Team Happenings

  2023 Grand Chamber Awards open for nominations The highly anticipated Grand Chamber Awards (GCA), an annual event hosted by the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI), is set to take center stage with its awarding night scheduled on November 29, 2023 at Marco Polo Plaza, Nivel Hills, Cebu City. The GCA is an annual activity of the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry to recognize and honor exemplary business leaders, individuals and institutions who contributed to the economic growth and development of the Cebu and its people. The 2023 GCA will present six highly coveted awards, including the Entrepreneur of the Year Award, which recognizes leaders who have nurtured and sustained world-class businesses for at least a decade. The Socially Responsible Entrepreneur Award pays tribute to those who have made societal benefits and sustainability fundamental aspects of their business practices. Additionally, the Young Entrepreneur of the Year recognizes the business leaders who a...

  𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬™ 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐓-𝐁𝐏𝐌 Teleperformance (TP) in the Philippines, a multi-awarded global digital business service company, made it to the top of the country’s first industry list of the Philippines Best Workplaces™ in information technology and business process management (IT-BPM). The high-profile list, curated by the Information Technology and Business Process Association of the Philippines (IBPAP) and Great Place to Work®, recognizes people-first companies catering to and excelling in different sub-sectors, such as, but not limited to, business process outsourcing (BPO) and information technology (IT) & software development. The company must also be certified as a Great Place to Work® to be eligible for the recognition. Out of the thirty exceptional employers in the list, Teleperformance placed fourth. The company’s nomination and subsequent victory in the IT-BPM ca...

  Globe welcomes new verification guidelines from NTC to improve SIM registration Renews call for consultations with gov’t on improvements in National ID rollout, law enforcement Mobile leader Globe welcomed the release of new guidelines by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to improve the ID verification in the SIM registration process. As customer protection remains its top priority, Globe asserts that the effective implementation of the SIM Registration Act requires close collaboration and consultation among key industry stakeholders, regulators and law enforcement agencies. At the recent Senate hearing, a concern was raised with regard to the acceptance of an animal photo in lieu of a real person's ID. This placed the quality of verification in the SIM registration process into question. Even as Globe has fully complied with the requirements of the SIM Registration Act resulting in the registration of 54M SIMs, there remain areas of improvement to help avert ...

𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐄: 𝐁𝐈𝐎𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐑 𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐀? 𝐋𝐄𝐓 𝐅𝐀𝐑𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐃𝐄𝐂𝐈𝐃𝐄! Senator Imee Marcos has urged the Department of Agriculture (DA) to review a recent memorandum order that will limit the type of fertilizer that rice farmers can use. Signed on April 27, Memorandum Order 32 (MO 32) promotes the distribution of yet unnamed biofertilizers to rice farmers nationwide, in place of inorganic urea. Farmers' groups reaching out to Marcos's office expressed fears that the government project could put their crop yields and potential income at risk. "Biofertilizers benefit soil ecosystems but can they duplicate past levels of rice production?" the senator asked. Marcos noted that the El Niño phenomenon's near certainty this year already poses a threat to rice production, with water allocated for irrigation from Angat Dam scheduled to be cut. "Biofertilizers still need to be tested on a sufficient scale to prove that rice production costs can be lower...

𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐥𝐚, 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬, 𝟏𝟏 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 - Leading fiber broadband provider Converge ICT Solutions Inc. has reported a double-digit consolidated revenue growth of 11.5% to P8.6 billion from January to March this year compared to the same period last year, driven by its industry-leading subscriber acquisition and thriving enterprise business. Converge continued to expand its residential subscriber base with net additions reaching 43,000, with postpaid subscribers accounting for 67% and prepaid fiber subscribers consisting of the remaining 33% of the net subscriber additions. As of Q1 2023, Converge has 1.9 million postpaid and nearly 30,000 prepaid fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) subscribers. CNVRG 1Q 2023 Briefing Meanwhile, the company's enterprise revenues reached its highest growth rate since 2020, surging 32.4% year-on-year to P1.2 billion in the first quarter of the year on the back of robust overall growth across all subsegments - small and medium enterp...