Better product sellers through best-in-class training from Acer

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Acer Philippines continues to provide its channel partners with enough selling skills through continuous training provided by the tech giant’s Channel Partners Enablement Program (CPEP). The program was designed to equip Acer’s commercial sales partners with the latest updates on Acer products and solutions together with Microsoft Philippines. CPEP also lets channel partners be further trained to develop not just their selling skills but also their personality through a soft-skill trainer. Later, the attendees were given a certification examination and qualified channel partners received sales certificates from Acer Philippines, Inc. Company officials such as Manuel Wong, Acer Philippines Managing Director welcomed the participants, while Microsoft Philippines Windows Marketing Client Specialist Eufer Pasion, provided Microsoft Windows 10 Pro updates. Jeffrey Mariano, Acer Philippines Product Lead for Mobility presented product updates on Mobility, Alex Araneta conducted the soft-skills training while Laura Lu, Business Development Manager from Acer headquarters lectured on Smart City Solutions.

For more about Acer Philippines’ innovative products and other updates, go to www.acer.com.ph, follow Acer via Twitter (twitter.com/acerphils) or www.Facebook.com/AcerPH.

AMD Announces World’s First Professional Workstation Graphics Card with Industry-Leading 32GB Memory

At the 2016 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show, AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) announced the new AMD FirePro W9100 32GB -- the world’s first workstation graphics card with industry leading 32GB memory support for large asset workflows with creative applications¹ planned for availability in Q2 2016. AMD also introduced the AMD FireRender plug-in for Autodesk® 3ds Max®, which enables VR storytellers to bring ideas to life through enhanced 4K workflows, photorealistic rendering functionality, and powerful creation support.

“The imagination of the creator is limitless so much so that the professional creator consumes all available resources to produce new and never before seen designs and experiences. Some professional creative workflows demand very high bandwidth memory subsystems while others demand high memory size. AMD pioneered the era of High Bandwidth and Ultra Efficient Memory through the introduction of HBM technology in 2015 and will bring it to content creators with the introduction of Radeon™ Pro Duo graphics. With the new AMD FirePro W9100 32GB, AMD is unleashing the world’s largest memory size professional workstation graphics card,” said Raja Koduri, senior vice-president and chief architect, Radeon Technologies Group (RTG), AMD.  “Along with exceptional hardware, AMD is also delivering software tools to leverage our high bandwidth and large memory GPU configurations effectively.” 

AFFI reveals roadmap for next 5 years SMEs, entrepreneurs urged to thrive by 2020

With the Philippine economy expected to expand even more this 2016, the Association of Filipino Franchisers Inc. (AFFI) has laid out plans to further empower entrepreneurs and the role of entrepreneurship in nation-building.

In its first general membership meeting for the year, AFFI shared its “Thrive Towards 2020” strategy to CEOs and leaders of member-corporations and partners, while commemorating the milestones it set in previous years.


In his keynote address, AFFI President Jerry Ilao of Ink-All-You-Can discussed how the association introduced in 2015 a number of innovative programs geared towards its vow of empowering entrepreneurs in the country.

He pointed out AFFI’s most successful activities last year including the first ENTREPRUN; the Business Unusual where experts shared their knowledge on intellectual property and labor law; and the AFFI Open House which provided a glimpse of how some of AFFI’s biggest member-corporations started, how they operate, and how they continue innovation inside their companies.

SEVEN THINGS OF ACER PRESIDENT AND CEO JASON CHEN

Being a well-travelled executive to several countries already, Acer, Inc. President and CEO Jason Chen, he usually does 7 things whenever he’s in a particular country: Publication meeting with employees, business updates, talk to media, visit the service center, customer meetings, visit to retail shops, and meet executives for team building. For him, it’s the voice of the service people that he wants to listen to and show care to them. Describing himself, being the company’s main representative, he says he is a man with “temperature,” and he wants Acer to also have temperature that clients can feel, touch and be comfortable with.

Change your viewing habits with the Acer K138ST short-throw projector

Acer K138ST short-throw projector

It is always great to look forward to weekends or long vacations to be able watch your favorite movie, TV series, musical spectacles or must-love sporting events.

But great as it may be, wouldn’t you want to change your viewing habits a little bit by watching your favorite content on a much bigger screen? No, it’s not about investing on a bigger TV; it’s about choosing a meaningful option for you to “up the ante” in your home entertainment and give it a more cinematic experience.

Then the best choice should be the Acer K138ST short-throw projector, a name you can rely on when it comes to spearheading a silver-screen revolution and change your movie night habits right at the comforts of your own home.

Practo Launches Practo Ray With Specialty-Specific Modules

Practo  Ray for Dentists

Practo, Asia’s leading healthcare platform, today announced the launch of Practo Ray with specialty-specific modules. These modules will significantly improve the quality of care doctors can provide to hundreds of millions of consumers in the Philippines, as they have been custom designed in close collaboration with thousands of doctors globally.

The three new specialties will be available worldwide in all countries where Practo is present. Practo Ray will have modules for physicians, pediatricians and dentists and will, over the next several months, expand these to cover more specialties including ophthalmology, gynecology and more.

These will be available across more geographical segments as Practo expands its footprint to countries across South East Asia, Latin America, Middle East and Eastern Europe.

Torque Celebrates 5th Year Anniversary in the Philippines

TORQUE, the country's most affordable yet quality mobile phone in the country traces back its beginnings in 2008. With its unwavering commitment to come up with quality and affordable products at par with both foreign and local brands in the market today, the Filipino brand TORQUE now marks their fifth year of operations in the Philippines. It continues to keep the market updated with the latest in mobile communications such as innovative breakthroughs in technology, design and functionality. 

TORQUE has indeed gone a long way. It is now considered as a key player in a highly competitive and aggressive mobile phone industry. "In keeping up with the very dynamic mobile phone market in the Philippines, our commitment remains the same:to provide innovative product designs and highly thoughtful specifications based on the market demands," says TORQUE CEO Christopher Uyco. 

As the country's very first local mobile brand to launch the most affordable mobile phones and tablets with superb features found in foreign brands, TORQUE's status has greatly improved in the last five years in terms of market demand. "We engineer and design our own phones and tablets through our scaled and talented TORQUE engineering team. From the seemingly insignificant details to the essential functions, each product is made with only excellence in mind," Uyco added. 

In celebration of their fifth year, TORQUE launches a new endorser and brand ambassador in Youtube sensation and fast-rising rap artist ABRA. Best known for his chart-busting rap Gayuma, ABRA's certainly happy to be chosen to join the ranks of Billy Joe Crawford, Luis Manzano, Carla Abellana and Iya Villania as TORQUE's endorsers. 

Aside from a new endorser, TORQUE is coming up with an awesome product line up of innovative smart phones and tablets that caters to all types of users. TORQUE has ushered a faster and more powerful yet still easy on the pocket Android gadgets under the Droidz series: the Beat TV, Pop 3G, Play 3G, Active 3G, Stark 3G, Atom 3G, Space 3G, Avatar TV, Quad, Motion and Life HD. All these models run at 1GHz Dual Core CPU except for Quad, Motion and Life HD which features 1.2 GHz Quad Core. Screen sizes varies from 3.5" to 5.5" in size, depending on customer's choices. Each smartphone is built with superior interface using Android 4.1 to 4.2 Jellybean OS and comes with dual-sim capability and cameras, except for POp3G and Active 3G which have 3MP rear camera. All phones have wifi/bluetooth capability and microSD slot. 

TORQUE also has launched an exciting array of DROIDZ series, with same features as an expensive tablets but truly affordable. These include Edge, Duo Slimm Duo, Duo TV, Drive Slim and Push+. All these models run at 1.2 GHz with 4GB to 8GB ROM and 512 RAM. With 7" capacitive touchscreen, users will truly enjoy an interface that uses Android Jelly Bean. 

With functionality, aesthetic, price and overall consumer satisfaction, TORQUE ensures that it will continue to provide even more competitive products for the Filipino market. 

For a list of TORQUE products, specifications, price lists and other information, log on to www.torque.ph