By Julia Carreon-Lagoc Fifteen-year old Danika Dingus, daughter of a FilAm doctor, romped away with the top prize in the Science Fair of the John Paul II Catholic School in Okatie, South Carolina on February 19. “Feel the Burn,” the title of her experiment, succinctly answered in step-by-step procedure this question: How does the triglyceride […]
Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao will be honored as one of 2015 Asia Game Changers, for using sport and his star power as sources for good, the Asia Society announced in a statement. He will be following in the footsteps of Alibaba CEO Jack Ma, who took the honor in 2014. “The Asia Game Changer Awards […]
By Cristina DC Pastor Why would anyone want to duplicate the Facebook page of Consul General Mario Lopez de Leon Jr.? Tech hacks will tell you that these so-called scammers’ nefarious intention is to reach out to the person’s network of friends and ask them for cash. It may not be as simple as that. […]
By Harvey I. Barkin Jing Torralba observed that Filipinos in her line of work didn’t socialize at work. That they tend to socialize outside of work. When she worked tech pubs at a security company, she worked with a young Filipino engineer. She told him to call her by her first name. She was intending […]
By Harvey I. Barkin Edwin’s wife, Josefina or Jing, was also a tech writer but followed the path into software. She has a Psychology degree and is no more an engineer than Edwin. She started as a recruitment receptionist for Xerox when she joined Edwin from Washington DC in 1984. That meant, “All I did […]
By Harvey I. Barkin SAN JOSE – “The story goes,” Edwin Torralba related, “when it was time to choose, the Philippines chose to have an Asian Institute of Management while India chose an Asian Institute of Technology.” Edwin was a technical writer but when the permanent job became contractual and then dried out, he re-invented […]
A technology entrepreneur and a cancer specialist shared the reasons and the rewards of returning to the Philippines after living in the U.S. for many years, during the February 25 to 27 3rd Global Summit of Filipinos in the Diaspora held in Manila. Earl Valencia was the Business Incubation Manager of Cisco’s Emerging Technologies Group […]
Minerva Tantoco was recently appointed as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), a historic first for New York City. “Minerva is an experienced technologist with vision and technical expertise to make New York City the number one center for tech and innovation in the country, and I am thrilled to have her join my administration,” Mayor Bill […]
By Ricky Rillera Illac Diaz, founder of My Shelter Foundation and Liter of Light, is one of Asia Society’s Asia Game Changer awardees. Diaz, who promoted his Liter of Light project in Jersey City two years ago, in partnership with the Philippine-American Friendship Committee Inc. (PAFCOM), is being recognized “for bringing light to those in […]