Senator Grace Poe on Friday, May 16 called for the development of guidelines and tools that would ensure artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the country are ethical and inclusive, and innovative. Poe said the question of governance becomes increasingly urgent as AI continues to disrupt and...
Lottery firm Pacific Online Systems Corporation (POSC) is rethinking its investment into the online gaming business amid regulatory uncertainty due to government threats to ban Philippine inland gaming operators (PIGOs) if it gives rise to problems similar to that of Philippine offshore gaming...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) House Speaker Martin Romualdez led on Wednesday, April 30, led the inauguration of the ₱50-million Castañas Centro Communal Irrigation System (CIS) in Barangay Castañas, Sariaya, Quezon....
Belle's Tagaytay Highlands resort The SM Group’s leisure developer and gaming firm Belle Corporation reported a five percent improvement in net income of ₱462.4 million in the first quarter of the year from the ₱439.7 million recorded for the same period in 2024. In a disclosure to the...
Pacific Online Systems Corporation, the lottery unit of the SM Group’s Belle Corporation, reported that its consolidated earnings almost doubled to ₱25.3 million in the first quarter of 2025 from the ₱13.4 million posted in the same period last year due to higher dividend and lower interest...
Telco giant PLDT Inc. has completed the installation of an underwater cable system at its landing stations in Aurora and Davao, boosting its international capacity for data traffic. The 12,000-kilometer-long Apricot cable system linked to landing stations in Baler, Aurora and Digos City, Davao del...
Tanco-led STI Education Systems Holdings Inc. (STI Holdings), owner of the country's largest network of private schools, reported a 76 percent jump in net income to ₱912.2 million for the six-month period ended December 2024 from ₱517.8 million in the same period of 2023. In a...
STI Education Systems Holdings Inc. (STI) intends to continue expanding its network of schools by building new campuses to capitalize on the "sweet spot" of profitability that it has reached. According to STI Chairman Eusebio Tanco, their network of schools under units STI Education Services Group...
Lottery firm Pacific Online Systems Corporation (POSC) is investing P150 million to diversify into the online gaming business through the acquisition of a 37.5 percent stake in the owner of Buenas e-casino. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), the firm said it has entered into an...
Veteran banker Raul B. De Mesa, Chairman, President, and CEO of Abacore Capital Holdings Inc. and Director of Pacific Online Systems Corporation, has passed away at 81. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, Abacore stated, “His untimely departure has left an irreplaceable void in our...
In light of the typhoons that ravaged the country over the past month, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has sought closer consultations with the Philippine government to strengthen its early warning system. Malacañang photo JICA President Dr. Tanaka Akihiko said this during his...
While not exactly turning its back on fossil fuel-based conventional technologies, Alcantara-led Alsons Power Group will be pursuing wider diversification on its power generation portfolio by focusing its next investment on utility scale solar farm installation that will have energy storage...
