Entrepreneurs and businesses who attended the recently held E-Commerce Business Seminar series of the DTI learned about digital payments acceptance for both online and face-to-face transactions with the PayMaya Business suite of digital payments solutions as well as the how-to?s of setting up an online store with TackThis! e-commerce store builder.
Banks and other financial institutions should empower their clients with greater user controls over their accounts in light of increasing incidents of data breaches globally, including the recent Commission on Elections (Comelec)-related data leak allegedly exposing personal sensitive information of more than 55 million voters in the Philippines.
Consumers looking to get a car loan may now do so now as Lendr, the country?s first 24/7 digital loans marketplace, has gone live with China Bank Savings (CBS) as inaugural partner.
With the deadline for filing for income tax again approaching, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has partnered with GCash mobile money service to re-launch the first electronic filing and payment system in the country.
The expanded program is a result of the stellar performance of the original LMLS service, launched in September 2014, and touted as the country's first electronic salary loans program. The initial offering was limited to salary loans for government employees.
Apart from the 10 New Wave Cities, government and industry leaders also elevate Davao City and Iloilo City to the status of Centers of Excellence for IT-BPM operations. They join the ranks of Metro Manila, Metro Cebu, Metro Clark, and Bacolod City as premier IT-BPM hosts and high-density locations.
The DTI cited the Salamander, an amphibious flood faring utility vehicle by H20 Technologies, as one of the country?s best innovations in the past year.
Half of Asian business leaders expect that e-commerce would represent at least 30 percent of their organizations? growth in the next five years and 32% think e-commerce would capture more than 20% of the total sales.
The partnership comes at an opportune time for the insurance industry in the Philippines. Life insurance penetration in the Philippines remains to be low.
IT outsourcing giant Accenture formally inaugurated on Friday, March 4, its latest site in San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte, making Northern Luzon the location of its third delivery center.
