A year and some two months after Amazon announced it to a flabbergasted North America, a decision has been made at last. Said decision was regarding the location of choice for a new corporate headquarters to house the ever growing organization of the online retailing giant, an HQ2 to its HQ1 in Seattle. Over 200…
It has been a real-life business drama that many feel has been going on for too long. September of last year saw global online retail giant Amazon stunning North America with its proposed plan of building a new corporate headquarters, codenamed HQ2, outside of their original home in Seattle. This spurred a frenzy of cities,…
While the companies involved tend not to point it out, it is rather plain to see that the telecommunications market in the Philippines is in the midst of a duopoly, where users of phones have choices that really only fall into two camps, that of Globe and that of PLDT/Smart. The government has been hoping…
When the name Microsoft is mentioned, the thoughts immediately go to its long-running Windows computer operating system line, as well as its notable rivalry with Apple computers and their proprietary operating system and products. Perhaps a name will also be recalled: Bill Gates, visionary founder who spearheaded the company direction that made Microsoft a household…
There is no getting around saying that Netflix is arguably the global king in streaming media services. Their massive library of TV series, films, and similar programming not only holds strong in the face of other media companies building their own streaming platforms (and consequently removing their media properties from Netflix), but is further bolstered…
Ever since it first entered Philippine shores way back in 1997, more and more Filipinos with the passing of years have been blessed with the honor and pleasure of tasting the smooth and creamy goodness of coffee from Starbucks. The global coffee company and coffeehouse chain has helped make household names of coffee blends such…
For the better part of this year, what seemed to dominate news of the business world in terms of major company takeovers is the grand deal between The Walt Disney Company and 21st Century Fox. Already approved by antitrust regulators and somewhere on the stage of finalization, this agreement would have Fox cede many of…
