To encourage more people to shift to electric vehicles, Mayor Herbert Bautista recently signed an ordinance exempting alternative fuel powered vehicles from number coding in Quezon City.
The company marked its venture into the Philippine market via a launch event themed Next Generation Datacenter Security on Friday, April 24 at the Makati Shangri-La with over 100 guests in attendance.
Lazada is owned by Rocket Internet, a German Internet company in which PLDT, the main rival of Globe, has a minority stake. In August last year, PLDT invested $445 million in Rocket Internet.
Telco giant PLDT announced on Thursday, April 23, that it has invested $15 million (about P664 million) in Malaysia-based technology start-up iflix, which plans to be Southeast Asia's leading Internet TV service.
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has warned the public against a scam that victimizes people who receive phone calls after meeting supposed foreigner nationals online.
At a time when the potential of the Internet for economic and social benefit seems boundless, major issues loom that could affect the ability of billions of people ? 96 percent of them in emerging markets ? to get connected and participate fully in the digital economy.
The High Court nixed the Comelec-Smartmatic deal amid allegations of indiscretion and abuse surrounding the awarding of the repair contract, but Escudero said the SC ruling will not impede the conduct of the 2016 elections since there were other options available to the poll body.
The rapid growth of the IT-BPO (information technology-business process outsourcing) industry and the remittance inflows from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) will fuel the Philippine to become a $1-trillion economy by 2029.
The SC ruled that the Comelec failed to justify its resort to direct contracting with Smartmatic-TIM. The High Court said its claims of impracticality were not supported by independently verifiable data and its perceived "warranty extension" is, in, reality, a circumvention of the procurement law.
