You Won’t Get Rich in the Stock Market Unless…

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Andrew Stotz, CFA, an award-winning financial analyst with more than two decades of experience in Asia, is coming to Philippines to conduct a seminar on his upcoming book, “You Won’t Get Rich in the Stock Market Until You Change the Way You Think about It” happening this March 19, 2015 at the Ugnayang La Salle, De La Salle University – Dasmariñas, Dasmariñas City, Cavite.

“I am very happy to come to Philippines again and share to 2,000 students the 12 investing principles from my newest book You Won’t Get Rich in the Stock Market Until You Change the Way You Think about It”, says Andrew.

In his presentation, Andrew will review the principles, showing where they came from and most importantly, what a person needs to know about them to build a sturdy financial future.

“It has been a journey for me to come up with a road map that anyone can follow and implement. I am excited to help students construct their own financial plan as I walk them through each point”, says Andrew. After the seminar, attendees will be equipped with a new hope and a clear path toward managing their own financial lives. And crucially, they will have in their hands a simple financial plan that they can follow for the rest of their lives.

PLDT SME Nation, Samsung Philippines and Microsoft Philippines forge a Partnership to Empower SMEs

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Three Industry Leaders: PLDT SME Nation, Samsung Philippines and Microsoft Philippines forge a Partnership to Empower SMEs with Broadband and Digital Solutions

The Philippines’ fast-growing digital, social and mobile users definitely creates unprecedented opportunities for the 800,000 strong small and medium enterprise (SME) market segment. However, the challenge today is how SMEs can efficiently tap and engage this community. Today, there are over 34 million Facebook users, over 10 million Twitter followers and with over 44 million Filipino internet users and counting.   

With this, PLDT SME Nation partners with Samsung & Microsoft Philippines to create innovative business solutions that will enable entrepreneurs to run their business better, grow faster, be more globally competitive and engage with the country’s digital, social and mobile population.

SMEs can now enjoy the benefits of having PLDT SME Nation’s premium and faster fixed and wireless broadband solutions running on our latest fiber and LTE network. These broadband offerings provide unlimited access which give entrepreneurs the ability to continuously conduct online activities without the fear of bandwidth throttling. Our services also feature committed information rates or CIR, which guarantee minimum bandwidth speeds for businesses and a static IP used to power up their websites and enable faster inter-office data transfers. 

WD Delivers World’s Most Power-Efficient High-Capacity

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WD, a Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) company and world leader in storage today introduced new datacenter hard drives that deliver to today’s modern datacenter architects the lowest power consumption of any high-capacity 3.5-inch hard drive available today. The WD Re+™ hard drive family is the newestcomponent of WD’s full, tiered portfolio of high-capacity datacenter storage devices. Further expanding that portfolio willbe 6 terabyte (TB) capacitiesfor WD’spopular WD Re™ and WD Se™ datacenter product lines, providing customers a spectrum of capabilities, tiered totheirvaried demands of application intensity, power optimization and cost efficiency.

In the modern datacenter, the total cost of ownership (TCO) formula is comprised of capacity, price, power consumption and the relationships between these variables. The WD Re+ drive provides the mostpower efficient andhigh-intensity high-capacity platform available today.

With power consumption a primaryconsideration in today’slarge web-scale cloud infrastructures,and the WD Re+ drive consuming only 6 wattsfor 6 TB, customers’ TCOsincrease and savings for large deployments could be millions of dollars per year.
“Dollarsand watts are the finite currenciesin the modern datacenter,” said Matt Rutledge, senior vice president of storage technology at WD. “With a leading watt-per-gigabyte ratio and the long-trusted reliability of the WD Re hard drive platform, WD Re+ offers our customers having limited power budgets a WD Re-class choice for tier-2, high-intensity storage applications.Massive, scale-out deployments must deliver tremendous value to customers across a range of applications, while providing a healthy return to the infrastructure owner. WD is focused on offering that value across its portfolio.”