The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is ramping up the country’s readiness to participate in the global digital economy this National ICT Month 2021. 1200px-Department_of_Information_and_Communications_Technology_(DICT).svg This year, the Department focuses on the...
Kai Sotto (SBP Images) Kai Sotto is set to arrive in Manila this Monday night in hopes of joining Gilas Pilipinas in the third window of the FIBA Asia Cup Qualifiers on June 16 to 20 in a bubble setup in Clark, Pampanga. The Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP), led by its president Al Panlilio,...
#ASKGOYO Atty. Gregorio Larrazabal Under the law, “every barangay shall have at least one precinct. Each precinct, shall have no more than two 200 voters and shall comprise contiguous and compact territories.” This means there’s a limit to the number of voters per precinct. However, if...
The Gokongwei Group, through private investment firm JE Holdings, is infusing P1.25 billion into Shakey’s Pizza Asia Ventures Inc. (PIZZA) as a new strategic investor of the Po family-controlled food chain. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, Shakey’s said that,...
The members of the national rowing team, headed by its president Patrick Gregorio (third from left), pose for a photo during the Philippine Sportswriters Association Forum last January 2020. Philippine Rowing Association President Patrick Gregorio said plans are underway to put up a regional...
#ASKGOYO Atty. Gregorio Larrazabal There is good news this week! Starting May 10, 2021, the new voter registration schedule has reverted to Monday to Fridays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Office of the Election Officer (OEO). This is a very good development. Before May 10, the schedule was from...
#ASKGOYO Atty. Gregorio Larrazabal Just a few weeks ago, the number of people in the Philippines infected daily with COVID-19 was above 10,000. In recent days, the daily number of people infected hovered around 8,000 people. Earlier this week, Ryan Caybayab tweeted his experience talking with a...
#ASKGOYO Atty. Gregorio Larrazabal What is confirmation bias? Confirmation bias is defined as the “tendency to process information by looking for, or interpreting, information that is consistent with one’s existing beliefs. This biased approach to decision making is largely unintentional and...
The Philippine’s fixed broadband average download speed continued to improve as of March 2021, according to the latest Ookla Speedtest Global Index report. The country registered a 7.79 Mbps or 20.25 percent increase in speed from the recorded 38.46 Mbps on February, jumping to 46.25...
#ASKGOYO Atty. Gregorio Larrazabal I delayed writing this article in the hopes of being proven wrong about the quarantine restrictions, and how it’ll be announced and implemented. I and many others were hoping that the new quarantine restrictions would be announced early, the details of which...
Shakey’s Pizza Asia Ventures Inc. reported a P247 million net loss for 2020 a 129 percent drop and reversal from profits of P865 million earned in 2019. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, Shakey’s President Vicente Gregorio said “2020 was obviously a one-of-a kind year amidst...
#ASKGOYO Atty. Gregorio Larrazabal Just recently, Japan and the UK announced that there was a new strain that they detected in their country. They found this in people who travelled from the Philippines. The new virus variant is now called the Philippine variant. We join the UK, South Africa,...
