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I bet, you may be laughing at the idea of harvesting potable (drinking) water from the air. But I kid you not, an Israeli company holds the patent to a technology that creates high-quality drinking water out of the air for people everywhere.

The business and entrepreneurial advocacy group Go Negosyo recently held a briefing with a number of private companies regarding the COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin, manufactured by India’s Bharat Biotech. Around one million doses of Covaxin are expected to be made available to the private sector beginning April, according to the forecast of Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion.

Globe myBusiness marks International Women’s Month by empowering Filipina-led MSMEs

Global cloud communications company, Infobip today announces its full Communications Platform as-a-Service offering is now available on Microsoft Azure, thereby extending the enterprise customer base globally for Infobip – particularly in the finance, eCommerce and retail sectors, and allow it to expand its core market footprint. 

HP Indigo quality and productivity now available at a lower initial investment

In this piece, Alysa Taylor, Corporate Vice President for Business Applications and Global Industry, introduces Microsoft’s new cloud offerings for the financial services, manufacturing, and nonprofit sectors that would empower organizations to be future-ready and adapt to the new business landscape. Read the original article here

Coca-Cola believes that improving women’s economic conditions enables the creation of more empowered communities. In 2010, the beverage company made a global commitment to empower 5 million women across its value chain by 2020. Today, on International Women’s Day, Coca-Cola announced that it has surpassed its global goal, enabling more than 6 million women through 318 programs across 100 countries. Here in the Philippines, Coca-Cola announced that it has successfully supported the economic empowerment of about 250,000 women retailers all over the Philippines—this represents 21% of the total universe of small sari-sari store owners in the country.

To flourish in the new normal, the Philippine weaving industry needs support not only from consumers but also from key decision-makers in the Philippine business and e-commerce community.

SAP SE today announced a milestone of five million course enrollments on its openSAP platform – a free online platform that offers innovative, expert-led massive open online courses (MOOCs) with accompanying microlearning and podcasts across a range of topics for learners of all abilities.

Radenta Technologies Inc., one of the country’s leading solutions integrators celebrates its fifth year with an eye for widening its reach to the ASEAN region.

HP Inc. today announced the launch of its first virtual showroom in the Philippines. Part of a virtual experience for customers that spans six countries in Southeast Asia, the HP Virtual Showroom takes customers into a modern-day virtual world of diverse technology experiences for different customers who live together under one roof. 

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and the Philippine Digital Asset Exchange (PDAX) are supporting the creation of a crypto-and-fintech sandbox that intends to spur innovation and technological advancement in this space. The move is also in response to the growing public interest in alternative investment platforms such as cryptocurrency, notably due to the clear shift from traditional to digital financial services.

The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) and other business organizations have committed to pursue programs that will support and complement the 2022 E-Commerce Roadmap that was launched recently by the Department of Trade and Industry.  

HP Inc.’s latest study on SMBs in Asia-Pacific, “Survival to Revival”, surveying 1,600 SMBs across in Asia reveals over 50 percent of small-medium business (SMB) owners expect not just to survive but thrive following the pandemic and feel that digital transformation will be a key part of this revival. In response, HP is introducing integrated services-based print solutions including an HP Roam for Business bundle to make it easy to print on the go and enhanced HP SecurePrint a flexible, cloud-native solution that releases documents only to authorized users.  

As the ongoing pandemic continues to propel digital e-commerce and financial transactions, online payments are fast gaining acceptance and trust from Filipinos. This is a key trend observed by the newly rebranded Bayad, the country’s biggest and widest multi-channel payment platform. 

With majority of businesses reinventing themselves to transcend the impact of the ongoing pandemic, the internet became the perfect answer to bridge the resulting gaps and to quickly adapt to the new market realities. This sped up the shift to digitization as many business value chains became heavily reliant on staying connected.

Micro, small, and medium enterprises or MSMEs account for 99.5% of all registered businesses in the Philippines, employing almost 62% of the workforce. They also account for 25% of the country’s total exports revenue, and comprise 60% of all Philippine exporters. MSMEs, in particular e-commerce players, have stepped up during the pandemic, providing services and necessities demanded by the lingering health crisis. 

To help the millions of Filipinos who are sending and receiving remittances in the Philippines, Robinsons Bank has introduced its new service, the RBANK REMIT.