Q2 2022 IDC report names vivo in list of 5 smartphone brands
with highest market share
Manila, September 1 – vivo joins the list of top 5 smartphones in PH in Q2 2022 according to the recently released International Data Corporation (IDC) Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. Despite the industry’s overall decrease in QoQ smartphone shipment,, IDC reports that vivo recorded a 335.4 percent QoQ increase in its shipments.
This significant market comeback can be owed to vivo’s new entry models: the Y15s and Y15a. vivo’s reinforced market position in the ultra low-end segment has allowed the brand to reach a broader target audience. Moreover, partnerships with relevant brands and events such as the PUBG Turbo Cup Challenge, a mobile eSports championship, helped vivo penetrate the highly competitive mobile gaming market.
The recently launched additions to its continuously growing roster such as the co-engineered with ZEISS photography masters vivo X80 series and the power-packed turbo smartphones vivo T series, among others, have also contributed to this feat.
The next half of the year proves to be just as exciting for vivo as the brand is slated to launch a few more devices in its smartphone lineup. For more updates on vivo and its products, follow them through their official website and social media accounts: Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.
Globe At Home Prepaid WiFi promo offers free 50GB data
Manila, Philippines – The easing pandemic has seen sustained demand for connectivity while families are still scrimping on their budget.
With this in mind, Globe At Home is offering an all-new sulit and affordable Home Prepaid WiFi at P799, down from its regular price of P999. It now comes with free FamSURF299, which includes 50GB data, from 10GB before, to give families a pina-easy na connectivity.
“Globe At Home is always one with the Filipino family. We know that Internet connection is like water and electricity — it is essential for work, studies, and family bonding at home. So we want to give our customers more value for their money by throwing in more free data on top of the discounted prices of our home prepaid WiFi modems,” said Janis Racpan, Globe At Home Brand Management Head.
Apart from the promo price and free 50GB data, Globe At Home Prepaid WiFi LTE-Advanced is also discounted at P1,499, P500 less than the regular price. It offers faster speeds, providing reliable connection.
Globe At Home Prepaid WiFi is shareable, reloadable, and powered by ultra fast LTE. The family can experience a world of reliable streaming, gaming, and surfing wherever they may be in the country at rates that are easy on the pocket.
Users can also customize and adjust usage according to their budget, sparing them from worries over monthly dues.
Globe at Home Prepaid WiFi offers flexible promos for every home such as FamSURF299, with free 50GB data that includes 43GB shareable open access data and 7GB for watch and learn apps. Globe At Home Prepaid WiFi is available in Globe stores and retailers nationwide. Visit http://glbe.co/GAHPW to learn more.
BillEase, OpenFabric team up to accelerate merchant integration for Buy Now, Pay Later
Manila, Philippines — BillEase, the leading buy now, pay later (BNPL) and consumer finance app in the Philippines, today announced the launch of its new integration stack for large enterprise merchants and payment gateways looking for same-day integration of BNPL service, allowing any business to rapidly offer installment payment plans for their customers.
The new integration stack is a first-of-its-kind solution in the region and is powered by OpenFabric, a Singapore-based technology company which builds infrastructure for payments and financial services in Southeast Asia.
Through this solution, merchants can use BillEase’s agnostic software development kit (SDK) (powered by Open Fabric) to easily add BillEase on their platform. The new stack allows merchant technical teams to deploy a BNPL solution in just 1-3 days, versus the usual integration that takes months to complete, hence saving about 95% of developer time.
“We’re excited to launch this integration solution with OpenFabric to further smoothen the integration work for merchants looking for installment option at checkout,” said Georg Steiger, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of BillEase. “We continue to develop and launch new ways for merchants to easily launch point-of-sale financing without spending too much time and effort integrating our platform.”
“At OpenFabric, we help fintech companies to accelerate their merchant acceptance footprint at scale via simple and quick integrations,” Soma Ramasamy, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of OpenFabric said. “We’re excited to introduce this solution with BillEase and accelerate their merchant onboarding process by providing a quick and easily implementable solution for all kinds of merchants shopping cart and payment platforms”.
BillEase is an on-demand consumer credit app that provides personal loans, e-wallet top-ups, prepaid load, and gaming credits as well as buy now, pay later which allows customers to avail installment plans even without a debit or credit card.
Unlike other BNPL providers, BillEase offers a credit line that shoppers can use to transact online from as simple as food and grocery to big purchases like electronics and furniture. As easy as signing up for an account in less than 5 minutes, shoppers can split payments in affordable installments. Over 1,000+ online and offline retailers in the Philippines are using BillEase as an alternative payment method.
Businesses already offering the BNPL service see a significant increase in sales conversion between 15-25 percent and average order value (AOV) going up to five times compared to regular payment methods.
How smartphones and wearables can lead to better health
Boston, September 2, 2022 “• Wearables like smart watches or Fitbits do far more than count steps. In fact, AI-enabled devices can prevent a heart attack, diagnose melanoma, lessen the frequency of asthma attacks and treat insomnia without drugs, explains biotech expert Harry Glorikian.
“Personal devices with sensors that can track and even diagnose medical conditions have been around for more than a decade. Hardware and AI have advanced so rapidly, however, that devices and their connected sensors can now accomplish feats that were inconceivable just a few short years ago,” he wrote in a recent article.
In his new book, The Future You: How Artificial Intelligence (AI) Can Help You Get Healthier, Stress Less, and Live Longer, Glorikian helps readers understand how to use technology (that they very likely already have) to create personalized healthcare experiences.
“The scenarios I’m going to describe in this book don’t just apply to someone with a rare condition or who is seriously ill,” he wrote in his book’s introduction. “These are examples of how everyone can take advantage of AI and data analytics to stay healthy, get diagnosed more quickly, and sometimes, save on healthcare costs.”
In The Future You, readers will discover
- The ways in which technology and AI are already impacting healthcare and what new technologies are on the horizon
- The new healthcare business paradigm and how to navigate it
- How AI is helping doctors diagnose different cancers more precisely
- How everyday people have used smartphone and smartwatch technology to reach their health and fitness goals – and sometimes to survive a health crisis
- How to use and leverage AI data to improve health in monumental ways
- How to use available tech to simplify healthcare scenarios such as doctor visits, managing one’s own health records, coping with chronic disease, broadening awareness about a specific genetic profile and much more
- How scientists around the world used AI to develop COVID vaccines and how AI will help scientists predict future outbreaks more rapidly
Glorikian’s overarching message is clear: There’s quite literally nothing about health and wellness that won’t be utterly transformed by the power of AI. The Future You will show readers what’s coming – and what is already here.
“I want readers to feel inspired to see how they can use the technology they already have to make changes in their lives,” Glorikian said. “Maybe it’s as simple as using your smartphone to count your daily steps. Or maybe it’s downloading a meal-tracking app or doing a virtual reality workout. This book can be a roadmap to personalized health and wellness for everyone.”
China dominates GlobalData list of top 10 Asia-Pacific cities
by GDP in 2021
The aggregated revenue of the public enterprises headquartered in China among the top 10 Asia-Pacific (APAC) cities, in terms of GDP, amounted to $10.5 trillion (51.6 percent) in 2021, finds GlobalData, a leading data analytics and research company.
An analysis of GlobalData’s Company Profiles Database reveals that five cities from China–Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Chongqing–featured in the list of top 10, followed by Japan with two cities–Tokyo and Osaka.
GlobalData ranked the cities based on the total revenue generated by the public companies headquartered in each city in 2021. The sample size considered for the research was about 26,600 public companies in the region.
The companies headquartered in the top 10 cities accounted for 58.9 percent of the aggregate revenue of the total sample size. The combined revenue of these companies declined year-on-year marginally by 0.1 percent in 2021.
Beijing was the largest city in terms of aggregated revenue contributed, followed by Tokyo and Seoul. Though Hong Kong and Singapore witnessed a strong year-on-year growth rate of 17.6 percent and 15.3 percent of revenue, respectively, in terms of average revenue per company, they were the least among the top 10 APAC cities with $0.8 billion and $0.7 billion, respectively, in 2021.
Adneya Wadetiwar, Company Profiles Analyst at GlobalData, comments: “Due to COVID-19, various cities across APAC were majorly impacted, which resulted in the decline in revenue contributions from the public companies in 2021. However, China was the major revenue contributor in the APAC region with 51.6 percent share of the combined revenue of the listed companies.
“The country continued to enforce lockdown and various restrictions through 2021, which had a negative impact on the companies. However, the EU-China Comprehensive Investment Agreement and various other countermeasures rolled out by China set the economy into a recovery phase.”
Within China, Beijing was the major revenue contributor with 66.5 percent share, followed by Shanghai (15.8 percent), and Shenzhen (13.6 percent) in 2021. In terms of year-on-year revenue growth, Chongqing witnessed 33.9 percent growth, followed by Beijing (26.0 percent), and Guangzhou (24.0 percent). Beijing’s average revenue per company stood at $9.0 billion, followed by Shenzhen ($2.8 billion), and Shanghai ($2.6 billion).
According to GlobalData’s economic research, the top 10 cities were home to more than 7,800 companies (about 29.6 percent of the sample size). About 28.7 percent of these were based out of Tokyo, followed by Hong Kong (18.5 percent), Seoul (12.1 percent), Beijing (9.9 percent), Singapore (7.8 percent), Shanghai (8.1 percent), Shenzhen (6.5 percent), Osaka (4.7 percent), Guangzhou (2.8 percent), and Chongqing (0.9 percent).
