Retailers Fight Back Against Amazon With Private Brands

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It’s no secret that the rise of showrooming  – when shoppers browse brick-and-mortar stores to check out potential purchases, only to buy them later from online merchants like Amazon at lower prices – has retailers shaking in their boots.

As a counterattack, chains ranging from Target and Macy’s to Family Dollar are ratcheting up exclusive, private-label brands – which defy price comparisons – and in the case of Lowe’s, are even reinventing themselves as wholesale brands overseas.

See full story here (Forbes).

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Why 9gag.com a trending funny site?

Have you heard or read, “Y U no Signup?!”? Are you fun of comic photos or images? Are you having fun on the evolution of man? Or having happy moments on movie collections?

If your answers are yes, then 9gag.com is the social media website for you. What is 9gag?  And how it is different from other sites such as reddit and digg?

See full story here.

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Philippine Brands on its finest and quality

Just wandering behind the commercials we saw on Television is from what companies came from? Where those products came from?

As we explore the web, we found out in business insider that 10 Corporations controlled most of the products. That image was based on the chart from Reddit.com.

Wondering the beverages, soap, detergent, cosmetics, shampoo, chocolates, ice cream, breakfast cereal, coffee and a lot of products we consumed are controlled by biggest corporation worldwide.

On the illustration we found out that Kraft, Coca-Cola, Nestle, P&G, Johnson and Johnson, Unilever, Pepsico, Wrigley, Kellogg’s, Mars, and G. 

Among those well known companies in the Philippines are Kraft, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Procter and Gamble (P&G), Johnson and Johnson, Unilever, Pepsico, Wrigley and Kellogg’s.

Those brands made it on Philippine market on its finest and quality of products they offered.



photo: businessinsider.com

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Top 10 Websites in the Philippines

The top 10 Websites in the Philippines for 2012 are the following. This is based on the most viewed and most trending websites that makes every Filipinos want to visit daily. This top websites has been published in Entrepreneur June 2012 edition.

If you are an avid business enthusiast and intellectual people like us, this is your chance to know more the latest market, the trending business, the amazing brands, and the technology biz at present.

1.) Facebook.com

2.) google.com.ph

3.) google.com

4.) youtube.com

 5.) yahoo.com

6.) blogspot.com

7.) Wikipedia.org

8.) twitter.com

9.) sulit.com.ph

10.) wordpress.com

 Among the top 10 websites, sulit.com.ph is the only website that is owned by Filipino.

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List of Remittance Company in Philippines

Remittance Company emerges in Philippines. In a World Bank study, Philippines is the second largest recipient of remittances in Asia as of 2010.

Remittance is a way of sending money abroad but locally through region. Below are the lists of Remittance Company in Philippines. If you want to add company not on the list kindly contact us.

1.) Western Union Money Transfer

2.) Cebuana Lhuillier

3.) MLhuillier Pawnshop

4.) Palawan Pawnshop

5.) Moneygram

6.) Xoom

7.) iKobo

8.) GCash

9.) LBC

10.) PhilSend

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New face of Friendster

Have you ever think the time when Facebook has not yet launch and Friendster eats up some of your time connecting with your friends? Well this article  will face again the new face of  Friendster now and look back how it transform from Social networking site to social gaming website.

 

I remember the time that everyone wants to have an account in Friendster (FS). Those were times that you need to find your long lost classmates, friends, cousins, and persons you want to know more about him/her.

Though I would say that Facebook is a late bloomer in the Philippines, until now many Filipinos are still addicted and supporting this great innovation of Mark Zuckerberg.  It has been launched way back 2004, that time many Filipinos still prefer to use Friendster due to its complexity. For the benefit of knowing who the founder of FS is, he is Jonathan Abram. 

At first Friendster rocks netizens because of its easy to use and navigate pages. It gives you a normal views and use of current facebook.

Lately, Friendster became a social gaming website. Now it is based in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia being owned by MOL Global that has been operates in Malaysia, Singapore and Philippines. Its re launched makes it more promising that gains over 115 million users according to Wikipedia. And recently last year it was recognized as one of the hottest Silicon Valley Companies.

Here’s trivia information from Wikipedia.com on the Site Transformation

In June 2011, Friendster shifted from social networking site to a social entertainment site which focuses on gaming and entertainment. The accounts are unchanged and still existing. However, all the photos, messages, comments, testimonials, shoutouts, blogs, forums and groups that the users may have had in the past may no longer be part of their Friendster account. An exporting tool is provided to back up the information of the user account. This tool has an ability to export photos to Flickr and Multiply. For other details please click here .

Now that Friendster creates new trends for social entertainment website, it’s about time to try it for the second time and enjoy the entertainment of gaming.

Photo (friendster logo) courtesy of Mashable.com

Photo (New friendster image) courtesy of friendster.com
Photo (Jonathan Abram) courtesy of businessinsider.com

Photo (Mark Zuckerberg) courtesy of otrsportsonline.com 

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Top websites in the world, common in Favicon style?

Yes, that is true! Have you ever noticed the website icon or commonly known as Favicon on top of themost viewed websites? Have you seen the common design? Those were located in the address bar wherein it reflects the brand or identity of the website.

While browsing the net, I looked and discovered those Favicon in different way. I discovered that all of them used their first letter of the company name. Take a look on it as you realize what I am trying to point out.

Below are the top sites and their corresponding favicon:

Yahoo.com is an internet company known on its services such as search engine, email, news, advertising, social media, sports, financials, groups, answers, directory and other web services. 

Forbes.com is well known for its magazine publishing for business. They also gives information on technology, lifestyle, science, law and the best, richest, and lists of billionaires in the world.

Blogger.com is a servicing site that allows blogger like me create articles, journals, notes, etc. It is being owned by google.com.

Google.com is the most famous search engine in the universe that includes, web, images, youtube, news and a lot of more. They also provide advertisement like adsense, cloud computing, productivity tools, enterprise tools, maps, Android OS, etc.

Wikipedia.com is a free encyclopedia as the website stated. According to the site itself, it is a free, collaboratively edited and multilingual internet encyclopedia supported by non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.

 Amazon.com is the most famous selling book store in virtual world. But it‘s more than just a book store but it’s the widest retailer online or commonly called electronic commerce or e-commerce.

Bing.com is not a name of a person! (Chuckle). It is owned by Microsoft Corporation and it is a search engine. And according to Wiki, it is formerly (Live Search, Windows Live Search, MSN Search).

Tumblr.com is a feature rich and free blog hosting platform offering professional and fully customizable templates, bookmarklets, photos, mobile apps, and social network and a lot of more.

Babylon.com is a search engine also which is owned by Babylon Ltd. It is also an online dictionary and translator.

VK.com is a social networking site. Unlike Facebook, it is most popular in Russia.

 

Facebook.com is the hottest website ever. In today’s world, life is empty without facebook, or we can say life is incomplete without facebook. It is the modern social networking site that is founded by Mark Elliot Zuckerberg of California, USA, which is two years younger than the owner of this blog, AmazingBrandz.com.

Pinterest.com is a virtual pin board where you can share your photos in different format or template you want.

Wordpress.com is like a blogger.com that allows blogger to create free sites for web blog hosting and advertising.

For you what is the coolest Favicon among the top mentioned websites?

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