Through a tie-up with Pioneer Insurance, PayMaya is giving its users free COVID-19 plus Personal Accident insurance coverage for one month worth P150,000 when they use their PayMaya account for safe cashless transactions from May 5 to June […]
Travelers within the United Arab Emirates will soon find themselves undergoing digital verification of COVID-19 medical records as Emirates and Dubai Health Authority (DHA) starts its implementation. International airlines Emirates customers who […]
Mindful thoughts about frontliners, young innovators developed solutions that would aid them as the COVID-19 pandemic still rages on in the Philippines. The students presented their creations at the Demo Day of […]
The Data Resilience for Ease Access and Management (DREAM) Team, in partnership with New Zealand Aid and the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation’s (PDRF) Project K3, launched information and communications technology (ICT) training […]
Filipino businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan opens the MVP Group’s emergency quarantine facility in Antipolo, Rizal, to help care for employees with asymptomatic to mild cases of COVID-19. Select areas within the 10-hectare […]
The latest survey by Accenture Research cemented the belief that life will never go back to where it was BC (Before COVID). The shift in working environments and business operations prompted companies […]
If the reaction to the increase in cyber threats, in terms of budget, is any indication, some companies in the Philippines could not be bothered. The latest survey of security solutions firm […]
Cloud security firm Trend Micro revealed that it blocked 16.7 million high-risk email threats that slipped past webmail providers’ native filters. This amounts to an increase of nearly a third of 2019 […]
Social media platform Twitter has started labeling tweets that may contain misinformation on the COVID-19. This is one of the company’s efforts in protecting public conversation surrounding COVID-19. Twitter started to roll […]
Software company SAS has been supporting the drug and COVID-19 vaccine development as health and pharmaceutical organizations digitally transform their clinical research analytics. The update of the SAS Life Science Analytics Framework […]
With the increasing demand for reliable information on COVID-19 vaccines, International SOS, a health and security services firm, created a “traffic light” indicator to help businesses track when, where, and how they […]
In its global report “One Giant Leap: The Growth of eCommerce Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Payoneer finds that e-commerce merchants saw an 80% increase in their revenues in both the second and […]
As many business leaders look to close the skills gap and cultivate a sustainable workforce amid COVID-19, a new IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) study reveals less than 4 in 10 […]
New internet users are disproportionately affected by the socio-economic impact of COVID-19, according to a study recently released by Google’s Next Billion Users initiative team. Called “New Internet Users in a COVID-19 […]
Over a month after the announcement of the partnership, mobile-first Singlife Philippines (Singlife) and e-wallet GCash launched the first of many products with “Cash for Dengue Costs.” Aside from the affordability of […]
The COVID-19 pandemic caused so much strain in the economy and stress in the workforce. Employers may need to look at the findings of the new study of Oracle and Workplace Intelligence, […]
By Sumit Bansal, Managing Director, Sophos, Asean Contact tracing is a key pillar in the efforts of many countries to manage the COVID-19 pandemic, along with mass testing and patient treatment. As […]
According to the latest Global Threat Landscape Report, a semiannual report by Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs, phishing and business email compromise schemes, nation-state backed campaigns, and ransomware attacks increased significantly from the first […]
Professional network platform LinkedIn sought the thoughts of startup founders and business owners who were able to wade through the pandemic and reverse what could have been an economic disaster for their […]
Digital life insurer Singlife Philippines has partnered with GCash to offer “simple and flexible” insurance products at affordable prices to help Filipinos protect themselves during the pandemic. Singlife said it will offer […]
Google Philippines is marking Buwan ng Wika (Language Month) with the launch of “Isang Gabay sa mga Salitang Kaugnay ng COVID-19 (Related Words/Terms on COVID-19)”. The diksyonaryongcovid19.com initiative recognizes how crucial are […]
Phishing is on the rise with more than 1.6 million attempts to transfer users to phishing pages via links within emails blocked from January to June, showing small and medium businesses need […]
The Kaspersky Q2 2020 DDoS attacks report has revealed that the number of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in the second quarter of 2020 increased three-fold in comparison to Q2 2019. […]
Powered by Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, the Global Health Drug Discovery Institute (GHDDI) launched a Free AI Virtual Screening Service for COVID-19 in order to […]
As nations loosen stay-at-home orders and businesses reopen, protecting vulnerable populations and the public at large from the COVID-19 virus is paramount. To help fuel better decisions, analytics company SAS debuts new […]
Remote work setup is a security nightmare for many organizations but with the current situation brought about by the effects of the pandemic, it can’t be helped. According to security experts from […]
The effects of COVID-19 practically threw outside the window all the business strategies and plans crafted last year. The new reality is something that nobody has foreseen — and it’s quite dramatic. […]
The Internet of Things (IoT) will be integral to the long-term recovery plans of the post-COVID-19 economy worldwide, yet some facets of the IoT itself will be negatively impacted in the short […]
Technology giants Google and Apple are making their jointly developed Exposure Notifications System available through software updates. With these updates, public health agencies (PHAs) around the globe can begin to deploy apps […]
As the community quarantine remains enforced in various parts of the country, Manulife Philippines (Manulife) has announced that it will extend its free insurance coverage to 25,000 active two-wheel riders from foodpanda, […]
