Globe Telecom is partnering with the local WordPress Community to co-host the event, which will be held June 9 in the Globe Towers in Bonifacio Global City in Taguig.
Yoobids.com?s business model works by offering various items and gadgets, which online bidders can acquire for P1.00 or even less. They must, however, compete with other shoppers across the nation.
The GrabCar app is included in the current free GrabTaxi mobile app itself that is available for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry devices. Users can select the GrabCar option to narrow down the search for GrabCar vehicles that provides an authorized private driver.
The 48-hour hackathon gathered over 90 IT developers, designers, students, data experts, disaster experts, and ordinary citizens under one roof to collaborate in teams and develop locally relevant Web and mobile applications to help solve Disaster Risk Management (DRM) challenges.
The DOST, through the Information and Communications Technology Office (ICT Office), has started a series of start-up workshops this year, which will be held in various cities of Lingayen, Iligan, Tuguegarao, Naga, Dumagete, and General Santos City.
A sign that the Philippine tech scene is indeed starting to mature, the Founder Institute ? said to be the world's largest start-up launch program -- has officially launched its chapter in Manila.
The Open Data Philippines Task Force has announced that it is holding the second of its series of hackathons, titled ?Readysaster: Hack for Resilience,? which will take place on May 10-11, 2014.
With about eight million local users, Israel-based Viber is one of the top -- if not the biggest -- messaging apps in the country. It competes with the likes of China?s WeChat, Korea?s KakaoTalk, US's WhatsApp, and Japan?s Line.
As the country's netizens continue to be ever more hyper-social, WeChat said it is urging businesses to be more creative in reaching their target consumers online by being present in social media platforms.