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Sen. Grace Poe said text scams have remained rampant despite efforts by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) and telcos to warn the public against text scams and make them block or report the messages.

Among Southeast Asian countries, the pattern of declining mobile threat activity was observed not only in the Philippines but also in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.

Noname Security, a vendor providing proactive API security platform, has been chosen by Tonik – the Philippines’ first neobank -- to help safeguard a critical component of its digital platform as it seeks to address new retail lending opportunities in Southeast Asia.

Common tower provider Phil-Tower Consortium has announced the completion of their 200th cell site, a major milestone for the industry as the last 100 sites were completed in just over a month.

The Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA), the government agency in charge of collecting travel taxes, has tapped local tech firm MyEG Philippines to expand the payment options for its Online Travel Tax Services System (OTTSS).

To power its soon-to-launch fintech marketplace for Filipinos, cryptocurrency Frenetic has selected BLOX as its blockchain backbone.

The United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts (UNECC) aims to facilitate the use of electronic communications in international trade by ensuring that contracts concluded and other communications exchanged electronically are as valid and enforceable as their traditional paper-based equivalents.

Paulo Martin “Santi” Santos will be tasked with implementing strategic technology initiatives to further modernize the network infrastructure of Converge.

A total of 10,487 students are set to enter college in academic year 2022-2023 as new science scholars as the Department of Science and Technology - Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) releases the official list of names of the scholarship qualifiers.

After onboarding 100,000 sari-sari stores in Luzon, Filipino startup Growsari has announced its plan to expand to Visayas and Mindanao with the aim of hitting its target of 300,000 store partners by 2023.