Ride-sharing app Uber has announced that cash payments will now be available to all Cebu riders starting Friday, July 8, making Cebu the first city in the Philippines to offer the convenience of cash payments to all riders.
Noting that mobile Internet cost in Philippines is expensive, the developer also put an ?offline-mode? in the app that allows the user to pre-load and bookmark articles so he or she does not waste precious mobile traffic.
Impact Hub Manila, a startup incubator co-founded by Filipino-Swiss LizAn Kuster, is staging a startup competition, this time for a fellowship program focused on sustainable energy solutions.
The event, which will be held on August 25-26, will have the theme "Empowering Startups, Leading Change? as the conference puts emphasis on startup communities or enterprises driven by innovation through software or applications.
The UN Women Safe Cities Metro Manila Program and the Quezon City local government are organizing a hackathon titled, ?Safe Cities Hackathon: Tech the Path for Women?s Safety? through its event coordinator, 8layer Technologies Inc.
Facebook has announced that it will give the 51 million Filipinos on Facebook the chance to share that they've voted in this Monday's elections, with an "I'm a Voter" button that will appear in the Facebook News Feeds of those eligible to vote.
