Smartwatches – a game changer in the future of preventive healthcare?
With Garmin smartwatches, you can actively track your family’s vital signs on PhysioQ’s self-monitoring app
Our bodies can show indications of health through vital signs...
IBM veers away from facial recognition, advocates for racial equity
Patricia Mirasol
The brazen arrest and murder of African-American George Floyd by a US police officer has sparked outrage and introspection across America and the globe...
Education’s new normal: a chat with Edukasyon.ph’s Henry Motte-Muñoz
Patricia Mirasol
Here, he shares his thoughts on distance learning and Philippine education in the new normal
The contract that could: How service contracting can improve public transportation and help Filipinos
Mariel Alison L. Aguinaldo
De la Peña: service contracting to improve PH transportation, help ease traffic
A once-in-a-generation challenge to save the Philippine startup ecosystem
James Lette, Executive Director of Manila Angel Investors Network
The challenge facing the Philippines is unprecedented. A global health crisis wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic has become an economic calamity due to the...
Saving lives, one drone at a time
Santiago J. Arnaiz
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...
Meet the Silicon Valley-based Filipino founder fighting to end cancer
Santiago J. Arnaiz
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:...
UNDP’s Youth Social Innovation Lab Gathers the Best in Filipino Youth Innovation
Patricia Mirasol
“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.”
HK protests lead to cancellation of global tech conference RISE
Santiago J. Arnaiz
Amidst rampant security concerns and social unrest, the company behind global tech conference RISE cancels their flagship summit, slated for March 2020.
"Our number one...
Fintech startup PearlPay signs new deal to digitalize rural banks in Pangasinan
Team SparkUp
Earlier today, fintech startup PearlPay formally entered a strategic partnership with the Association of Pangasinan Rural Banks (APRUB) to help facilitate the digital transformation...
3,500 gather at Smart Araneta Coliseum for world’s largest hackathon attempt
Mariel Alison L. Aguinaldo
After months of anticipation, Impact Hub’s Impact Hackathon finally kicked off on October 30. Serving as an official attempt at the Guinness World Records...
Chubs Chasers marks 4th year, offers 40% discount
In July 27, 2015, two curvy, food-loving ladies Dianne Manalansan and Chef Carvyna Alvarez got together and decided to create a hangout where families...