With busy businesses to run, privacy can fall down the priority list for many CEOs. Nigel Jones, ex head of legal at Google EMEA and co-founder of the award-winning Privacy Compliance Hub explains how and why CEOs should give privacy the attention it deserves. Over the past few months, the Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Reed Online £40,000 for sending ...
Ampverse’s Filipino esports team, Minana. — Ampverse/Facebook Ampverse, an esports and Web3 company based in Singapore, will invest more than P100 million as it expands into the Philippines, its fifth market. “We love how social Filipinos are, and how passionate they are for gaming,” said Fernando M. Gutierrez, Ampverse chief executive officer (himself a Filipino). “There’s so much talent around ...
Retailers saw an unexpected pick-up in sales last month, but the mood among companies was still its bleakest since the start of the pandemic, a survey has suggested. Higher prices pushed up the total value of sales compared with August 2021, while volumes were flat, according to a monthly survey by the CBI. The net balance on its sentiment index ...
PHILIPPINE STAR/ MICHAEL VARCAS by Diego Gabriel C. Robles The National Government’s budget deficit narrowed in July, as government revenues grew by double-digits, the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) reported on Friday, with economists attributing this to the uptick in business activity as pandemic restrictions continued to ease. In a statement, the BTr said the budget gap stood at P86.8 ...
THE Marcos administration’s economic team assured that their proposed P5.268-trillion spending plan for 2023 will continue to support economic growth, even as they move to reduce the debt incurred amid the coronavirus pandemic and as risks to the outlook remain. “The multiplier effects of the proposed budget on the economy and on the various sectors, including the social sectors, are ...
Hustle PH co-founder Jason Gaguan presents to a panel of investors at The Final Pitch. Market research start-up Hustle PH partners with Union Bank’s open finance platform UBX, Philippine’s crypto giant Coins.ph, and payment solution leader Paymongo to dominate SEA’s insights industry. The collaboration was formed during CNN’s start-up reality show The Final Pitch wherein Hustle PH’s Jason Gaguan and ...
Better hiring practices from the employer’s end and upskilling from the employee’s end can minimize job mismatches, according to the employment website JobStreet. “Job mismatches are one of the primary reasons that new hires don’t stay in certain positions long-term, which translates to high turnover rates for the company,” said JobStreet Philippine country manager Philip A. Gioca, in an Aug. 24 ...
Bristol-based Anaphite, which is developing new technology to improve batteries for electric vehicles, has raised just under £1 million from Wealth Club clients under the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS). The funding was part of Anaphite’s latest £4.1 million funding institutional round, with Wealth Club taking 20% of the raise. Blue Wire Capital, OION, Zero Carbon Capital, Silicon Roundabout Ventures and ...
More homes were sold in the UK in July than in any other month this year, official figures show, but agents say buyers are showing more caution. Cost-of-living pressures were leading some to negotiate harder for a lower price, agents said. A total of 110,970 properties were sold in the UK during the month – the highest since September, HM ...
Workers at Chiltern Railways, Northern Trains and Transpennine Express say they will walk out in a dispute over pay but no dates have been set. A series of large-scale rail strikes have already happened this summer, causing disruption for millions. “Strikes are always the last resort, but you can see from the votes and turnout just how angry our members ...