From left: Packworks founders, Hubert Yap, Bing Tan, and Ibba Bernardo. “It is not about the destination. It’s about the journey.” And for Hubert Yap, Bing Tan and Ibba Bernardo, a motorcycle journey meant to bring solar panels to isolated communities revved-up an idea in their minds that has...
75608 Mobile wallet GCash on Friday, April 1, projected it will sustain its growth momentum for 2022 as it offers new digital business solutions for micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). "After reaching acquisition targets, launching new products and growing our presence in the MSME...
The rise of e-commerce has led to the blossoming of the Philippine beauty and cosmetics market, which is developing demand for items that specifically cater to the needs of the Filipino skin. Aiming to help Filipinos reach their goal of healthy, glowing skin, DMD Skin Sciences is paving the way to...
Mr. Paul Rivera of Kalibrr Online job-matching platform, Kalibrr, a local startup, serves over 6 million Filipino jobseekers todate and processes 10 million job applications annually, a record it intends to break soon, announced CEO and co-founder Paul Rivera. So far, in its past nine years of...
Pitching their business ideas is one of the vital tasks that startups and entrepreneurs have to master in order to launch or grow their companies. Their main challenge is how to make it convincingly and powerfully enough to persuade investors to finance their new products and services. Addressing...
Secuna, the Philippines' largest cybersecurity testing platform, appointed its co-founder AJ Dumanhug to lead the company as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). AJ Dumanhug is the co-founder and former infosec lead at Secuna,a Cybersecurity Mentor for startups through Ideaspace Philippines,a part-time...
In its bid to help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the San Juan City local government opened on Thursday, Nov. 15, the registration for its Christmas Bazaar which will start next month. "Ang Lungsod ng San Juan ay magsasagawa ng Christmas Bazaar sa...
Representative Lucy Torres-Gomez (4th District, Leyte) on Monday pressed the national government to provide low-interest loans to owners of small and medium businesses to use as working capital so they can grow or expand their investments. Torres-Gomez said doing so would help them withstand the...
An enterprise-level company hit by a data breach will lose over P52 million; a small and medium business will bleed at least P5 million, on top of reputational damages which result in loss of customers, according to the latest findings of global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky. A data breach happens...
State-run Land Bank of the Philippines has launched a new lending program to support the local hog industry amid threats from the African swine fever (ASF) outbreak. In a statement, the government-owned lender said it has earmarked P15 billion for the special window and interim support to nurture...
The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) is encouraging consumers and the working population to respond to a new survey on confidence in the safe and gradual opening of the economy. In a statement, Acting Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl Kendrick T. Chua said the key to a real...
The APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Philippines has urged the 21-member countries of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation to accelerate cooperation leveraging digital technologies to overcome further decline as economies continue to battle the impact of the pandemic. In a recent virtual ABAC...
