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Mayor Garcia open to audit of traffic system

By Iris Hazel Mascardo | 11 days ago

Cebu City Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia may have welcomed the City Council’s proposal for a fraud audit on the contracts being entered into relative to the purchase of the Digital Traffic System, but he expressed...

Cebu News

Manpower shortage likely to push construction costs

By Ehda M. Dagooc | October 15, 2024 - 12:00am

European digital SaaS (Software as a Service) platform, PlanRadar, recognized that the ongoing shortage of construction workers could jeopardize the otherwise promising construction sector if not properly addre...

Freeman Cebu Business

Retailers cheer VAT on digital services

By Louella Desiderio | October 4, 2024 - 12:00am

The country’s group of retailers cheered the signing of the law imposing value-added tax on digital services as this...

Business

What makes digital creators successful?

By Mons Romulo | September 24, 2024 - 12:00am

Since its inception three years ago, NYMA — an acronym for “Now You Must Aspire” — Management has...

Newsmakers

Maya closes in on profitability

By Elijah Felice Rosales | August 19, 2024 - 12:00am

Digital bank Maya Bank Inc. is closing in on its target of becoming a profitable unit of PLDT Inc., achieving positive cash...

Business

Digital bank eyes end of 5-6 lending system

By Ehda M. Dagooc | August 13, 2024 - 12:00am

Tonik Digital Bank, a subsidiary of Singapore-based TonikFinancial, is committed to reducing the prevalence of the 5-6 lending...

Freeman Cebu Business

Hive Health secures P379 million funding to boost SME insurance

By Louise Maureen Simeon | July 30, 2024 - 12:00am

Digital insurer Hive Health has secured $6.5 million (P379.46 million) in fresh funds to boost healthcare access of small...

Business

Visa: 75% of remittances now sent via digital means

By Keisha Ta-Asan | July 25, 2024 - 12:00am

The Philippines achieved a digital remittances adoption rate of 75 percent this year, making it the third highest out of 20...

Business

United States, Philippines hold 1st cyber-digital security talks

By Pia Lee-Brago | July 20, 2024 - 12:00am

The United States and the Philippines held their first Cyber-Digital Policy Dialogue to advance an open, interoperable, reliable...

Headlines

Useless telecoms officials

By Boo Chanco | July 1, 2024 - 12:00am

Senator Win Gatchalian accused the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) of “sleeping on the job” after thousands of SIM cards were found in raids of POGO hubs in Pasay, Bamban and Porac. The raiding...

Business