According to data from market research firm IDC, PC shipments reached 518,645 units, growing 7% year-on-year (YoY). Such robust growth reinforces the Philippine PC market?s position as among the few in the world to still see growth.
Online firm OLX Philippines, the most visited website in the country, has installed a new top country executive in its first massive leadership change since a South African investment firm bought Sulit.com.ph and adopted its current name.
The Department of Education (DepEd) has teamed up with the local office of software firm Microsoft to launch a self-contained Internet-connected classroom called EGG that can be transported to remote areas and can generate its own water and power system.
A former chief legal counsel of Globe Telecom has been tapped by President-elect Rodrigo Duterte to head the newly created Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), reliable sources told Newsbytes.PH over the weekend.
Just a week after sealing a P69.1-billion deal to acquire the telecom assets of San Miguel Corporation, fierce competitors Globe Telecom and PLDT collaborated again to establish a long-awaited bilateral IP peering arrangement.
Car-sharing app Uber launched on Wednesday, June 15, a new carpooling service in the country called uberPOOL, which allows riders going to the same place at the same time to share the journey and split the cost.
In addition to expanding network capacities in major areas where there is commuter traffic, Globe will also provide free Wi-Fi services in all MRT Line 3 stations. This is expected to benefit about 350,000 who will have free Wi-Fi access for 30 minutes daily.
This is quite a departure from the strategy taken by outgoing secretary Mario Montejo, whose entrepreneurial mindset and go-getter attitude allowed the DOST to roll out ambitious initiatives such as Diwata-1 micro-satellite and Project Noah.
In a statement, the PCC said it is within its powers to probe the mammoth deal since it is empowered under the law to ?evaluate all business agreements and transactions that may have potential impacts on market competition.?
