The 14,000-kilometer Jupiter Cable system is the newest international gateway connecting the Philippines directly from PLDT’s cable landing station in Daet, Camarines Norte to Japan and the US West Coast.
As the bear market rally continues in the background, mobile wallet and payments services provider GCash is looking into cementing the Web 3.0 and cryptocurrency space in the Philippines by focusing on initiatives that will drive education and innovations.
Under the 5% discount, which is distinct from the 20% regular discount, allows senior citizens and PWDs to have a maximum purchase amount of P1,300 a week for both online and offline transactions, without carryover of the unused amount.
InterVenn Biosciences, a glycoproteomics company headquartered in California, is set to bring its AI-driven research and clinical analysis solutions in the Philippine market after recently announcing the launch of its local office located in Pasig.
This comes in the wake of an incident in Laguna where a group of men intentionally cut and damaged PLDT fiber optic cables, disrupting the delivery of PLDT services in the area, and also of persistent reports nationwide of sabotage of PLDT fiber optic cables, causing outages and hardship to subscribers.
Assessment technology provider Mercer-Mettle, a company that primarily delivers talent assessment and remote proctoring solutions for the local business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, has officially launched SpeechX – the company’s newest English proficiency test software tool powered by artificial intelligence.
The Jupiter Cable System is now the fastest cable system between the Philippines and the United States. Once fully equipped, it is anticipated to increase PLDT’s international capacity of 20 Terabit/s to about 60 Terabit/s.
The value of digital payments in the country, meanwhile, represented 44.1 percent of total retail payments in 2021, up from the 26.8 percent recorded a year earlier.
Dell Technologies continues to be the “number one” in the local external storage industry in terms of market share, country general manager Ronnie Latinazo said on Tuesday, June 28.
The new Philippine location of Bain & Company in Manila marks the company’s growing reach in the Southeast Asian region, the international business and management consultancy firm said on Thursday, June 23.
