The poll found that Filipinos spend about P95 in Grab as compared to P135 in Uber, and P125 in taxies, respectively, when traveling on average of 30 minutes for five kilometers within the city center in moderate traffic during non-peak hours.
The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) is making a last-minute attempt to convince lawmakers to restore the P1 billion that was slashed from the budget of the controversial Philippine-California Advanced Research Institutes (PCARI) Project.
Team Pentagon from Cavite State University was recently awarded the ultimate winner in the first #PLDT88 Hackathon Challenge for an solution called "PLDT TechGo" that enables a PLDT subscriber in need of technical support to contact the nearest technician around the area.
Philippine team ?Execration? put up a gallant stand when it reached the ROG Masters World Finals held recently in Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre in Malaysia but was swept, 0-3, by highly touted ?Team Secret? from Europe.
Plans are being finalized, including a review of the regulatory requirements and institutional arrangements, to hasten the entry of new competitors to invest in the Philippines in the ICT and energy sectors.
The PLDT-owned unit said the average download speeds of its 3G service increased nearly six times to 6 Mbps, while LTE speeds increased more than four times to over 17 Mbps.
The Philippines ranked 12th globally for malicious codes in 2015, third in Asia Pacific and Japan in social media scams with a total of 46,377 in the same year, seventh in the region for ransomware attacks (6,356), and 14th in Asia Pacific and Japan for spear-phising, targeting wholesale trade.
Pawnshop operator Cebuana Lhuillier has entered into a partnership with Globe Telecom to expand the coverage of the G-Cash mobile money platform operated by Globe?s fintech subsidiary Mynt.
Enterprise applications company IFS has announced that its long-time partner ProV International is expanding the software firm?s footprint in the Philippines to nurture the growth of IFS Applications.