After being put in the hot seat once again, controversial television host Willie Revillame announced last Friday that his program “Willing Willie” will be off the air temporarily. Revillame made the announcement after major sponsors started pulling their ads one by one.
The controversy started on the March 12 episode of “Willing Willie” where  six year [...]

Willie Revillame once again finds himself on the hot seat, this time for subjecting a 6-year old boy named Jan-Jan to what others said was public humiliation on his primetime TV5 show Willing Willie. A YouTube video of the kid dancing and gyrating his hips like a macho dancer has gone viral and has been [...]

After long-delayed listing of its share in local stock market, Yehey! Corp. still wants to pursue its plan of getting listed in the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE). Should they get listed, Yehey! would the third firm this to get listed by way of introduction this year.
Edmundo P. Bunyi, Jr., president and chief operating officer of [...]

The Globe Telecom’s mobile commerce subsidiary G-Xchange (GXI) request of using its parent’s sub-distribution as GCash outlets has been approved by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), which brings the number of GCash remittance outlets to over 18,000 making it the largest remittance network in the Philippines.

A Singaporean firm is planning to invest $7.5 million in a local gaming company. Straitwey, a Singapore-registered company who is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Japan Gaming Development Organization (JGDO) and is the investment entity used by JGDO to invest into projects within the gaming industry, is investing the $7.6 million in the primary [...]

Easycall Communicates Philippines Inc., the former paging leader in the Philippines, gets a boost from local technology firm Global E-Business Solutions Inc. as the company hiked its stake in Easycall to push it to pursue ventures in the wireless broadband Internet sector.
In their disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), Easycall said that its board [...]

Because of the continuing growth of technology-based industries in the Philippines, and the support that they get from the government, computing giant IBM plans to pour more investments in the country. IBM developer relations general manager James Corgel said the Philippines, particularly Quezon City, was one of the only 40 locations worldwide which was chosen [...]

Here’s another first from the Smart Communications, the country’s leading wireless services provider. The company launched recently the beta phase of its mobile email, the first daily flat-rate, unlimited push email solution in the country.

The Webby Awards is an annual award which was started in 1996. It is aimed to recognize and reward excellence on the internet in a number of categories including news and other websites, interactive advertising and online film and video.
The awardees are chosen by a 650-member academy, with members including one of the internet’s inventor, [...]

Last week, a public high school in Floridablanca, Pampanga, became the first school to receive Smart Communication’s high-speed wireless Internet connection.
In spite of the presence of different Internet shops in the town proper, the Paguiruan High School (PHS) is a “dead” spot. Thanks to Smart, it received the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax), a [...]

Chikka Holdings Ltd., the pioneer of free web-based PC-to-phone instant messaging system in the country will be acquired by the leading wireless provider Smart Communications, in a transaction that is expected to be completed next month.

A new and improved myDSL service which was designed for business use was launched last week by the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT). The new service was geared specifically for the small and medium enterprise (SME) segment.

Internet giant Google has come to the aid of Philippine business as it offers business stimulus package to local businesses. Google, together with STI Colleges has offered to build free websites for 200 micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). Aside from that, they will also be given P2,000 worth of free credits on Google AdWords.

The country’s leading provider of voice, data and video telecommunication services, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), has opened its fifth Innovation Laboratory at the Subic Bay Freeport Zone. The P20-million Innolab facility was built to help boost the information technology (IT) sector in the ecozone.
The four other Innolab sites of PLDT in the Philippines [...]

Local search engine Yehey! Corp. was established on June 10, 1998 and has an authorized capital stock of P1 billion, consisting of billion shares. Recently, it joined the growing list of companies who wants to get listed by way of introduction on the stock exchange.

OneWebDay started out as a volunteer activity in 2006 by Susan Crawford, a former member of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This year, the OneWebDay celebration has reached the Philippine shores. Businesses and individuals are putting a “bayanihan” twist to spreading Internet use as the country joins OneWebDay celebrations for the [...]

A Korean company invested an initial P100 million in the Philippines to set up its local subsidiary here, an online education company. Avalon English+ is one of the largest educational companies in South Korea, it recently sets up the Ubiquitous English Network of Avalon International Inc. (U-ENAI), an online education company teaching English with the [...]

Iloilo will be having its 4th Iloilo Information Technology (IT) Week on September 28 to 30. On that week, jobs and business prospects in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry will be highlighted.

Do you live a healthy lifestyle? If you do, you might just get a chance to win cool prizes and become a celebrity by joining the Nesvita online search for the “Beautiful 10.” Nesvita is looking for men and women who are beautiful inside and out – brimming with health from the inside that radiates [...]

The Easycall Communications Philippines, Inc. (ECPI) has been granted the license to install, operate and maintain a nationwide data communication network by the National Telecommunication Commission (NTC). The license however, comes with a condition.