Let’s face it: electronics and robotics are no longer becoming exclusive to a privileged, trained few.

Nowadays, electronics are not only being taught at universities and colleges, but also in elementary and secondary schools. And the Philippines has seen its share of kids who had proved themselves equal in the field of electronics and robotics, both here and abroad.

Yes, learning the basics of electronics can be fun – but at times, it can be excruciatingly hard. It’s what Joshua de la…

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Electronic commerce or "e-commerce" may be new for most Filipinos, but it's already making inroads in the Philippines' business climate in the past few years.

With one of the fastest-growing online presence worldwide (pegged at 556% during the last five years), the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has projected a 25% share of e-commerce in the Philippines' gross domestic product (GDP) by 2020.

As Zalora and Lazada continue to chip in on the country's e-commerce boom, they are now facing a challenge: providing online merchants and customers alike with…

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Product rewards for loyal customers are just one of the incentives establishments offer to attract buyers. Loyalty cards, discount coupons, anything that, in theory, would make life a little easier for their costumers – who couldn’t resist that?

However, there’s one drawback in providing rewards: most of the time, rewards holders don’t even know how to utilize their rewards, or miss out deals after forgetting to bring their reward cards, or simply fail to use their rewards.

“How many times have we missed out on a deal or privilege due us simply because we did not bring our privilege cards…

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The business processing outsourcing (BPO) industry is currently one of the Philippines’ most lucrative and most promising business sectors. Yet several factors still affect the growth of the Philippines’ BPO sector, foremost among them the lack of infrastructure and slow Internet connectivity.

However, for IT experts Mark Anthony Lapuz and Vince Loremia, the whole current BPO system in the country is inefficient. The primary reason: foreign companies currently operating in the Philippines are based on large, long-term contracts with huge brick-and-mortar companies.

Their solution? Simple: why not create…

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