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                    [Title] => San Miguel Corp. to enter telecoms market via broadband
                    [Summary] => 

San Miguel Corp.’s entry into the fiercely competitive Philippine telecommunications market will be made via a new product that hopes to capitalize on the growing market for broadband.

[DatePublished] => 2010-02-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 308047 [Title] => Smart‘s ‘Boy’ Martirez besieged with job offers [Summary] => Former Smart Communications marketing whiz Anastacio Martirez, whose out-of-the-box strategies made parent Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) the most profitable company in the country and Smart the biggest cellular operator, is now besieged with offers left and right from foreign companies that want him to be their chief executive.

Contrary to reports (not in The STAR) that Martirez has accepted the CEO post at Indonesian cellular phone company Mobile 8, he told The STAR that he was never approached nor did he approach said company.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 268756 [Title] => ‘I Love Philippines, Biyahe Na’ launched [Summary] => Local tourists may soon be joining overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) as postmodern patriots.

The Department of Tourism (DOT) has teamed up with SMART Communications to launch a project that encourages Filipinos to visit local tourist destinations as proof that they love their country.

Tourism Secretary Joseph Durano said the goal of the project called "I Love Philippines: Biyahe Na (Travel Now)!" is to generate local employment by promoting travel by foreign and Filipino tourists alike.
[DatePublished] => 2005-02-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096875 [AuthorName] => Edu Punay [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 260731 [Title] => One happy ‘ex-president-to-be’ [Summary] => Did you know 1: The First Resources Management and Securities Corp. founder Vivian Yuchengco has been back in town for at least a week and is unusually quiet, considering that so-called friend and chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission Lilia Bautista gave the go-signal for an SEC team to visit the office of First Resources and to look at its first quarter stock markets transactions only last month.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey  [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 259459 [Title] => Smart offers text-based remittance service [Summary] => After conquering the local mobile phone market, leading wireless operator Smart Communications is now branching out into the world’s first and only international cash remittance service via text messaging.
[DatePublished] => 2004-07-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 255362 [Title] => After work punching bags [Summary] => Remember Give a Life Foundation executive director Philip Cruz, whose certificate of completion was withheld by the Philippine General Hospital for about a year because he refused to divert some of the funds raised to help cancer-stricken children from poor families to other PGH projects such as a diagnostic center and a library?

Well, he finally got the certificate last week and is now a well-fledged pediatrician.

The thing is, the hospital he wanted to practice in – The New Medical City – returned the money that his parents paid for a proprietary share.
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey  [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 235190 [Title] => The P400,000 giveaway [Summary] => Well, well. Those two months of head-hunting is over for Golden Arches Development Corp. managing director Kenneth Yap.

You see, he has settled on Smart Communications, Inc. marketing manager Margarita Torres to replace vice-president for marketing Leila Hernandez who is moving to a regional position in the McDonald’s operations.

This is a big jump, of course, for Margot Torres who used to report to Smart personal mobile communications head Anastacio Martirez.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey  [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 198110 [Title] => Willy Parayno’s briefcase [Summary] => Did you know 1: Guam honorary ambassador Lucio Tan recently donated $1 million to the University of Guam – to do whatever it wishes with the money.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey  [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 196637 [Title] => The mobile phone gets amazing [Summary] => Vanessa, a vice president for an information technology company, has a busy schedule with her usual day full of several out-of-the office meetings with clients. She works closely with her secretary who updates her contacts and calendars on her desktop Microsoft Outlook in her office that she has access to.
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Telecoms [SectionUrl] => telecoms [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 195586 [Title] => Smart to develop own cellphone brand [Summary] => Leading mobile operator Smart Communications is taking its business one step further following its decision to develop and sell its own brand of cellular phone.

Smart officials revealed the other day that the new mobile phone, dubbed "Smart Amazing Phone", is actually a three-way partnership with Microsoft Corp. which is providing the operating platform Windows and Taiwanese company Hitech which is manufacturing the phone. Hitech is also the company that makes the Ipaq PDA for Compaq.
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