Technology

Global elevator and escalator leader KONE has launched its first KONE Academy in the Philippines, a dedicated training facility aimed at developing a highly skilled technical workforce to support the country’s urbanization and smart city development goals.

Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, exceeded expectations with its second-quarter earnings, driven by strong performance in search, cloud, and AI.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic—a health crisis that triggered widespread lockdowns to curb mobility and prevent the spread of the virus—internet access in the Philippines has surged nearly threefold by 2024. Nearly half of all Filipino households are now online, spending an average of almost five hours a day browsing the web.

Text scams in the Philippines plummeted by nearly 90 percent in the second quarter of 2025, falling to 65,035 from 648,239 in the previous quarter, according to data from Whoscall, a mobile security app developed by Gogolook. 

Smart Communications has opened pre-orders for the newly launched Samsung Galaxy Z7 Series—comprising the Galaxy Z Fold7, Z Flip7, and Z Flip7 FE—from 9 to 31 July, giving Filipino users early access to Samsung’s latest foldable innovations following their global debut at Galaxy Unpacked in Brooklyn, New York.