Dominant carrier PLDT and e-commerce giant Rocket Internet announced on Tuesday, Jan. 6, an agreement to establish a global joint venture for payment services with a focus on emerging markets, with each partner holding a 50-percent stake.
Wireless operator Smart Communications has announced that its Free Internet promo for all Smart, Talk ?N Text, and Sun Cellular subscribers has been extended to February 5, 2015.
Globe Telecom recently formalized its partnership with Flipside Publishing Services Inc. (FPSI) to promote the use of electronic books (e-books) in educational and corporate institutions nationwide.
Through VSAT, the corporate and enterprise information and communications technology arm of Globe Telecom will be running data services in the Philippines over an MPLS network, targeting automated teller machines or ATM banking, mining and government services as initial markets.
Globe Telecom has forged a partnership with mobile messaging application Line to allow Filipinos abroad to make free calls to Globe mobile and TM subscribers in the Philippines from December 24, 2014 to January 1, 2015.
In a curious case of coincidence, the top local e-shopping malls ? Lazada.com.ph and Zalora.com.ph -- are gearing up for what is shaping up to be as the country?s Black Friday online equivalent.
Two subsidiaries of telco giant PLDT -- PLDT Alpha Enterprise and ePLDT -- have announced a ?stronger? end-to-end partnership with Microsoft to promote more cloud-based solutions for local enterprises with Microsoft Office 365.
IT services provider Delaware Consulting, which is headquartered in Belgium, announced on Tuesday, Dec. 2, that it has opened an office in the Philippines.
Wireless operator Smart Communications posted an unprecedented 69.2-percent increase in mobile data revenues for the first nine months of 2014 versus the same period last year as more of its subscribers are using Web-enabled smartphones to access the mobile Internet.
The company?s postpaid segment revenues now form 38 percent of total mobile revenues as of the first nine months of 2014. Globe mobile revenues reached P57.6 billion, a 6-percent year-on-year growth against the P54.1 billion revenues recorded during the same period last year.
