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Firm spies: Asian bosses set to snoop on your facebook
Firm spies: Asian bosses set to snoop on your facebook
Perhaps you are being snooped on right now, with 60 % of companies set to have social media monitoring of employees in place by 2015 according to Gartner.
Does your boss follow you on Twitter?
Beware of what you tweet as 60% of companies are expected to monitor employee behavior in external social media by 2015.
Job losses loom: Majority of SIngaporean CFO's won't hire new staff
And forget about asking for a pay rise, with 41% deeming rising cost of labour or scarcity of well qualified employees as the greatest threat in 2012..
URA releases first hotel site at Jurong Lake
It is made available for sale under the Reserve List of the 1st half 2012 Government Land Sales (GLS) Programme.
MCL Land tops Jurong Gateway Tender
MCL's bid of $369.39m edges out closest rival El Development by just 0.08%.
Olam invests US$240m for first sugar milling asset in Brazil
Management however sees no immediate financial impact amid week sugar outlook.
Singapore and China raise collaboration in services
Representatives from both countries will set up a new work group to facilitate new projects in the services sector.
Gadget sales slump as Singaporeans tighten purse strings
What is to blame for the 20% crash in laptop sales?
Cancelled nims positive for StarHub
Regulators’ decision to drop plans for the development of a common set-top box (STB) for pay TV raises entry barriers, says CIMB.
MF Global Singapore may get as much as 91% of money back
The defunct company nonetheless reiterates no evidence so far of improper use of customer money in Singapore.
Hard-pressed aviation firms get free promotion funding
The government has launched the Aviation Promotion Programme (AProP) with a $5 million budget for brand expansion.
Senior executives defy rules during trying times
Only 4 out of 10 senior executives based in Singapore pledged honesty in stating financial performances even during crisis, a survey show.
Singapore to share traffic management expertise with Colombia
A panel of transportation experts will study local Bogotá traffic conditions to produce a sustainable Traffic Demand Management action plan for the city.
Singapore ranks second fastest in Asia on time spent reading resume
Guess what country breaks Singapore's record of 9 minutes and 32 seconds?
ST Eng'g maintains innocence over ST Kinetics debarment in India
STE’s recent ~S$880m contract win to build patrol vessels for the Royal Navy of Oman, demonstrated its ability in winning defence contracts has not been compromised by the India debarment, says OCBC.
Chart of the Day: Singapore's import food prices up
The increase however was by a smaller extent compared to global prices.
Commodity firms in for a nastier drought
Wilmar, Olam and Noble are all currently reeling from the Chinese demand slowdown but the worst is yet to come.
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