The Philippines is confident of further improving its global ranking in the 2021 Ease of Doing Business (EODB) report despite serious concerns that some reforms may not be acknowledged that may affect the country’s score. “I see a much improved score for the Ease of Doing Business (EODB)...
The pandemic has become the most influential driver of digital transformation and, consequently, global Cloud usage. With total worldwide spend on Cloud services expected to surpass $1 trillion in 2024 according to the International Data Corporation (IDC), performance, availability, and cost of...
Business name registration in pandemic year 2020 rose 48.69 percent as economic difficulties drove Filipinos to think of ways to augment income. Data from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) showed that business name registration, the first step in starting a single proprietorship business,...
With the surge on the number of Covid-19 cases going up every day for the past week, parents are making sure all that are their disinfecting tools are in tip-top shape. How it stared Forty-four-year-old mom Coline Ilacad did more than just make sure her home is safe and clean, she wanted to help...
Globe Telecom—through its enterprise arm Globe Business—made a historic mark as the first telco to launch network virtualization in the Philippines. Using the telecom company’s Network Function Virtualization Orchestrator (NFVO), businesses across the country can now set up their...
Business process outsourcing company, MDS Call Solutions, Inc. (MDSCSI) takes its voice and digital services up a notch with Globe. MDSCSI collaborated with Globe’s enterprise arm, Globe Business, to support its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud migration and SMS Application Programming Interface...
Various business organizations have urged the public to heed warnings of rising cybercrimes to preserve the stability and trust in the financial system, which are essential towards economic recovery and normalcy. In a joint statement, the 25 business groups cited the Philippine National Police...
Indonesian financial technology firm Xendit, which aspires to be the Philippines' digital financial highway, raised a total of US $88 million funds after its latest US$64.6 million Series B round to expand its regional business. Overall, Xendit has processed over 65 million transactions with US$6.5...
Some things developed in childhood never change. For Dr. Julius Ignatius Barreto Uy, 54, a dentist, passion for plants is something that has always been with him despite taking a different career that’s a bit far from what he originally wanted. Uy shares this passion with his Mom since he...
Unfazed by grim prospects for the airline industry this year, Pacific Global One Aviation (PG1), the aviation arm of PLDT, Inc., undertakes a major rebrand for its chartered services to get a piece of the $7 billion market by 2024. The company has set its sights on the medium term and expects the...
A home based baker in Butuan City, Jackylou Sanchez Husain, stayed late baking an order of two 10x4 cakes for a 90-year-old birthday party. When she’s about to do the frosting around 4:30 am, she received a message that the celebrator had just passed away. In a now deleted post on a bakers'...
Everyone has dabbled into a passion project or two this lockdown to keep themselves busy. Makeup artist Chuchie Ledesma is one of them, but what makes her candles stand out is how her first collection of limited scented candles have been thoughtfully and carefully conceptualized. Himo1987 How it...
