News Articles on {?keyword?} | ABS-CBN News

Australia passes landmark law requiring tech firms to pay for news

Reuters
Updated as of Feb 25 12:36 PM

Australia's parliament passed landmark legislation Thursday requiring global digital giants to pay for local news content, in a move closely watched around the world.   Read more »

Facebook to restore Australia news pages after deal on media law

Andrew Beatty, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 23 02:28 PM

Facebook said Tuesday it would lift a contentious ban on Australian news pages after the government agreed to amend a world-first law requiring tech giants to pay media companies. Read more »

BPOs seen hiring up to 100,000 this year; work-from-home also here to stay

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 15 04:17 PM

The business process outsourcing industry will hire between 80,000 to 100,000 employees this year, sustaining the sector's yearly recruitment numbers, an industry group said on Monday.  Read more »

Senior high students, mauuna sakaling ibalik ang face-to-face classes

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 09 03:21 PM

Posibleng mauna ang mga senior high school student na makapag-face-to-face classes sakaling payagan na ito ulit ng gobyerno, sabi ngayong Martes ng Department of Education. Read more »

PH tech startup that uses AI to cut shipping paperwork eyeing expansion

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 08 03:59 PM

A tech startup based in the Philippines is wielding AI to speed up the processing of shipping documents and promises to provide up to 80 percent savings for freight forwarders over manual processing of logistics paperwork. Read more »

Returning OFWs urged to take up TESDA's online agri courses

Jaehwa Bernardo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 03 01:43 PM

TESDA Director General Isidro Lapeña said Wednesday that former OFWs can learn to produce food for their families or become "agripreneurs" by enrolling in the agency's agriculture-related courses, one of the sectors with fewer enrollees under the agency's online training program. Read more »

Singapore faces talent crunch as tech giants scale up

Chen Lin and Aradhana Aravindan, Reuters
Posted at Jan 27 03:26 PM

Singapore is aiming to become a regional tech hub but faces a severe talent crunch as more firms move in, interviews with more than a dozen recruiters, companies and workers show. Read more »

Trump throttled press freedom, journalists say

Reuters
Posted at Jan 13 11:02 PM

CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Maria Ressa, who heads a Philippine news website known for its scrutiny of President Rodrigo Duterte, and Sonny Swe, CEO of Frontier Myanmar, told a Reuters Next panel that press freedom had deteriorated sharply. Read more »

Facebook has no plans to lift Trump ban, Sandberg says

Katie Paul and Elizabeth Culliford, Reuters
Updated as of Jan 12 07:29 AM

Facebook Inc's operations chief Sheryl Sandberg said on Monday the world's largest social network had no plans to lift its block on the accounts of U.S. President Donald Trump, as the company clamped down on a phrase that has become a rallying cry for the president's supporters.   Read more »

White House discusses Trump address on Big Tech ban

Nandita Bose, Reuters
Posted at Jan 12 01:37 AM

WASHINGTON - The White House is discussing the idea of having President Donald Trump make remarks on camera on Monday about Big Tech platforms that took steps in recent days to limit his social media reach, according to a source familiar with the matter. Read more »

Electronics exporters see 7 pct growth with demand for 'new normal' tech

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 11 04:02 PM

SEIPI said demand for gadgets for distance learning and telecommuting, as well as e-vehicles and medical electronics, will lead the sector to grow 7 percent this year.  Read more »

Forecast ni Master Hanz: Mga ‘tech’ business suwerte, mga kalamidad asahan sa 2021

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 03 11:51 PM

Forecast ni Master Hanz: Mga ‘tech’ business suwerte, mga kalamidad asahan sa 2021. Read more »

TESDA opens online course on waste management

Jaehwa Bernardo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 29 07:17 PM

The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority said Tuesday it launched an online course on waste management to educate more Filipinos on the proper disposal and segregation of garbage. Read more »

REVIEW: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 5G, the phablet reinvented and vastly improved

Art Fuentes, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 23 07:31 AM

Folding phones with flexible screens are niche products right now, but they may move into the mainstream of mobile devices very soon. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 is showing just how useful this new technology can be.  Read more »

Texas, nine U.S. states accuse Google of working with Facebook to break antitrust law

Diane Bartz and Paresh Dave, Reuters
Posted at Dec 17 09:46 AM

Texas and nine other states sued Google on Wednesday, accusing it of working with Facebook Inc in an unlawful manner that violated antitrust law to boost its already-dominant online advertising business.   Read more »

Twitter to shut down streaming app Periscope

Reuters
Posted at Dec 16 10:07 AM

Twitter Inc on Wednesday said it would shut down live-streaming app Periscope, which it bought in 2015, due to declining usage over the past couple of years and high supporting costs. Read more »

More skills trainings, competency assessments allowed in GCQ areas

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 14 03:33 PM

The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority and Department of Trade and Industry said Monday they allowed more in-person skills training and assessments to be conducted in areas under general community quarantine. Read more »

Airbnb tops $100 billion on first day of trading, reviving talk of a bubble

Erin Griffith, The New York Times
Posted at Dec 11 10:40 AM

The home-rental company’s blockbuster IPO followed that of the delivery company DoorDash. Investors piled into both.   Read more »

Facebook antitrust suits seek to divest Instagram, WhatsApp

Rob Lever, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 10 07:09 AM

US federal and state antitrust enforcers filed suit against Facebook on Wednesday claiming the social media giant abused its dominant position with its acquisitions of messaging services Instagram and WhatsApp. Read more »

Amazon, Apple are powering a shift away from Intel’s chips

Don Clark, The New York Times
Posted at Dec 02 03:01 PM

Instead, the companies are increasingly leaning on homegrown chips that were designed using technology that Arm, a British company, licenses for smartphones and other consumer products. Read more »