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...
The Philippines retains its number one rank as country with most women in senior management in 2021 and further improving the number of Filipina business leaders to 48 percent from 43 percent in 2020, according to Grant Thornton’s annual Women in Business report. The report cited the Philippine...
A Philippine software product engineering firm is offering businesses self-service apps solutions, targeting 2,000 local and international companies to go digital by the end of next year. Arup Maity, president and CEO of BlastAsia, said the company's vision is a world where everyone can build...
The Philippines slipped 10 notches lower to 96th from 86th in the 2020 global e-commerce readiness index, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) reported. The UNCTAD Business-to-Consumer (B2C) E-commerce Index 2020 where Switzerland climbed to the top spot replacing...
