GMA Network net income soars 55 percent in Q1 2013

Reports P3.241 billion consolidated revenues for the first three months

Broadcast industry leader GMA Network, Inc. (GMA) reported impressive year-on-year growth in both revenues and profits for the first quarter of 2013 supported by its improved performance across key financial indicators.

Sarah Jessica Parker - The New Face of The SM Store

International screen and stage actress – and style icon – Sarah Jessica Parker is the new face of the SM Store.

This comes as the SM Store opens its new branch at SM Aura Premier, a world- class mall, which redefines the retail and lifestyle scene in the country.  And with that, the SM Store brings great design and great retail to new heights with its Love To Shop campaign.

As the new face of the SM Store, SJP brings to Manila her love of shopping as expressed in her incredible fashion style.  She has been known to be experimental in her fashion choices – which range from elegant designer gowns to casual street fashion and even sportswear - mixing and matching and looking fabulous.

GMA Network Cites Outstanding 2013 Graduates with Excellence Award

“We are driven by our Passion for Excellence,” so goes one of the corporate values of GMA Network.

It is in this spirit that the Kapuso Network recognizes the achievements of graduates from select universities who have demonstrated exemplary leadership, technical skill, and academic performance through its CSR program called the GMA Network Excellence Award.

MUSIC LYF: Fall Out Boy Magic According To Chicosci

Four years of recording hiatus could have affected the popularity of the Grammy award-winning Fall Out Boy in unfavorable way, especially with how music fans quickly turn over their attention to every exciting band act on the rise and eventually forget those who lay low.

That is not the case with FOB which still proved to be a force to reckon with after their latest single "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)” immediately made an impact, lording the singles chart in the US in almost no time.

Their newly released album "Save Rock And Roll' debuted at number 1 in the US Billboard 200 albums list with sales of more than 150,000 units in just one week of hitting the market.

Red Horse Beer Muziklaban Grand Champuon, A Music Theory, Joins MCA Music

MCA Music welcomes Red Horse Beer Muziklaban grand champion, A MUSIC THEORY to its growing variety of local roster consisting of Urbandub, Pupil, Franco, Chicosci, Tanya Markova, Pedicab, Nyoy Volante, Sabrina, Krissy & Ericka, Solenn Heussaff, Loonie and Ron Henley among others; MCA Music is also home to the biggest international acts like Taylor Swift, U2, Snow Patrol, Keane, Justin Bieber, Lady GaGa, Demi Lovato, Paul McCartney, Lionel Richie, Gotye, Rihanna, Sting, Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey, Jessie J, Maroon 5, The Wanted, PSY and many more.

FujiFilm and Japanese Embassy Donates Medical Equiptment Worth P30M To DOH

Fujifilm may be known as a manufacturer of cameras for imaging, but they actually have more than just Mirror-less and Point and shoot cameras, they have also invented a lot of imaging technology which can be beneficial in other fields like medicine.

Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Mr Toshinao Urabe, together with FUJIFILM President Takashi Sasaki and executive   Shushei Wakimoto will officially turnover six (6) State-of-the-Art radiography equipments to Department of Healyh. The medical equipment composed of radio and endoscope machines amounting to 30 million pesos (250 Million Yen) is part of Japanese Embassy and FUJIFILMs efforts to help improve medical service in the country.

REEL DEAL: Beyonce As The Voice of Queem Tara in the Animated "EPIC" (3D)

From the creators of the "Ice Age" and "Rio" series, "Epic" follows a teenager MK (voiced by Amanda Seyfried) who is transported into a secret forest world then embroiled in a battle between good and evil and has to protect a special flower pod to save the forest where Queen Tara (Beyonce) reigns protected by the Leafmen.

“Epic’s” world, which unites the familiar and the fantastic, is a forest unlike any we’ve seen before: tiny seeds look like boulders; rocks are the size of spiky mountains; flowers are gigantic and complex; and a butterfly is a nothing short of a flying tapestry.