Earnings of Cosco Capital Inc., the listed retail holding firm of tycoon Lucio Co, increased by 10 percent in the nine months ending September on the back of strong operating performance across all its business segments.

Digital lender Maya Bank, in partnership with Landers Superstore, has issued over 50,000 credit cards in just three months, making it one of the fastest growing credit cards in the country.

The Keepers is planning to acquire 100% of the outstanding shares of Booze On-Line Inc (BOLI).

Asia-Pacific will require 19,500 new aircraft by 2043, Airbus announced on Wednesday, November 13 at a regional aviation summit.

Pastor Apollo Quiboloy spent six months in hiding with no report that he ever required hospital confinement for any affliction. But perhaps arrest and detention without bail, in accommodations that a man wealthy enough to tool around in a private jet may not be used to, can trigger a “life-threatening” affliction.

One hundred twenty-two children – aged 1 to 17 – were killed in the first half alone of Rodrigo Duterte’s six-year bloody drug war.

The state weather bureau has placed several areas under Signal No. 2 as Typhoon Ofel makes its way to Northern Luzon.

The House of Representatives saw quite a toned-down but more gutsy version of former President Rodrigo Duterte as he refrained from swearing at the House probe into his bloody anti-narcotics campaign.

Jared Bahay hit timely shots down the stretch to help the Ateneo Blue Eagles deal the free-falling University of the East Red Warriors their fourth straight loss in the UAAP Season 87 men’s basketball tournament, 71-67, Wednesday at the UST Quadricentennial Pavilion in Manila.

Edited highlights from the presentations I gave at the WebSearch Academy on 17th October 2016 at the Olympia Conference Centre, London are now available on SlideShare.  They are also available on authorSTREAM. These are selected slides from the presentations; if you attended the event and would like copies of the full sets please contact me. … Continue reading WebSearch Academy presentations – edited highlights →

Locating images that can be re-used, modified and incorporated into commercial or non-commercial projects is always a hot topic on my search workshops.  As soon as we start looking at tools that identify Creative Commons and public domain images the delegates start scribbling. Yes, Google and Bing both have tools that allow you to specify … Continue reading New Creative Commons image search – back to the drawing board I’m afraid →

Ok, we know that Google often does strange things with our searches but much of the time it is not obvious that something odd has happened. There are usually some “good enough” answers scattered through the first 20-30 results so that we shrug off the rest as “well, that’s Google for you”. Occasionally, though, one … Continue reading More Google weird results →

Google has made a major change to search and it does not bode well. Results are now based on your current location. So what’s new?  Google has always looked at your location, even down to city/town level, and changed the results accordingly. That is fine if you are travelling and want to find the nearest … Continue reading Google makes it harder to change location for country specific research →

Please note: a regularly updated version of this posting is now on the main website at http://www.rba.co.uk/sources/brexit.htm  Those of us living and working in the UK are constantly bombarded with news and information of varying quality on Brexit. I regularly run workshops on sources of business information and,  inevitably, these now include a section on … Continue reading Brexit – sources of information →

This posting is for those of you who receive articles from this blog by email, and I am sure that many of you within the EU will have received similar notices from other organisations. On the 25th May the General Data Protection Regulation comes into force and as part of that we need to know … Continue reading Receiving blog postings by email – GDPR →

Edited highlights from my recent workshop on search tools for research information are now available. Please note that not all of the services, search tools, examples or issues covered in the workshop are included in this version. Slides can be viewed on Slideshare  or authorSTREAM. 

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Cemu - Wii U Emulator is a highly experimental freeware to emulate Wii U applications on your computer. It isn't an alpha or even a beta, but experimental. [License: Freeware | Requires: 11|10|8|7 | Size: 25-59 MB ]

Dell OS Recovery Tool is a freeware app that can be used to create a USB recovery drive to reinstall the Windows or Linux that came with your PC. Dell OS Recovery Tool is easy enough for anyone to use following the simple four steps in order. [License: Freeware | Requires: 11|10|8 | Size: 25 MB ]

Portable tool to securely delete data. Securely deleting files is required to block the recovering of deleted data. Secure deletion is possible with this program, because Blank And Secure overwrites t... [License: Freeware | Requires: 11|10|8|7 | Size: 158 KB ]

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