Business IT

Lazada is owned by Rocket Internet, a German Internet company in which PLDT, the main rival of Globe, has a minority stake. In August last year, PLDT invested $445 million in Rocket Internet.

Industry leaders, business owners, and IT professionals gathered for discussions, workshops, and knowledge sharing on how to communicate in the digital sphere.

The rapid growth of the IT-BPO (information technology-business process outsourcing) industry and the remittance inflows from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) will fuel the Philippine to become a $1-trillion economy by 2029.

DigPH is the first digital marketing convention in the Philippines for SMEs.

Prizes include trips to Hong Kong or Boracay, tickets to the Katy Perry concert on May 7, or passes to the Pacquiao-Mayweather pay-per-view screenings on May 3 among others.

Tesda said it will channel P65 million worth of scholarship vouchers for the pre-employment training and retooling of incoming workers in the industry, according to separate Memorandum of Agreements (MOAs) recently signed by Tesda director-general Joel Villanueva with the Healthcare Information Management Association of the Philippines (HIMOAP) and Animation Council of the Philippines (ACPI).

In 2014, GCash launched Globe Charge, a mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) service that has equipped over 1,500 entrepreneurs and SMEs to accept credit card payments to date.

Smart e-Money is the first non-financial institution in Southeast Asia to receive such a license.

IMI recorded $800 million in EMS-related revenues for 2014, a 13.9% year-on-year growth and is the only Filipino-owned company in the list.

As a retort to the claim of Globe Telecom that it is now the top mobile service provider in the country, tech titan PLDT has asserted that its mobile subsidiary Smart Communications continues to be the top mobile service provider in the Philippines, in terms of subscriber base and revenues.