And how this campaign attempts to revive one of the most essential forms of entertainment Many believe that reading, especially critical reading, is on the decline. Thanks to technology, life holds more distractions today and social media has in various ways destroyed the far more useful and...
(File photo courtesy of DepEd) Latest reports from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and World Bank ranked the Philippines as one of the countries struggling the most with basic literacy, basic numeracy, and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) delivery....
Globe Telecom Inc. has set the price of its P17 billion stock rights offering at P1,680 per share while setting the entitlement ratio at one rights share for every 13.2366 shares held. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the firm said its offering price is equivalent to a 22.6 percent...
Members of the Ayala Group of Companies announced the resignation of Fernando Zobel de Ayala from various leadership positions in the company less than a month after he suddenly took a temporary medical leave of absence for an undisclosed illness. In separate but similarly-worded disclosures to the...
Globe Telecom Inc. blocked 36.7 million bank-related spam and scam messages from January to August this year through collaboration and data-sharing with partner banks, the telco announced Thursday, Sept. 8. While Globe’s campaign against online fraud largely involves blocking of scam and spam...
Local fraudsters used a popular e-wallet, GCash, and Viber, an online messaging platform, to harvest the names of subscribers in the latest scams plaguing the public, according to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). “Our initial investigation showed that criminals may have acquired or...
Globe Telecom Inc. has reduced the size of its planned stock rights offering (SRO) to P17 billion from the earlier proposed P32 billion. In a disclosure, the firm its SRO was approved by the Philippine Stock Exchange last Sept. 1 and shareholders as of the record date of Sept. 21 (ex-date Sept. 16)...
Globe Telecom Inc. hauled P40 billion revenues from data-related products and services across mobile and corporate data in the first half of 2022, surpassing pre-pandemic figures, the telco disclosed Monday, September 5. “With digitalization, data use is growing rapidly and we already see it...
Globe Telecom Inc. blocked 784 million scam and spam messages in the first seven months of 2022, deactivated 14,058 scam-linked mobile numbers and blacklisted 8,973 more, the telco announced Wednesday night, August 31. "Our anti-spam and scam operations continue 24/7 and we have put in place...
After local telcos' loss of network equipment surged 59 percent year-on-year in the first seven months of 2022, they banded together to form the National Telecommunications Security Council (NTSC). PLDT, Inc. spearheaded the national industry-wide initiative to protect telecom infrastructure from...
Globe Telecom Inc. has started posting dramatic gains from its non-telco business, which grew 118 percent, hauling P1.9 billion revenues as of June, 2022 and contributed 2.4 percent to gross service revenues, the company reported Tuesday, Aug. 30. The rapid growth of the non-telco businesses...
Local telcos continued to scale up the nationwide deployment of 5th Generation (5G) wireless technology in the first half of the year as demand for the service surges. In the first semester alone, Globe Telecom Inc. built 933 sites and its 5G network outdoor coverage reached 97 percent of the...
