Communications & Technology

Tech Data, a TD SYNNEX company and leading global IT solutions distributor, has announced the expansion of its IBM distribution network. The initiative covers 20 new markets across Asia Pacific, Europe, and Latin America. In the Asia Pacific region, the expansion adds six new markets – Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia (operating under the Tech Data brand there), Indonesia, Cambodia, and the Philippines. This builds on the company’s existing IBM operations in Australia, India, Singapore, and Vietnam, bringing the total number of APJ markets supported to ten.

Global cybersecurity leader Fortinet has announced the acquisition of Virtue AI, a developer of solutions designed to protect artificial intelligence systems, automate security validation, and safeguard autonomous AI operations.

As digital banking, e-wallets, and embedded finance transform financial access across the Philippines, Globe Business is equipping banks and financial firms with advanced, proactive security tools to meet requirements under the newly enacted Anti-Financial Account Scamming Act (AFASA), or Republic Act No. 12010.

The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) will formally adopt the Scam Watch Pilipinas Anti-Scam Quad Model as the country’s official national strategy for anti-scam education and public awareness, establishing a unified framework to guide public action and cross-sector collaboration in preventing fraud.

Globe Telecom is supporting national and local government efforts to create a single, unified policy for underground conduit infrastructure, aiming to curb rampant fiber cable theft that frequently disrupts internet and mobile services across the country.