Business IT

With the QR-code system in place, Robinsons Department Store customers may now use their mobile phones for in-store transactions via their PayMaya app.

Merchants like Ministop will no longer need expensive machines to process mobile money transactions since they only need QR stickers with a unique code linked to their GCash wallet.

Smart said its LTE-A network consistently delivered speeds of over 300 Mbps in a single-user scenario, and over 200 Mbps in a multi-user, daytime set-up.

The partnership will spawn the first Blockchain Center in the Philippines, the first in a series of Blockchain Labs to be built across Southeast Asia.

PesoNet provides an electronic alternative to the still widely used paper-based check system, the BSP said.

Future-proofing the Philippine workforce ? especially in the BPO industry ? requires collaboration between the government and the sector itself. But the most crucial by far is the willingness of the workers to upgrade their skills.

The Lazada Online Revolution?s mega sale begins at 12 midnight on November 9 and closes on November 11. This will be followed by the Christmas sale from December 7 ? 12.

Customers of Smart Communications can now confirm via text message if their SIM is LTE-ready with the launch of its new LTE SIM check program via SMS.

With the bot, a person in Manila who wants to request money from another person, say a relative in the US, will just have to search for WU within Facebook Messenger and select ?Request Money.?