Business IT

Customers of Smart Communications can now confirm via text message if their SIM is LTE-ready with the launch of its new LTE SIM check program via SMS.

With the bot, a person in Manila who wants to request money from another person, say a relative in the US, will just have to search for WU within Facebook Messenger and select ?Request Money.?

The new facilities will increase the company?s footprint by roughly 100,000 square feet and over 2,000 new jobs.

Co-working space provider Acceler8 sees an opportunity to help offices cope with the daily burgeoning traffic situation in Metro Manila.

Just a few days after military combat operations ceased in Marawi City, state-owned lender Land Bank of the Philippines has reactivated its ATMs in the devastated city. Lower photo shows Landbank Marawi branch manager Caloy Mamacotao and Mindanao State University (MSU) vice chancellor Florencio Recoleto Jr. formally opening the reactivated ATMs inside the MSU campus in Marawi City.

To pay for goods and services using GCash, customers have to scan the QR code displayed in the establishment using the GCash app?s scan-to-pay feature.

Local operator PLDT said it recently completed its program to roll out fiber-powered broadband facilities in the Bonifacio Global City (BGC) in Taguig City.

Western Union says it aware of the growing impact of digital technology in the remittance business, noting that consumers are driving the demand for digital services.

The Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) recently approved Qualcomm River Holdings? acquisition of shares in NXP Semiconductors.

The fiber infrastructure runs through the provinces of Agusan del Norte, Agusan del Sur, Davao del Norte, and Davao del Sur.