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14 articlesWise now lets Filipinos hold dollars and pay local stores by QR Ph
The money app hooked itself into InstaPay, PESONet and QR Ph. Business accounts can now send up to P500,000 at a time.
Read →August 13, 2026There is now one free website listing 303 Filipino startups and 108 investors
Gobi Partners, StartupHunt and BetterGov.PH put the Philippine startup scene on a single public page. Browsing is free, listing is free, and there is a jobs board attached.
Read →August 12, 2026Visa and USSC let small businesses take card payments with just a phone
U Accept works on any phone with a tap chip, so there is no card terminal to buy. Visa says 83 percent of Filipino small business owners who started accepting cards reported higher sales.
Read →August 11, 2026Soundcore's new P19,995 speaker turns any streamed song into videoke
The Rave 3S uses AI to pull the singer out of a track playing from your streaming app, so you can sing over it. It comes with two wireless mics.
Read →August 11, 2026Precious Pages' reading app is now CAT-HA, with a shelf of free Filipino novels
The publisher relaunched its old iReader app under a new name and added a Free to Read collection. It is on Google Play, the App Store and Huawei AppGallery.
Read →August 4, 2026Apple Pay is live in the Philippines. Four banks work so far.
iPhone and Apple Watch owners here can now tap to pay in stores. UnionBank, GoTyme, Metrobank and Chinabank are the banks reported working, and Apple has not published the official list yet.
Read →August 1, 2026eGovPH now rebuilds your resume from a photo and matches you to jobs
The DICT switched on eTrabaho inside the eGovPH app on July 30. You photograph your old resume, the AI turns it into a cleaner one, and the app points you to job openings.
Read →July 28, 2026A Filipino engineer built a live LRT and MRT tracker. Android version lands in August.
TrainSight shows where trains are on LRT-1, LRT-2 and MRT-3, when they should arrive, and how packed they are. RJ Crusem, 28, built it because commuters were tired of guessing.
Read →July 28, 2026Smart's cloud gaming puts 1,000 console games on your phone for 145 pesos a week
No console, no download. Smart and TNT subscribers can stream more than 1,000 console titles inside a phone browser, billed weekly to prepaid load.
Read →July 28, 2026A Filipino legal AI scored 75.8% on Bar questions. GPT-4o scored 24.2%.
Anycase.ai ran 120 questions from the 2024 Philippine Bar past three systems. The general chatbot cited cases that do not exist in about a third of its answers. The local one cited none.
Read →July 25, 2026Globe sells ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini in one app from 49 pesos
Globe is bundling five AI chatbots into a single sachet-priced app. What nobody has said yet is how much you actually get for the 49 pesos.
Read →July 24, 2026Globe's AI Fiesta bundles ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini from 49 pesos
One Globe plan now gives you five of the biggest AI chatbots in a single app, and you can start for the price of a snack.
Read →July 24, 2026Formbricks: the open-source survey tool that keeps your data yours
A self-hosted alternative to Typeform and Qualtrics that puts every response on infrastructure you control.
Read →March 20, 2026GCash put an AI money coach inside the app 90 million Filipinos already use
Pera Coach is the country's first AI financial coach built into an e-wallet. It talks to you in Taglish about your budget, and it is free.
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