A new technology startup aims to disrupt the real estate industry by offering short-term office and retail space without engaging in a long-term financial commitment.
The Information and Communications Technology Office (ICT Office) of the DOST, in partnership with 1337 Ventures and TechTalks.ph, is set to run a pre-accelerator program for startups in their early stages.
Pension firm Social Security System (SSS) has brought on board Pointwest Technologies, a Filipino-owned IT company to develop one of the agency?s core projects more accessible to its members.
The Department of Trade and Industry and the German government are supporting the development of a mobile application that will enable local businesses to lower their electric bills by as much as 40 percent per month.
First tested in GrabTaxi's home country of Malaysia, GrabExpress also uses GrabTaxi's mobile app to offer on-demand delivery service for personal or business use for a flat fee of P80.
A local app developer, in partnership with a telco firm, has donated Android tablets to the Highway Patrol Group of the Philippine National Police that would enable them to reduce the time to clear vehicular road accidents.
The online productivity suite will now cost Filipino customers $30 per person per year, down from $50 per person per year. The 40-percent reduction in price is designed to help more small businesses experience the productivity and security benefits of working with online tools.
The online wedding platform seeks to establish more presence in the country to administer their on-ground operations more efficiently, the firm said in a statement.
The Philippine Startup Roadmap, launched at the recently concluded Geeks on a Beach (GOAB) tech conference in Boracay, is aiming to spawn some 500 startups with an estimated cumulative valuation of $2 billion by 2020.
To be launched in conjunction with ?Geeks on a Beach,? the roadmap provides a framework for developing the Philippine startup ecosystem, which mainly consists of Internet-related innovation.
