Filipinos are now utilizing digital payments more than ever. Last month, the Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas reported that digital payments made up 20.1 percent of all transactions in 2020, more than double the figure from two years ago of 10 percent. This strong momentum is creating opportunities particularly for enterprising Filipinos who engage in e commerce.
To help micro, small, and...
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Huawei Philippines has launched the 7th Seeds for the Future with over 100 students in the country joining the program this year. Top officials from the government and the academe, along with students from 20 universities across the country, joined the opening ceremony.
Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. gave a speech during the event saying: “As the world...
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Huawei Philippines held Thursday Tech Day 2021, a program that aims to discover how pioneering enterprises are applying innovative ICT technologies to create digital infrastructures for the entry of the intelligent era.
Whilst the pandemic has pushed the pause button, performance varies from company to company, industry to industry, and country to country. One of the keys to...
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Leading life insurer Pru Life UK has announced its new President and Chief Executive Officer Eng Teng Wong, effective Nov. 1, 2021.
Putting customers at the heart of everything with its We DO commitment, Eng Teng will lead the continued transformation of the Pru Life UK business to help customers get the most out of life.
Previously the Chief Revenue Officer and...
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Key people behind Edamama, an ecommerce site dedicated to mothers, have recently talked about how leveraging Amazon Web Services technologies has helped them address the pain points moms in the Philippines are experiencing when shopping online.
During an exclusive press conference via Zoom, Monica Otayza, Edamama’s public relations and marketing head, and Seaver Choy, the...
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The ASEAN Foundation and Huawei have signed a memorandum of understanding on joint efforts to bridge the digital talent gap at the Asia Pacific Innovation Day – Digital Talent Summit 2021. The online summit brought together policy makers, researchers and industry experts to share solutions and best practices in building a sustainable ecosystem that will help foster digital talents in the...
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Stratpoint Technologies, one of the country’s leading software development and digital transformation services providers, announced its participation at Softcon 2021, an annual gathering of software and IT professionals in the Philippines.
Every year, technology advocates, IT professionals, software engineers, and business leaders come together in this celebration of Filipino...
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There is no doubt that the global pandemic has accelerated digital transformation, changing our day to day lives. Due to current events, the digital shift that was supposed to take years happened in a blink of an eye – putting the spotlight on businesses and how they make an effort to innovate their products and services.
For Home Credit, it did not come as a surprise since their...
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Amazon Global Selling held its inaugural 2021 Amazon Expo Seller Boot Camp to further introduce MSMEs to cross border e commerce and how Amazon's global infrastructure and resources can empower them to develop a global business. The Boot Camp was...
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Fujitsu hosted Tuesday its second consecutive annual flagship global event, Fujitsu ActivateNow 2021, gathering attendees around the world in a dynamic digital experience with messages from Fujitsu’s leadership as well as panel discussions and guest presentations from global visionaries in digital government, diversity, inclusion and other key areas.
This year’s...
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At the Huawei TECH4ALL Summit, Huawei called for global partners to join the TECH4ALL digital inclusion initiative, which aims to build a more inclusive and intelligent world that leaves no one behind.
Huawei's TECH4ALL initiative focuses on four areas: driving equity and quality in education, conserving nature with technology, driving inclusion and accessibility in health, and...
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The country’s manufacturing sector has undergone significant changes in the past few years. Amid the ever changing digital world, manufacturing organizations leaned on automation to enable innovation, faster go to market, and profitability.
In 2020, the onset of the COVID 19 pandemic accelerated further this digital transformation. Transformational digital technologies...
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PLDT and Smart, through its B2B arm PLDT Enterprise, have officially launched their newest digital offering called the Internet of Possibilities by PLDT and Smart which aims to open up new possibilities for Internet of Things (IoT) applications and deployment among enterprises and consumers in the country.
During the Philippine Digital Convention 2021, PLDT Enterprise Core...
Digitalization is crucial to economic growth and recovery, especially in the time of the pandemic. Around the world, it has helped governments, schools, and businesses shift to the new normal.
For a developing country like the Philippines, digital technology ensures better governance, improves the quality and reach of e learning, and creates and/or retains jobs and industries. It could...
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Pru Life UK, the country’s leading life insurer, recently culminated its 25th year anniversary with a grand raffle draw and also its Give Back campaign for customers as part of the celebration.
Wrapping up a milestone year with a bang, Pru Life UK’s We DO Health & Wealth: 25th Anniversary Celebration promo ran from March to September through Pulse, its all in one AI...
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Huawei hosted the Energy Summit online, which was held within the framework of HUAWEI CONNECT 2021 and themed "Digital Energy, Powering the Low Carbon Era".
During the summit, customers and partners discussed best practices in using new technologies to transition the energy industry toward carbon neutrality. Huawei also released the Global Energy Transition and Zero Carbon Development...
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Ecommerce continues to play a significantly important role in the Philippine market and is estimated to be worth US$12 billion by 2025. As more consumers turn to e commerce, and as more businesses capitalize on the potential of the emerging digital economy, there is also a rising demand for qualified tech talents. According to Linkedin, tech roles make up the majority of “emerging...
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Huawei, along with industry partners, held the Intelligent World 2030 Forum. David Wang, Executive Director and President of ICT Products & Solutions of Huawei, released the Intelligent World 2030 report with a keynote speech on Exploring the Intelligent World 2030. This is the first time that Huawei has used quantitative and qualitative methods to systematically describe the intelligent...
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With the theme of "Connection, Glory, Future," the national leg of Huawei ICT Competition Philippines 2021 concluded today with the teams from the University of the East and STI College bagging the top awards.
Huawei Philippines named the UE team as the champion for the cloud category of the competition. The team is composed of instructor Mr. Alexis John Rubio and students Jio Vince...
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For six years now, the Philippines has topped global rankings for both social media and internet usage. According to wearesocial, there were 89 million social media users in the Philippines in January 2021. This is equivalent to 80.7 percent of the total country’s population in January 2021.
Despite being called the social media capital of the world, multiple reports and studies...
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“Mga bagong bayani.”
Around 10 million Filipinos live and work overseas seafarers, nurses, caregivers, hotel staff, construction workers, oil field personnel, and many more help drive the Philippine economy through remittances they send back home. Considered the world’s fourth largest recipient of remittances next to India, China, and Mexico, OFW remittances...
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Shopee saw great excitement for 9.9 Super Shopping Day, signaling a robust start to the year end shopping season. Over 45 million items were sold within the first 99 minutes. Shoppers saved more with 60 million vouchers claimed in the first two hours of September 9 at the Mega Midnight Sale. With the widest variety of products from local sellers as well as trusted brand partners, shoppers...
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HUAWEI has reaffirmed its commitment to enabling Filipinos to enjoy a seamless AI life supported by an intelligently connected ecosystem at the recently held Huawei Development Day Philippines 2021. The tech leader also shared its aggressive roadmap in forging strategic partnerships with key industry players, which led to the availability of 96 percent of top local apps in HUAWEI’s very...
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In the latest iteration of Union Bank of the Philippines’ (UnionBank) E TalkTales, UBX President and CEO John Januszczak, Coherent CEO John Brisco, and Chubb Deputy Regional President for Asia Pacific Glen Browne discussed the ongoing insurance crisis in the Philippines and how UBX’s insurance platform Assured is helping address this crisis through embedded experiences powered by...
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We’ve nearly reached the end of the month, which only means one thing—it’s almost time for payday this 30th! First, prioritize buying essentials, paying off bills, and setting some savings aside.
But it’s also important to indulge yourself a little from time to time. You’ve worked diligently, and this payday it’s time to go all out and enjoy some of...
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Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank) has announced that the company is the first partner in the country to join Visa’s FinTech Fast Track program as a BIN sponsor.
This means that UnionBank can work with fintech providers to help them gain access to the same global payment technology, expertise and revenue opportunities as they would if they were a direct card issuer with...
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Yield Guild Games (YGG), a decentralized gaming guild of players and investors who generate yield from NFT based games, announced Friday it has raised a $4.6M investment led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The round, which was finalized prior to the YGG token sale on July 27, was joined by Kingsway Capital, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Atelier Ventures, and gaming...
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Global tech leader Huawei is set to present its most recent feats in the Philippine market across its many verticals on August 20 at the HUAWEI Developer Day. The tech giant is also expected to provide updates on how it is building and growing its ecosystem in the Philippines vis a vis the local rollout of the recently launched HarmonyOS and how it is projected to further the smart lifestyle...
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realme Philippines continues to dominate the local smartphone industry as it claims the no. 1 spot in the market once again, according to international research firms IDC, Canalys, and Counterpoint Research in their respective Q2 2021 reports.
With this milestone, the fast growing tech and lifestyle brand has now managed to hold the top spot for two consecutive quarters—an...
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Huawei has announced its plan to invest $100 million in startup support at the inaugural HUAWEI CLOUD Spark Founders Summit, which took place simultaneously in Singapore and Hong Kong. Huawei said the investment would go towards its Spark Program in the Asia Pacific region including the Philippines, which aims to build a sustainable startup ecosystem over the next three years.
Huawei...
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It is once again that time of the year when school starts right around the corner. MSI, a world leader in producing high performance and innovative laptops, is ready with its back to school promo that starts on August 1 and lasts until September 30.
Students of different backgrounds, whether they are gamers by night, studious types or artistic individuals, and coming from all sorts of...
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In IT, availability and the cost of downtime are top of mind. In fact, it’s a surefire bet that any downtime caused by an unplanned disruption or outage will get the attention of employees and leaders faster than anything else IT is doing at a given time.
But aside from the annoyance, when applications fail, it costs organizations money. Especially, with a business critical...
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Jose Maria College (JMC) signed July 6 an agreement with telecommunications giant, Huawei, to keep up with the latest innovations that technology can offer to today’s education and pursue the fifth industrial revolution of educational technology.
Through the partnership, students will soon be able to access the most modern educational tools such as state of the art Learning...
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True to its word of creating "New Value Together, Win Together," Huawei Philippines has recently recognized the significant contributions and exemplary performance of its industry and academic partners, conferring the ICT Talent Partner of the Year 2020 award to STI College, which has the highest number of students passing the Huawei certifications offered by Huawei ICT Academy.
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Staying updated on news stories that matter is now a lot easier for Filipinos as they can now listen to the articles being read and search for stories using their voice while using the ABS CBN News App.
The app is now able to read news stories to users who may not have the time or capability to read the articles, like those who are on the go or are multitasking.
To activate the...
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Huawei announced on Thursday its Seeds for the Future Program 2.0, through which Huawei plans to invest US$150 million in digital talent development over the next five years. This program is expected to benefit more than 3 million additional people.
Huawei held a "Tech & Sustainability: Everyone's Included" forum, co hosted by the International Union for Conservation of Nature...
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Every business that has survived and beaten the pandemic odds carries an inspiring story of creativity, grit, and resilience worthy of recognition.
By capturing and telling these stories, Globe Business honors the local micro, small and medium business owners through this year’s Saludo SMEs campaign, cheering them on with the message “Through The Changing Times, Tuloy...
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Giving back on its 25th year, hygiene products company Sanitary Care Products Asia (SCPA) invests in local startups to champion decades of people first philosophy. Together with the Asian Institute of Management Dado Banatao Incubator (AIM DBI), they launched the social accelerator program called the Human Investment x Impact Grant for Entrepreneurship and Empowerment or the HIIGENE...
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SAP has announced the winners of the SAP Best Run Awards 2021 for Southeast Asia (SEA). The SAP Best Run Awards, the first of its kind in the region, recognizes and celebrates leading organizations in Southeast Asia that have harnessed innovations from across SAP’s ecosystem of products and services, turning insights into action to drive successful transformation for their...
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917Ventures’ digital innovations have enabled consumers and businesses to thrive and triumph in today's challenging environment. Companies like GCash, KonsultaMD, HealthNow, RUSH, AdSpark, and PureGo have become the new lifelines for Filipinos during this pandemic.
GCash helps its 40 million users securely send money and pay for goods and services online and empowers many small...
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Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank) successfully held the virtual groundbreaking ceremony last May 26, for its Innovation Campus, a real property development that will support its innovation initiatives. The event marked a very important milestone in UnionBank's digital transformation journey, which began half a decade ago.
The first in industry facility, which is being built on...
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The surge of COVID 19 cases in the country during the past weeks has further delayed the Philippines’ journey toward fully opening up the economy. In the pandemic era, expecting the unexpected could very well be the key to the survival and eventual success of a business.
One sector that has been challenged greatly by the pandemic is the real estate industry. And while many...
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Medical frontliners are the modern day heroes in our ongoing battle against the COVID 19 pandemic. As they continue to save lives of our kababayans, we can stand behind them by practicing health safety measures and utilizing technology.
Utilizing digital apps like PayMaya is making it easier for Filipinos to participate...
Brands clamor to win over customers’ precious mobile screen time in a highly digital environment, and companies continue to find ways to innovate and bring better solutions to the fore.
917Ventures, the country’s largest corporate venture builder, gives businesses an opportunity to make their brand rise above the clutter and reach customers faster through RUSH and GLife...
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The World Wide Fund for Nature Philippines (WWF Philippines) is celebrating the WWF network’s 60 years of action for nature and people by bringing together local artists, arts and fashion enthusiasts, and environmental advocates in an online auction for the environment.
Founded in 1961, WWF’s mission of building a future in which humans and nature thrive has stood the test...
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Where there are goods and consumables in a market, there will always follow counterfeit products. This is especially true for electronics, where it’s easy to find and get cheaper yet substandard things without even trying.
Although for practical Filipinos, it may seem incredibly tempting to go for fake products because of their more affordable price, using counterfeit consumables...
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Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank) held its 10th E TalkTales media event last April 21, wherein the Bank talked about its people centric digital transformation and how this has helped not only its employees but also external stakeholders in line with the Bank's goal of enabling inclusive prosperity in the country.
UnionBank Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resource...
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With the surge in COVID cases renewing fears for one’s health and safety, Globe makes GInsure available for its customers across its latest product and promo portfolio, FREE for the first three months, to give them peace of mind, protection, and #ExtraCareAtHome that they need and deserve.
A first in the Philippines, GInsure is GCash’s...
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Globe beats competition across 10 out of 17 regions in the Philippines in terms of mobile download speed based on Ookla’s Q1 2021 data. This is a reflection of the telco’s rigorous network upgrades to provide customers with better mobile data experience.
According to Ookla’s Q1 2021 data, the telco has registered the fastest mobile download speeds in the following...
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Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank) led the co creation of an innovative digital corporate social responsibility program that helped a pioneering batch of 80,000 public school teachers upgrade their digital capability as the country’s education sector rallies private sector support for the blended learning approach.
Together with its mass market arm and subsidiary City...
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In light of IATF’s announcement to place Metro Manila, Cavite, Laguna, Rizal and Bulacan under Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) starting 29 March 2021 until 04 April 2021 due to the surge of COVID 19 cases, Globe assures its customers that it will continuously deliver service support and #ExtraCareAtHome despite the new lockdown.
Globe transactions made safe and easy...
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Earth Hour is the world’s largest grassroots movement for the environment, representing large scale public clamor for a sustainable future and the protection of the environment.
On Saturday, March 27 at 8:30PM local time, this global event will virtually bring together millions of people, businesses and leaders from around the world to shine a spotlight on the urgent need to...
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The trends in the digital marketing scene have been ever changing because of the continuous technological advancements that shape consumer demands and behavior.
In recent years, we've seen different unconventional marketing campaigns from the world’s biggest brands like Coca Cola, Royal Crown Cola, Apple, Nike, and many others. These campaigns were choreographed by their own...
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The largest integrated telecommunications provider PLDT, through PLDT Enterprise and Smart, unveils the Smart Bro 5G Plans for business—equipping more enterprises with the latest in technology, running on the country’s fastest mobile network.
All Smart Bro plans today under PLDT Enterprise are 5G ready, with Smart Bro Plans 1899...
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What is the real secret to a successful business?
For homegrown hygiene company Sanitary Care Products Asia (SCPA), the answer is its people. SCPA stays true to this credo and pays it forward as they kicked off their silver year in a virtual event last March 18.
Throughout its 25 years of creating homegrown brands for Filipinos such as Sanicare, Femme, Tisyu, Cheers...
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The pandemic has resulted in new consumer behaviors emerging in the Philippines, where more Filipinos are starting to go on digital commerce platforms and make cashless payments. According to Visa’s latest Consumer Payment Attitudes study, 52 per cent of Filipinos shopped online through apps and websites for the first time during the pandemic and 43 per cent of them made their first...
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Aligned with its mission to help medical professionals with their tax woes so they can passionately focus on providing high quality healthcare to Filipinos, Taxumo has forged a crucial partnership with AIDE, the country’s most trusted healthcare and telemedicine platform.
Through the partnership, thousands of AIDE’s healthcare providers will be able to...
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Leading cement maker, Holcim Philippines has announced today the appointment of Mr. Horia Adrian, as the new President and CEO of Holcim Philippines effective March 1, 2021.
Horia Adrian is formerly the CEO of Romania and Market Head Emerging Europe. He joined LafargeHolcim in 2000 and has successfully held various management roles, including CEO roles for Russia, Eastern Europe &...
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Globe is all set to make its VoLTE service accessible to postpaid customers in more towns and municipalities in the country. Its aggressive network expansion and modernization efforts have resulted in making Voice over LTE or VoLTE service available soon to postpaid customers in 1,538 towns and cities all over the country.
Moreover, the company says its VoLTE coverage is now activated...
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The largest online code league in the region aims to meet the accelerating demand for tech talents across Southeast Asia and Taiwan
Shopee, the leading e commerce platform in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, announces the return of Shopee Code League, the largest online code league in Southeast Asia and Taiwan. Launched in 2020, Shopee Code League is part of Shopee’s ongoing...
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The Philippines ranks 10th among APEC countries with median download speed on 5G at 182.50 Mbps based on Ookla Speedtest Intelligence® Q3 2020 data[1].
Median 5G download speed is the aggregate speed measured in the 50th percentile of all tests taken with Speedtests on a 5G connection.
This is a huge feat for an emerging market economy aiming to have a...
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Company rolls out regular antigen testing, procures vaccinations for employees, frontliners
Leading fiber broadband service provider Converge ICT Solutions Inc. continues to ensure the safety of its employees and subscribers as the company provides regular antigen testing for its people, particularly for its customer facing personnel. Converge has also made arrangements for...
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Through Shopee’s various programs, aspiring talents can learn from experts and better understand the e commerce industry
Shopee, the leading e commerce platform in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, continues to power the next generation of e commerce leaders in the country through in depth training and apprentice programs.
Reports show that e commerce in the Philippines...
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