The Department of Information and Communications Technology’s (DICT) eGovPH Hackathon 2026 showcased nine government application programming interfaces (APIs) for developers, but complaints from participants over registration problems, delays, and the judging process have overshadowed the two-day event.
Maxim Rides & Food Delivery has added a self-service guide to its Taxsee Driver app, allowing driver-partners to find information about the platform without contacting customer support.
Financial technology company SwiftPay has introduced SwiftGuard, a software platform that allows Philippine banks and other financial institutions to screen transactions and respond to suspected fraud in real time.
Microsoft will deploy AMD’s next-generation Helios rack-scale systems on its Azure cloud platform as the companies expand their collaboration across processors, networking hardware, and artificial intelligence software.
Toyota Motor Philippines (TMP) has started selling the global ninth-generation Hilux, introducing updated diesel models alongside the nameplate’s first battery-electric 4x4 variant.
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have signed an information-sharing agreement aimed at speeding up the investigation and prosecution of financial account scams.
A locally developed platform is using artificial intelligence (AI) to help lawyers and ordinary Filipinos search Philippine laws and court decisions using everyday language, while checking citations against source documents before displaying an answer.
Alibaba Cloud has introduced new technologies for building, monitoring, and coordinating enterprise AI agents as it shifts its cloud infrastructure from an “AI-native” to an “agent-native” architecture.
The Landbank Visa Government Purchase Card allows agencies to set credit limits, restrict transactions to approved merchant categories, and monitor purchases digitally. It is intended for low-value procurement, official travel and recurring expenses, among other expenditures permitted under government rules.
Digital advocacy group Digital Pinoys has called on Dermalog to turn over the source code and other technical components of the Land Transportation Management System (LTMS), saying recurring outages showed the need for the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to gain full operational control of the platform.
