Telecom is wholeheartedly embracing the proliferation of free messaging apps such as Line, WeChat, Viber, and KakaoTalk, and even expects it to deliver more revenues to the company.
The Laguna facility is the fourth overall for IBM in two years following similar launches in Pampanga and Davao in 2012 and then Naga City in the Bicol region last May.
A local IT company says businesses or ordinary website owners may no longer see the need to have a separate mobile site ? or even mobile apps ? with the emergence of adaptive design technology in Web development.
MILESTONE. Convergys CEO and president Andrea Ayers (center) answers a question during a recent briefing for the company?s 10th anniversary in the Philippines. With her are Marife Zamora, senior vice president and managing director for Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, and Africa (AP and EMEA) and Ivic Mueco, vice president and country manager for the Philippines.
Two vital pillars of the local IT-Business Process Management (IT-BPM) industry ? game development and medical transcription ? are confident of increasing their workforce in the next three years.
DataOne Asia has urged local businesses to tap cloud technology to address the challenge of high IT staff turnover, particularly an off-site IT infrastructure that can be managed remotely.
Smart has begun testing LTE Advanced, a mobile broadband technology which can deliver data rates in excess of 200 mega bytes per second (mbps), up to a possible 700 mbps.
The factory currently employs 449 individuals as of July 2013. With the first and second factories in full operation, number of the total employees is expected rise to 3,500 by 2015.
IMI's revenues, however, reached $350.5 million, an 8% year-on-year increase due mainly to the company?s strong business expansion in Europe, Mexico, and the Philippines.
