The biggest change to the market was the addition of lesser-known Chinese brands Oppo and vivo, which pushed out previous fourth and fifth place players Lenovo and Xiaomi, respectively, in the top five.
The campaign website of presidential candidate Grace Poe was discovered hacked at around noon on Wednesday, April 27. The site's administrator, however, was able to restore the site immediately.
The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) has launched its new electronic filing system known as eTMFile, which allows the online filing of new trademark applications and is linked to three different payment channels.