SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye On May 9, Filipinos will go to the polls to vote in the national elections. As crucial as the elections are, the campaign period is equally critical. Candidates are stepping up their campaigns to ensure victory, and this occasionally includes vote buying and selling....
Alliance Towers Corporation Chairman and CEO Sherwin Hing and President and COO Alvin Tolentino. Independent tower company Alliance Towers Corporation (ATC) is going full speed ahead in building towers to support digital transformation and telecommunications industry efforts to address the demand...
Bus commuters going to Northern and Central Luzon can now do cashless purchase of tickets or payment for cargo deliveries after Victory Liner, one of the country's largest transportation firms, partnered with digital financial services platform PayMaya. Victory Liner taps PayMaya for safe and...
The future is looking bright for the country’s digital economy. When the pandemic hit, many industries were quick to shift their focus on digital innovations, helping them thrive as the business landscape continues to change. The rise of eCommerce was noticeable, with the Department of Trade and...
Singapore-based startup helps SME retailers automatically digitize their products Fairmart today announced the closing of an oversubscribed S$2M (US$1.5M) seed round co-led by Quest Ventures and Entrepreneur First, with participation from SOSV, Vectr Ventures and Hustle Fund. The company supports...
For years, Allysa Fabiaña manually listed daily sales and expenses from her ukay-ukay business and had no access to simple digital services. Today, she’s one of the thousands of users who operate their business using only a smartphone with SME superapp Enstack. “Enstack has allowed us to...
Remittances in the Philippines have long been dominated by offline players in brick-and-mortar stores and cash pick up locations, but as social distancing came into effect as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the market, particularly the recipients shifted towards the realm of digital or online...
A trio of pro-digital transformation bills will all be on Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte's mind once sessions resume in the House of Representatives after the May 9 polls. (Sergey Zolkin/ Unsplash) Villafuerte said further digitalization should preoccupy lawmakers in the remaining...
With women’s influence in decision-making being wielded across more platforms of power, the Philippines has made huge strides towards this direction. The country ranked 2nd in the Asia-Pacific region and the 17th globally to close the gender gap, according to the World Economic Forum’s 2021...
NFT Art Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank), together with the non-profit Center for Art, New Ventures and Sustainable Development (CANVAS.PH), recently held a two-part webinar series centered around digital art in the age of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), to help artists, buyers, and collectors...
A site that will take you different places across the country EVERYTHING ABOUT PH DESTINATIONS '7641 Islands of the Philippines Digital Magazine' In a bid to further promote the various destinations in the country and fast track tourism recovery, the Department of Tourism (DOT) launches “7641...
TECH4GOOD Monchito Ibrahim Today, the global economy has a digital heartbeat, and many countries are beginning to grapple with the complexities of digital economy regulation. Digital applications now permeate all aspects of society and the economy. They now enable everyone to access services...
