Philippines

According to the PSA, bad weather was a primary factor causing millions of employed Filipinos to work fewer hours, directly impacting worker take-home pay and creating administrative complexity for employers managing variable shifts, overtime, and statutory reporting.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has lauded Mitsubishi Corp.'s investment of $700 million in energy firm Ayala Corp as among the largest foreign equity investments in the Philippines in recent years.

Mynt has priced its proposed GCash IPO at PHP 6.60 per share, setting a PHP 53 billion base offer that could rise to PHP 60.9 billion.

The program is available to eligible users of SkyroCredit, Skyro's reusable digital credit line within the Skyro app, the company said in a statement on Wednesday.

Thinking Machines Data Science VP Niek van Veen discusses enterprise AI evaluation, legal oversight, workflow redesign, employee adoption and boundaries for autonomous agents.

PLDT says its internally developed AI agents are reducing manual work across enterprise sales, knowledge retrieval and risk management.

Asialink Group Deputy CEO Patricia Poco-Palacios discusses MSME underwriting, thin-file borrowers, portfolio quality, financial literacy and AI-assisted lending.

Green GSM has launched an all-electric taxi service across Cagayan de Oro and nearby Northern Mindanao areas, including airport transfers.

Nemetschek is expanding its Southeast Asia push through 10 partnerships and engagements across the Philippines and Vietnam, including industry projects and education initiatives.

YCO Cloud and Aolani plan to deploy more than 10,000 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs in the Philippines, with an initial launch targeted for early 2027.