Top 10 Countries Leading the Clean-Energy Race

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The largest Asian country in terms of population is spending a lot more in clean energy than any other country, even beating out the United States. China’s total investment figure in renewable energy is more than those expedited by the US and UK combined, two countries that round up the Top 3.

The Top 10 Countries that invest more in renewable energy belong to the G20, a group of industrialized and advanced countries with the largest economies in the world. Rounding up the top 10 with their respective spending figures for renewable energy in 2009 are:

1) China                                      $34.6 billion
2) United States                           $18.6 billion
3) United Kingdom                      $11.2 billion
4) Rest of EU-27                         $10.8 billion
5) Spain                                       $10.4 billion
6) Brazil                                       $7.4 billion
7) Germany                                  $4.3 billion
8) Canada                                    $3.3 billion
9) Italy                                         $2.6 billion
10) India                                      $2.3 billion


The rest of EU includes the 27 member-countries of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden.

However, if the EU countries were to be separated and the amount in renewable energy investment is taken into account for each country, the Latin American country, Mexico, would have coveted the 10th spot, spending $1.8 billion in renewable energy.

This information was sourced from Pew Charitable Trust’s report entitled: Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race? Growth, Competition and Opportunity in the World’s Largest Economies.

Clearly, it’s China winning the race, another feat the Asian country has attained in the 21st century.

Top 10 Countries With the Largest Number of Mobile Subscribers

China, being the largest country in the world in terms of population is undoubtedly the largest market when it comes to product demand when individual country per product demand is taken into account. In the cellphone market, it is, without doubt, the largest. And mobile carrier companies are very happy to tap the China market because it is the number one when it comes to the number of mobile subscribers.

This is a Top 10 Biz-related Blog

The  Top 10 niche may already be competitive nowadays and tapping a large audience share for this niche may seem daunting but still possible. Because of this, I only want to bring different top 10 lists for various business-related  topics for this blog. Other topics and categories such as sports, entertainment, lifestyle and others may not be included here. Nevertheless, topics of the mentioned categories with business tags may be integrated such as pertaining to the business of entertainment, the top-earning athletes and celebrities and other subjects with money figures tagged.

In this blog, however, I want to bring to light the topics of business subcategories such as:

• Finance
• Earnings of popular people a.k.a celebrities
• Leadership
• Management
• Accounting
• Marketing
• Online Marketing
• Entrepreneurship
• Business of Engineering and that covers Construction and other engineering subjects
• Jobs

If you want to gain extensive knowledge on other top 10 list topics, you may visit TopTenz.net. For business-related lists, refer to this blog.

Top Cellphone Brands in the Market Today

 Mobile phones, or more popularly known as celphones, have emerged from being portable phones for the rich and the businessman into must-haves for almost everybody. Even kids can have their celphones for practical use and not just something to flaunt on to their playmates and classmates. The portable phones are not only used for practical and business purposes such as text messaging and calls. . They can also be used for gaming, computing, as organizers, and even as fashion accessories. Modern cellular phones integrate camera phones, 3G and wireless fidelity system so users can utilize them to take pictures and conferencing as well as for Internet browsing.  And from being electronic handsets, these gadgets have transformed into smart phones because of their business-friendly features and integration of advanced operating system.

And with the popularity of mobile phones, many companies manufacturing electronic products have added the mobile phone in their product lines while companies like Nokia and Motorola have been known as cellphone brands and manufacturers since 1980's.

The mobile phone market is over a billion and China is perhaps the biggest market. I don't have exact estimate as to the figure. Cellphone companies want to grab a lion's share in this market while others manage to gain just a slice.

 Nokia has been a leader in this mobile phone business and perhaps the known cellphone brand in the world. Apple is a newcomer but quickly gains momentum in the mobile market in which the demand for high-technology portable gadget with chic features is rapidly increasing.

Moreover, cellphone brands also carry the flagships of their origins. Nokia is to Finland while LG and Samsung are to Korea. Apple iPhone, Motorola and Palm are to USA while HTC and BenQ are to Taiwan. Brands from Japan and Sweden have joined hands to give birth to Sony Ericsson phones while Germany's Siemen mobile phones have been divested to Taiwan's BenQ. Japan still has Sanyo while China is accelerating bit by bit in the cellphone market with its Chery mobile phones. And don't forget Blackberry of Research In Motion (RIM) of Canada.



Makers of mobile phones from the regular handsets to advanced smart phones have been competing to gain a big share in the cellphone market. But perhaps, the main driving force to attain this goal is to promote them globally through different advertising media.

In the Philippines, the texting capital in the world, many cellphone brands have promoted their newest models almost every quarter with latest features and chic casings. Impressive TV ads of Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson have been able to capture the Philippine market. I have yet to see a TV ad of Apple in the Philippine television though. Maybe sooner, I don't know.

Now, the intention of this post is to bring about a list of popular cellphone brands in the worldwide market. This is the list in no particular order:

• Nokia
• Apple
• Blackberry
• Samsung
• HTC
• Sony Ericcson
• LG
• BenQ
• Siemens
• Sanyo
• Palm
• Motorola
• Chery
• Pantech

I know that there is already a list of top 10 Cellphone brands in the world in terms of sales. And perhaps, there are other cellphone brands not included in my list. However, I want to have my own list of top 10 popular mobile phone brands through a poll. Yes, I am conducting a poll and this is based on the blog readers preference in a brand.  But the list will be compressed to 10 brands. The poll will proceed until the end of June 2010.

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Top 10 2010 Billionaires

Warren Buffet topped the list last year. This time a Mexican soars higher in the rank of billionaires. Not really soaring higher because he was third last year but he took over Buffet and Gates in wealth figures. You may have already some preludes on other articles, so I have to give you now the list of Top 10 Billionaires according to Forbes.

The Top 10 Popular Tax Havens You May Want to Reside Permanently

Countries that have no or low nominal taxes are considered tax havens.

Though there are no definite categories or attributes for a country to be known as a tax haven, the following characteristics are eminent such as:

1. no tax  or low nominal taxes;
2. foreign tax authorities can't get sufficient information because of lack of effective tax communication
3. a tax haven's government is lenient in the matters of tax collection
4. there is no substantial evidence as to the provision and imposition of tax and tax laws to its jurisdiction, and
5.  a tax haven's promotion as an offshore financial center.

Top 10 Best Tax Haven Countries

Taxes are really a burden. Though paying taxes is a responsibility of the people of nations that impose taxes to their citizens, many people want to evade paying taxes.However, doing so could put tax evaders in jail.

Yes. Tax evasion is illegal and many governments have made moves to track tax evaders and punish them. Others are penalized while others depending on severity, could be imprisoned.

However, it is good to know that there are countries that don't levy taxes to their citizens. Some of them have also granted tax holidays to investors. Tax havens attract people particularly rich people who probably have the fear of giving their hard-earned money to their governments. Moreover, tax haven countries are magnets of investments.

These are the 10 countries, in no particular order that put incentives to their citizens and investors- foreign and local according to Cheap-credit-cards.org

• United Arab Emirates
• Hong Kong
• Cyprus 
• Georgia
• Singapore
• Russia
• Taiwan
• Thailand
• South Africa
• The Philippines

Good to have the Philippines on the list despite certain issues of the current administration over the imposing of additional 2% of VAT from 10% VAT.

However, the Philippine government has provided tax incentives to accredited companies, foreign and local with offices and operations on the country's many economic zones.

I don't know with other countries though. 

Post-Hiatus: Top 10 Reasons for Failing to Post

It's been a long time since my last post here on this blog. I've been having different experiences lately in my life. New beginning, new life, new year and new BLOG!

Yep!

I have a new blog site not hosted by Blogger. It's Bjorn Bernales, my self-titled blog. It is about business, self-development, lifestyle and the likes with a tagline: "Pragmatism and Simplicity in Business and in Life".

Moreover, there are other things that have kept me from updating this blog. Without further ado, here are the top 10 reasons for failing to constantly update this blog.

1)  More time browsing and learning about blogging while neglecting to update my blogs;

2) Been occupying time helping my parents with their business;

3) Researching on topics on how to create blogs;

4) Learning more about money-making online;

5) Sucking the time to do worthless things but still reading different blogs worth discovering and learning;

6) Living idly while away from laptop and Internet connection;

7) Working out-of-town and making myself  sick from stress and heat;

8) Discovering new friends and new acquaintances;

9) Seeking a mentor for my online business but failing to find any;

10) Updating my Twitter and get addicted to it while at the same time posting new contents for my new blog, Bjorn Bernales

So you know why I fail to update this blog. But after some thinking over, evaluating and further probing, I've learned that this blog can also help me make money. The Top 10 keyword is, without further proof, but with great probability one of the most-searched keywords for those searching about lists.