Eskwelabs is currently offering free data science courses for Filipinos who might benefit from upskilling from home.

Patrick Parone and Hannah Ramos of University of the Philippines bested five other teams in the recent Go Green Philippine Finals. They will move on to represent the country in the APAC Regional Finals on April 16, 2020.

As worries around Covid-19 rise, more firms are investing in better means to ensure business continuity. Eastern Communications explains how the solutions many businesses are looking for may be in the cloud.

The app, designed by a Cebu-based tech expert, can monitor location and even other people that a user might have been in contact with.

Charitable organization HelpThru is gathering medical supplies to donate to local healthcare frontliners through their ONE for ONE Project.

UP CAP is staging an online job and internship fair for university students and fresh graduates next week.

How can Filipino students cope with the disruption of the school calendar until April 12, and how can edtech companies help students in distance learning?

Amidst the uncertainty of the Covid-19 pandemic, businesses and individuals are stepping up and showing their solidarity by offering their services and products to those badly affected by the crisis.

Local sunscreen Magwai propels for protection of corals

The team’s solution aims to connect local farmers to financial opportunities.

“Community leaders in the Philippines often tell us that some of the biggest challenges they face are a lack of access, training, and funding. We are excited to continue to invest in and support them through the Community Accelerator.”

“It’s all too often that we see ambitious, idealistic startups with compelling visions sadly ruined by an inability to keep up with rising costs of doing business. Companies like Penbrothers can save the day, and programs like the 500 Startups Global Launch make connecting with them easier than ever.”

“We started the Opportunity Fund...to widen our net and to find dynamic, investment-worthy startups within and beyond the IdeaSpace ecosystem and to earn additional revenues to support IdeaSpace in the future,” shares Meily.

“As a live streaming platform, Kumu realizes its responsibility in that and opens our doors to collaborate with anyone who are still unsure on how to proceed in the coming days.”

QBO Innovation Hub will be closing their headquarters in the interest of the health and safety of their community, but will proceed with most programs virtually.

With many people getting concerned about the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic, Globe and TM customers who subscribe to KonsultaMD may now get in touch with a doctor via their telehealth hotline sans mobile call charges.

Credit risk research company S&P Global Ratings believes Philippine banks could see another year of slow loan growth as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak. While it expects trade and private investments to slow in the Philippines, dragging on banks' lending business, it also believes banks will be resilient to external pressures supported by strong fundamentals.

Project AEDES utilizes big data to predict life-saving information-- for free.

The Philippines is fertile ground for women entrepreneurs. GoNegosyo’s annual Filipina entrepreneurship summit fosters this entrepreneurial drive.

KUMU, the country’s fastest-growing social media app, partners with NGO Voice of the Free in the fight against human trafficking through social media.

Investors share their thoughts on partnerships and development opportunities in PwC’s Philippine Startup Survey 2020.

IBM provides its Electronic Data Capture SaaS solution, IBM Clinical Development, free of charge to assist clinical development in the battle against Covid-19.

Travel and trade have not only expedited our lives, but also the diseases threatening them. We are collectively more vulnerable than ever to the societal and economic impacts of outbreaks by infectious diseases. We break down the numbers behind outbreaks like SARS, MERS, and Covid-19.

This new partnership more than doubles PearlPay’s community of rural banks across Southeast Asia.

“I think of these virtual reality experiences that we make as ‘empathy machines’…You read it in a book, but we put you there,” said Bernardo, who has seen viewers cry after watching their VR installations.

By proving another accessible payment option, both platforms hope to democratize traveling for unbanked and underbanked Filipinos.

UP’s Career Assistance Program presents Career Fair 2020: Live Your Success Story, a university-wide internship and employment fair that brings the biggest names from various industries under one roof.

New ‘Training of Trainers’ programme is part of Deloitte’s global WorldClass ambition to empower 2 million people in Southeast Asiaby 2030

The Department of Agriculture has confirmed this month that thousands of local livestock have been affected by ASF. While ASF only impacts pigs and not humans (therefore not a public health threat), the local pork industry is definitely straining against the spread of this new disease.

The five-day program trained social enterprises in various aspects of running a business, giving them access to a network organizations and investors.

With the establishment of PearlPay Hong Kong, PearlPay aimed to service HK-based OFWs looking for an easier way to send money home. Now, through their recent partnership with Transfez, PearlPay is hoping to do the same for Hong Kong’s Indonesian workers.

Community OS addresses friction of data access, gathering and analysis to give local communities, government units, and financial institutions access to the tools needed to monitor sustainable portfolios. In short, the platform makes communities bankable.

Master the basics first. That was one of the core messages emphasized last Friday at the sidelines of the 3rd GAIN National Convention. Its organizer,...

The market-centric online trading platform earned themselves a plane ticket to Dubai, free accommodations, and an exhibition booth at the final AIM 2020 Pitch Competition.

Zilingo launches suite of services for MSMEs selling on their platforms—ranging from branding and marketing to extending credit for more consistent sellers.

Noting PearlPay’s rising success in reaching parallel communities in the Philippines, Plug and Play Indonesia saw the opportunity to extend the digital toolkit PearlPay provides to Indonesia’s over 1,000 rural banks.

The project will also be providing various forms of financial and technical assistance to startups aiming to address relevant global issues.

In their vlog, the pair talked about witnessing the effect of the armed conflict in Marawi City in 2017 and their wish for peace and solidarity in the city.

https://youtu.be/mTXKyxuU3bE Zipline is the world’s first drone delivery service providing life-saving medicines to isolated communities otherwise considered unreachable. To date, they’ve made well over 14,000...

  When Aldo Carrascoso founded InterVenn Biosciences, his San Francisco-based healthtech company innovating around early cancer detection, he did it with one mission in mind:...

“The success of one startup is the success of all Filipinos,” says QBO President Butch Meily. Expansion into new cities, more investment support, and Philippine Startup Week 2020. Here’s what’s coming up for the QBO Innovation community.

Ahead of its next batch of startup incubatees, UP Diliman-based innovation hub UPSCALE revealed plans to work with various institutions both within the UP community and abroad.

Three hundred participants will be joining this year’s six-day course, where they will be hearing from over 20 speakers on topics spanning entrepreneurship, freelancing, e-commerce and social enterprises.

As the average consumer gets smarter and warier, it’s getting harder for marketers to make their brands stand out. But with a little courage and tons of feelings, they may be able to get their customers to listen.

SoGal Foundation hosts Manila pitch competition for startups with women and other underrepresented founders to compete for a 3-day startup bootcamp in Silicon Valley & chance to win investment capital.

“This partnership is a breakthrough to support our OFWs to secure and improve their lives overseas.”

Franchising goes beyond “lending” your business’ brand and operations. Mang Inasal and DoubleDragon’s Injap Sia talks about the important points of creating and running a successful franchise.

The top three participants in IdeaSpace’s acceleration program receive P1 million each as they continue to develop their startups under the organization.

Additional enhancements promise faster, guaranteed delivery times and wider coverage, providing shippers with increased flexibility in the Asia Pacific region

Under the P-TECH program, all students graduate with a high school diploma plus an associate degree in computer technology, preparing them for the future of “new collar jobs”.

So you hit your seed round goals. What next? Two startup founders share their insights on how to best manage investor money to make your business soar.

The digital economy is a goldmine for both businesses and consumers in Southeast Asia. What sectors are propelling its massive growth, and how can startups capitalize on their respective opportunities? Google, Temasek, and Bain & Company share e-Conomy SEA 2019 report.

With the signing of the act’s IRR, key stakeholders hope to boost both the economy and entrepreneurial culture through its various programs.

Landing a major corporate client can be a huge step forward for any startup, bringing in not only revenues, but access to a wider market. Three startup founders share their tips on streamlining these partnerships.

The Singapore-based tech firm commits to supporting local startups through partnerships, funds, and projects with the government and academe.

Google is famous for its fun and free corporate culture. Broadly speaking, it can be boiled down into some very simple principles. During Philippine Startup Week, Google shared the 4 core principles that made them the company that they are today.

As part of Philippine Startup Week 2019, Quezon City Tech Day served as both culmination of and launching point for Launchgarage’s efforts to turn their city into an innovation capital.

“Our employee mentors who shared financial and technology expertise were greatly impressed by the breadth of innovative ideas. We congratulate all participants for taking the initiative to solve important problems affecting our communities and we look forward to cheering on the selected teams from the Philippines at the Regional Summit ... in April 2020.”

GorricetaLaw has established itself as a leading firm in navigating the legal frontiers of emerging technologies like fintech, artificial intelligence, and blockchain. Among their clients are Xurpas, Zalora, Rappler, and Coins.ph.

Every rising business gaining traction reaches an inflection point wherein founders need to choose between their scrappy, garage approach to doing business or professional solutions more fitting the scaleup they've become. Kaspersky CBO Alexander Moiseev shares his insights.

The local headquarters of graphic design company Canva is looking at doubling their workforce, especially their design and operations team, by 2020 as the country continues to be “design hub” for the company.

The Global Institute for Youth Development Office, along with the city government of Puerto Princesa, host this year’s National Young Leaders’ Conference, beginning tomorrow and running till Nov. 26.

Now in its third year, the summit features a deep lineup of prominent global traders, fund managers, and financial market influencers, as well as two days of workshops and socials.

The digital influencer marketing agency celebrate Halloween with a classic spookfest.

Set to happen on November 18-22, the Philippine Startup Week 2019 will bring together startup communities from different cities and provinces, making it the first-of-its kind startup gathering in the country.

Facebook Community Boost is a global initiative that aims to educate enterprises and organizations on their platform’s tools and learning resources, teaching how to best utilize them for optimal reach and growth.

With 10,000 attendees, 200+ partners, and exhibitors, and over 50 startups, this year’s “Festival of Innovation” spans two days from November 15 to 16, 2019 at SMX Convention Center Aura.

A recent study revealed that 60 percent of consumers use emotional language to describe products or brands they love–the same vocabulary used for family and friends. So how do you build that kind of authentic relationship with customers? By creating relatable content.

KUMU is the country’s fastest-growing social media app. For Rexy Josh Dorado, KUMU’s president and co-founder, it’s the culmination of a career built on advocacy, championing the countless talents of the Filipino diaspora.

If there are compelling professional and personal reasons to embrace remote working, why, then, are Filipino companies so in favor of on-site working? While there are cultural reasons at play the biggest roadblock to remote working is technological.

The innovations announced today are designed to help organizations overcome the barriers to AI. From detecting ‘drift’ in AI models to recognizing nuances in the human voice, these new capabilities can be run across any cloud via IBM’s Cloud Pak for Data platform to begin easily connecting their vast data stores to AI.

Earlier today, fintech startup PearlPay formally entered a strategic partnership with the Association of Pangasinan Rural Banks (APRUB) to help facilitate the digital transformation...

Google Developers Launchpad and IdeaSpace announce partnership

“We’ve high hopes for this cohort. They’re more mature,” said Butch Meily, president of IdeaSpace. “In the past we would take prototypes, but we’re no longer doing that. We’re looking for more mature startups that have a business model, revenues, and that are going for the long run.”

Koji Takahashi of EduLab Capital Partners, a new investor in Edukasyon.ph, stated, “We are thrilled to be joining Edukasyon.ph in creating value for the youth and various educators in the Philippines. This marks EduLab Capital Partners’ first investment in the Asia Pacific region, and we are excited to extend our global presence and network to aid successful startups in transforming education through innovation."