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[Media Release] Davao City makes it to the Philippines’ 2008 Top 10 IT-BPO Outsourcing Destinations Davao City has added another distinction to its cap by ranking 4th in the Philippine 2008 Top 10 Next Wave Cities for ITO-BPO Destinations. Conferred by the Commission on Information & Communications Technology (CICT) and the Business Processing Association of [...]

Infinit-O is a leading BPO company in the Philippines providing back office support primarily for the financial services and healthcare sectors. It is currently expanding its range of Mortgage Loan Processing Outsource services to help mortgage companies across the United States through their current turmoil. Despite the negative news and forecasts for the U.S. mortgage [...]

Davao is being considered as an investment destination by Transkripsyo Inc., a 200-seat medical transcription company based in Ortigas, Metro Manila. The reason is not necessarily that Davao is already fully prepared for more BPOs; it is the weakening US dollar that is driving BPO operators out of the Philippine capital.

Recently I passed the Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 2. Without going into the specifics of this very difficult exam, let me just say that I almost jumped up and hugged the next person beside me when I found out. But I was in Compostela Valley that time, and I didn’t want to create a [...]

After years of being the only medical transcription company in Davao, SSP Transcriptions is now joined by a handful of other MT outfits operating in the city. In another type of business, this might be viewed as the entry of competition; but not for the MT sector. The more, the merrier! SSP is a member [...]

Today MTC Academy – Davao, which was inaugurated only last 18 August 2006, launched its Basic Medical Transcription Course for high school students, starting with batch 2007. This program will offer training in MT for 18 months, which is equivalent to 3 semesters. The beauty of this is that, should the trainee decide to pursue [...]

Is Davao read for I.T. investments? Are all the necessary facilities and services in place already? What is being done to address these concerns?

Where do Davao I.T. graduates go? Do they stay in the city or leave for the proverbial greener pastures?