Author: Team Orange

The Board of Trustees of Insular Life (InLife) has elected InLife’s Senior Executive Vice President Noemi G. Azura to the Board, to replace Trustee Gil B. Genio who resigned recently. Azura is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Insular Health Care (IHC), the HMO subsidiary of InLife, and concurrently InLife’s Corporate Solutions and Digital Insurance Head. Under Azura’s leadership, IHC attained impressive business results, hitting its 5-year cumulative net income target within three years. In 2021, it breached the P1 B mark in terms of membership fees which was 37% more than the previous year’s results.

PLDT Inc. (PLDT) and its wireless arm Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) recently concluded the second run of their annual Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) Week, which intends to fortify and protect the PLDT and Smart workforce, to enable the companies to elevate the quality of customer experience. The week-long initiative also fosters the companies’ commitment to become the region’s Environmental, Social, and Governance or ESG-leading telco. “This year’s EHS Week aims to create sustained awareness around a safer and healthier work environment – one that leads to higher productivity and helps us do business responsibly for the benefit of the…

Meet the best of the best. Get to know the Top Gun: Maverick crew with the reveal of their individual character posters. See them on the biggest screen possible on Wednesday, May 25 in theaters and IMAX across the Philippines. About Top Gun: Maverick After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission…

A fortnight after the local theatrical release of Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the film is now reported to be the Highest Grossing Film in the Philippines in 2022. Fans of the Marvel franchise expressed their warm reception of the movie as it created new records in the Philippines: the 9th highest opening film of all time for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, 10th in the highest opening of all time for a Disney film, and placed 13th in terms of the highest opening weekend of all time in the local box office. Doctor Strange in the…

With a new way to search designed around Airbnb Categories, the innovative Split Stays feature, and AirCover for guests, this launch represents the biggest change to Airbnb in a decade. The launch comes on the back of the Philippines’ international borders reopening, as travel interest amongst international and domestic guests continue to surge Guests on Airbnb are exploring more destinations than ever before – more than 60 new towns and cities in the Philippines have received their very first Airbnb booking since the pandemic Last year, Airbnb released 150 upgrades to improve every aspect of the Airbnb service. Today, Airbnb…

The world’s best low-cost airline welcomes Q2 with April seat bookings hitting a staggering 553% growth versus same period last year Growth is attributed to mobility amid the election season further spurred by the airline’s various promos encouraging the electorate to exercise their right to vote. AirAsia Philippines records a 553% growth in total guests flown this April 2022 versus the same month last year, an indicator of the airline’s strong momentum toward recovery. The world’s best low-cost airline enters mid-2Q2022 with a high 306% growth in total guests flown from January to April versus the same period of 2021.

“I-GCash mo na ‘yan!” Two years ago, GCash was hardly known by Filipino consumers. Now, the e-wallet platform has become so embedded in people’s everyday lives it has become a verb, a payment category, even a word to describe the letter G. GCash President and CEO Martha Sazon shared this fun fact at the 2022 Rotary District Conference where she talked about the big role GCash plays in the rise of the digital economy. Sazon was joined by the CEOs of BPI, Angkas, and Transportify.

Sheraton Manila Bay unveils the first &More by Sheraton outlet in the Philippines with a grand launch cocktail event on April 28, 2022 at the hotel’s newly renovated main lobby. The event was attended by key influencers, media partners, and guests who were served with sumptuous buffet of &More signature cuisine and an overflowing sample of the outlet’s artisan coffees and cocktail concoctions savored amid the soothing backdrop of live acoustic performances of Sonny and Sunshine. The event was opened with an inviting and equally moving welcoming remarks from the hotel’s Director of Sales and Marketing, Juvy Agudon who recalled…

MediaTek today unveiled its new Genio platform for AIoT devices and introduced the first chip in the Genio family, the Genio 1200 designed for premium AIoT products. MediaTek Genio is a complete platform stack for the AIoT with powerful and ultra- efficient chipsets, open platform software development kits (SDKs) and a developer portal with comprehensive resources and tools. This all-in-one platform makes it easy for brands to develop innovative consumer, enterprise and industrial smart applications at the premium, mid-range and entry levels, and bring these devices to market faster. With MediaTek Genio, customers have access to all the hardware, software…

vivo, one of the leading smartphone brands in the country, is calling the best of Gen Z gamers and the esports audiences as it kicks off the very first PUBG Turbo Cup Challenge Tournament. On July 9, 2022, the most vicious players from Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines will gather together and bring their A-game to battle it out in this one big and electrifying gaming tournament. In collaboration with Mineski Global, Southeast Asia’s premier esports organizer, the PUBG Turbo Cup Challenge Tournament is set out to be an experience that gamers would never forget.

The final recital of Bubog at Karga: Acting Workshop on the Chubbuck Technique for Background Actors by the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) successfully showcased sterling performances in an event conducted in-person last May 5, 2022 at the Cinematheque Center Manila. The acting showcase was the culminating activity for the first batch of background actors who underwent a 14-week intensive online acting training and onsite rehearsals with the guidance of renowned acting coach, Director Rahyan Carlos. There were 25 selected talents who were mentored on the Chubbuck Technique, a widely-used acting technique created and popularized by Hollywood acting…