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PHINMA Education has partnered with PLDT to provide mobile data and access to learning platforms to students in five schools and universities across the Philippines.

Insurer strengthens its Corporate Care benefits for businesses with newest Loan and Credit Protection solution designed for small lending institutions 

The general community quarantine still follows the same guidelines from the enhanced community quarantine: go out only when necessary, practice social distancing, and wear masks at all times. To help maintain these guidelines, the Bataan local government unit (LGU) has tapped Globe to streamline the processing and approval of its Social Amelioration Program (SAP) for constituents. 

Barely three weeks after its launch, more unbanked and underserved Filipinos are now downloading the country’s Taglish inclusion super mobile app, DiskarTech.

To help accelerate the growth of micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) all around the country, digital financial services leader PayMaya launched its PayMaya Negosyo “Bizkarte” Program which aims to provide MSMEs with the right tools, assistance, and resources to help their businesses thrive in the growing world of digital commerce.  

IBM and SAP has announced their partnership’s next evolution, with plans to develop several new offerings designed to create a more predictable journey for businesses to become data-driven intelligent enterprises.

Having produced half a million protective aprons for front line health care workers, Nissan Sunderland is handing over the project reins to HMP Northumberland.

Online investments have become a cradle for get-rich-quick schemes. Cryptocurrencies are one type of online investment that have become especially prominent. Hundreds of platforms have flooded the market, and it can be overwhelming to determine whether or not they are valid. Certain red flags can quickly highlight risky investments. These are not necessarily indicators that a platform or a company is a scam, but they should make you question how viable a particular investment is.

Due to the pandemic, educational institutions are exploring creative ways to address the absence of face-to-face teaching. One way of continuing the learning experience of students is through cloud-based educational systems. With schools transitioning to this online method of education, Globe myBusiness has partnered with Rosemont Hills Montessori College in implementing remote and flexible education through an innovative Learning Management System (LMS).

Lemi, an exploration-driven social sharing platform based in Hong Kong, has launched a digital coupon service that supports businesses as they recover from losses incurred during the pandemic. Lemi’s coupon service helps businesses generate an additional revenue stream and broaden their customer base.

Nowadays, there is one great reason for parents to invest in personal computers and household printers—learn from home. 

Written by Enzo Luna

With the adoption of distance education this coming school year,  internet connectivity and personal computers, laptops or tablets become essential requirements for teaching and studying.  However, not all schools are sufficiently equipped with the information and communications technology (ICT) tools necessary for effective learning.

Written by Robert “Bob” Reyes

Nokia announced global commercial availability of new 5G SA industrial-grade private wireless networking solutions, providing a roadmap to fulfilling the needs of the most demanding industrial and manufacturing use cases.

Lenovo is refreshing its suite of business PCs by releasing new ones equipped with AMD Ryzen processors for companies who wish to arrange a morerobust work-from-home (WFH) setup. These are fully optimized with enhanced remote work capabilities and designed to take business computing at home to the next level with their faster processing power, anywhere-anytime productivity, and enterprise-level security features.

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, is launching the AWS DeepRacer Women’s League in Southeast Asia. The event features a race using fully autonomous, scaled-down cars that have been trained to drive using reinforcement learning (RL), and is designed to encourage women in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand to participate in technology by developing machine learning (ML) skills. The virtual race is open to participants with no prior knowledge of ML, or who want to experiment with it for the first time.

In support of the government’s efforts to ramp up contact tracing capacity for COVID-19 cases, PLDT Enterprise enables free access to COVID KAYA app developed by the Department of Health (DOH) Epidemiology Bureau.