The E-Commerce Philippines 2024-2028 Roadmap is envisioned as a future-ready plan with 13 strategies and 28 deliverables aimed at building trust between online customers and sellers.
In a global study conducted by customer engagement platform Twilio, 77% of Filipino consumers want clear information on how their data is used in AI, but only 53% of brands are fulfilling this critical expectation.
A new research from AWS has revealed that when AI is fully harnessed, employers across Asean are willing to pay higher salaries of over 36% for workers with AI skills and expertise, with workers in IT (49%), and research and development (46%) enjoying the highest pay bumps.
Philippine services exports emerged as a powerhouse, with the sector experiencing a significant expansion of 17.4%, driving much of the overall export growth.
Facebook pages posing as Western military consultancy firms but may be linked to China, appear to be targeting Filipino defense industry researchers and analysts, a study by Newsbytes.PH showed.
In November last year, a Binance spokesperson based in South Korea told Newsbytes.PH that it has stopped its marketing activities in the Philippines while it seeks to comply with local regulations. It appears, however, that it did file any paper works to legalize its presence in the country.
A potentially damning report from Israel-based cybersecurity firm Cyberint has revealed that Chinese state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) group “Mustang Panda” conducted three cyber espionage campaigns against entities in the South Pacific, including the Philippine government, in August 2023.
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) asked the public to be discerning of the claim of a company called SK Pools Mining Corporation that its “products, services, and assets are licensed, authorized, guaranteed, verified, certified, or confirmed by the BSP.”
The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) has identified several scams that the public should be vigilant about, including fake accommodations, where villas, apartments, or seemingly legitimate hotel rooms that are advertised at “unbelievably low rates” but are non-existent.
NEDA secretary Arsenio Balisacan told a forum that access to reliable Internet services is no longer a luxury but a fundamental prerequisite for inclusive socioeconomic development.
