Philippines

ASEAN Tech 4 min GCash Priced Its IPO a Third Below the Ceiling. It Can Still Be the Philippines' Biggest. Mynt set P6.60 a share, valuing the e-wallet operator near P442 billion. About four in five base shares are so... SA Sarah Chew 2 Oct ASEAN Tech 4 min The Philippines Blocked Discord for a Day, Without a Court Order The block followed a 24-hour ultimatum over child safety and ended after the platform promised new measures. T... SA Sarah Chew 30 Sep ASEAN Tech 5 min The Philippines Gets Its First Big AI Cluster in 2027 The deployment takes Aolani past 48,000 accelerators and 100 megawatts. The split between the two countries, t... DA Daniel Koh 23 Sep ASEAN Tech 5 min The Philippines Froze Its Own Tech Budget to Summon Zuckerberg Lawmakers deferred their own technology department's 2027 budget to force Meta to answer on child safety. The... SA Sarah Chew 18 Sep ASEAN Tech 6 min The Philippines May Make Its National ID the Age Check for Social Media The statistics authority says PhilSys can confirm an age threshold without exposing a name. The privacy commis... SA Sarah Chew 16 Sep ASEAN Tech 7 min Philippine Telcos Will Spend $2.2bn in the Year Their Moat Was Removed A new law lets competitors build networks without an act of Congress. The three incumbents answered by committ... SA Sarah Chew 14 Sep Science 7 min Twenty Minutes a Week on the Phone Beat the Ed-Tech, at $11 a Child Five randomised trials, including one in the Philippines, found phone tutoring tripled the gains of the averag... NA Nadia Rahim 12 Sep Business 8 min The Philippines Plans 1.5 Gigawatts by 2033. It Has 50 Megawatts Now. A $34.4 billion masterplan, 61 per cent of it from private investors who have not committed. Next door, Laos a... DA Daniel Koh 12 Sep Privacy & Data 6 min Roblox May Check Filipino Ages Against the National ID System Facial estimation, document checks and national ID verification are being discussed as though they were the sa... PR Priya Nair 31 Aug Consumer Tech 6 min Nokia's New $38 Phone Only Works Where 2G Still Runs The Nokia 300 Charge launched first in the Philippines with a 40-day standby claim and a port that charges oth... AM Amelia Wong 30 Aug ASEAN Tech 7 min Two Incidents Account for Half of the Philippines' 335 Million Exposed Records Credentials are not records, records are not people, and 255 incidents are not evenly distributed. Reading Vie... SA Sarah Chew 26 Aug ASEAN Tech 8 min The Philippines' AI Hub Would Need 16 Per Cent Of Luzon's Grid Pax Silica at New Clark City is projected to require 3 gigawatts of electricity and 130 million litres of wate... SA Sarah Chew 22 Aug Finance 9 min In February the BSP Said 70% Was Not Doable. In July It Said It Was Likely The Philippine central bank's outlook on its 2028 digital payments target reversed in five months. The measure... DA Daniel Koh 5 Aug ASEAN Tech 5 min ASEAN Tech Summit Convenes in Manila as the Region's Digital Trade Pact Heads for a November Signing Organisers expected more than 4,000 delegates in Pasay City on 28–29 July, under the Philippine chairship. Neg... SA Sarah Chew 2 Aug ASEAN Tech 4 min The Philippines Is One of ASEAN's Fastest-Growing Digital Economies The Philippines is one of ASEAN's fastest-growing digital economies, driven by e-wallet adoption, BPO expansio... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 5 May