Philippines tech news
January 2023 round-up
Tech news headlines from the Philippines in January of 2023 covered items and subjects including startups selected for the 500 Global program, BNPL developments in the country, Nokia’s 5G moves in the Philippines, and more.
And for our other editions, spanning daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly updates on Asia’s technology spaces, here’s an outline.
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- Philippines: Locad raises $11M Series A with warehousing and delivery services to purchases made via Lazada, Shopee, Tiktok and others
- Philippines: Salmon fintech launches point-of-sale lending service allowing underbanked and unbanked customers to defer payments and instead pay in monthly instalments
- Philippines: Mayani raises $1.7M with fisheries management tech, sourcing from over 139K smallhold farmers and data-matching to shorten route-to- market with less middlemen
- Philippines: BillEase consumer finance app partners China’s Alipay+ for ‘buy now, pay later’ options in online shopping
- Philippines: An intro to the 10 startups that recently completed the 917Ventures Accelerator Program by 500 Global
- Philippines: Now Telecom selects Nokia’s R&D arm Bell Labs to design 5G Standalone network, piloting in Manila
IMF: Towards Central Bank Digital Currencies in Asia and the Pacific
More of Asia’s tech news headlines
The monthly collections listed by country, above, are drawn from our daily Asia tech news updates, which go out on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and via mobile app.
We also deliver weekly updates in newsletter formats, via LinkedIn and Substack; and each of those also provides our tech newsletters in web format, for reading online.
Beyond these, we also produce quarterly collections, gathering a jurisdiction’s technology news into 3-monthly digests each year.
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