Some Japanese stores are using robots from the startup Telexistence to restock shelves, piloted remotely by Filipino workers whose actions train AI models
Filipino tele-operators remotely control Japan's convenience store robots and train AI, benefiting from an uptick in automation-related jobs. Bluesky: @benschleuss , @goldstein , @atherton , @marypcbu...
The Philippines' new undersea internet cable network is expected to bring jobs to remote islands, boosting the country's BPO sector, which employed 1.7M in 2023
Yuichi Shiga / Nikkei Asia : X: @nikkeiasia X: @nikkeiasia : Philippines' undersea cable network to boost call center industry Major cities like Manila and Cebu already have relatively stable interne...
The Philippines' new undersea internet cable network is expected to bring jobs to remote islands, boosting the country's BPO sector, which employed 1.7M in 2023
Project expected to bring stable internet and new jobs to more remote islands — InfiniVAN holds a cable pulling ceremony on the island of Boracay in November 2022. X: @nikkeiasia X: @nikkeiasia : Ph...
Manila-based GrowSari, which helps Filipino MSMEs to digitize, raises an additional $77.5M to its Series C, bringing the round's total to around $110M
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Manila-based GrowSari, which helps Filipino MSMEs to digitize, offer bill payments, launch e-commerce stores, and more, raises $45M from KKR
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A look at various apps aimed at overseas domestic workers, which can help them find jobs, facilitate money transfers, and report labor abuse
a real risk for many of these already quite vulnerable workers. Anup Kaphle / @anupkaphle : There are people like Myrna Padilla, once a domestic worker herself, trying to find tech solutions to interv...
Sources: Uber shuts down its customer support office in LA, laying off ~80 employees and outsourcing their jobs to a support office in Manila
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Twitter employees explain the platform's more relaxed approach to policing content, while keeping a 1,500-strong enforcement team vs. Facebook's 15,000
VICE : Tweets: @josephfcox , @jess_miers , @davidsven , @agoldmund , @davezatz , @maxsparber , @katiedrumm , @devonzuegel , @josephfcox , @josephfcox , and @vice Tweets: Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : Tw...
Current and former moderators in Manila describe how tech companies like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter outsource the trauma that comes with content moderation
Companies such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter have tasked a workforce of contractors with reviewing suicides and massacres …
A look at the human cost of Facebook's rise in the Philippines: truth matters less, propaganda is ubiquitous, lives are wrecked, and some have died as a result
In August 2016, a handful of crude images began circulating widely throughout Facebook's Filipino community … Tweets: @daveyalba , @dcurtis , @histoftech , @kevinroose , @cwarzel , @buzzfeednews , @si...