The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on Friday, June 11, in a virtual signing ceremony held simultaneously in Manila and Tokyo.
Sen. Manuel "Lito" Lapid has filed a bill which seeks to create the Transcendent Unified Government Mobile Application (TUGMA), an online portal of each government agency and instrumentality.
The DICT is seeking to reclassify spectrum users fees (SUF), which are collected annually from telcos, from Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses (MOOE) to “capital outlay”.
Two Singapore-headquartered fintech companies – UNObank and Tonik – have received approval from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to operate digital banks in the country.
Sancho Mabborang, the regional director for Cagayan Valley at the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), has been named the undersecretary for regional operations at the agency.
In the Philippines, the top five most popular apps and websites for Filipino children are YouTube (29.40%), TikTok (14.47%), Messenger (13.51%), Roblox (8.71%), and Facebook (8.50%).
In March, Arcserve announced its merger with StorageCraft, making the company one of the fifth largest data management and protection vendors around the world.