Asian online grocery firm HappyFresh has announced that will open its fifth office in Asia in the Philippines, which is set to become fully operational in the second quarter of 2016.
The development plan covers the next four years or 2016 to 2020. It was drafted by the e-commerce division of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) about 15 years after the passage of the E-Commerce Law in 2000.
The five new agencies -- the DepEd, the Department of Social Work and Development, the Department of Finance -- Bureau of Local Government Finance (DOF-BLGF), the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC), and the Public Private Partnership (PPP) Center -- are the second batch of government agencies to sign agreements with Kalibrr and Bagumbayani.
ABM Global Solutions (AGS), the business solutions management unit of ePLDT, has joined forces with cloud computing firm NetSuite to provide local companies enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution.
E-commerce continues to thrive in the Philippines with six out of 10 Filipinos buying products and services online – an increase from only 46 percent in 2014 – with almost 60 percent of those below the age of 35 having shopped online using their mobile devices, according to recent Visa research.
Smart Padala, the remittance service of telco firm Smart Communications, has launched Smart Padala PickUp Anywhere, which allows consumers to send remittances to any mobile phone number, no matter the mobile telecom provider.
The allocation of the 79 GHz frequency band provides a globally harmonized regulatory framework for automotive radar to prevent collisions, which will improve vehicular safety and reduce traffic accidents.
Filipino tech pioneer Jim Ayson, who chronicled the country’s advent into the PC age until the introduction of the Internet and eventually the boom of social media, has died due to heart attack. He was 53.
The phenomenal ALDub love story broke Twitter record books over the weekend as the sold-out “Tamang Panahon” charity concert had over 41 million Tweets for the #ALDubEBTamangPanahon hashtag on October 24.
