Marvie Basilan

Google and other tech companies are being pressured by a U.S. senator and the European Union as the Israel-Hamas war intensifies and news about the conflict – both accurate and misleading – proliferate the internet and social media.

China accused a Canadian aircraft of illegally intruding into its territorial airspace a day after Ottawa called out Beijing for the "dangerous and reckless" interception of its military plane over the East China Sea on Monday.

The exact number of remaining employees at Expedia is unknown, but its LinkedIn page shows the company has more than 10,001 workers and over 21,800 of them are on the recruitment platform.

Waymo has had two earlier rounds of workforce cuts, including in January, when its parent company Alphabet announced it was laying off around 12,000 employees.

Some of the developing world's top leaders are in Beijing for the two-day Belt and Road Forum where Xi Jinping is expected to pitch a new path ahead for the decade-old initiative that raised debt concerns over the past years.

Epic Games, which acquired the Oakland, California-based company just a year ago, laid off roughly half of the staff after finalizing its sale to Songtradr on Monday, reports said. An X user said only "three people are left" at the company's music blog Bandcamp Daily.

Stack Overflow has seen a decline in traffic in the past one and a half years, and though the company has taken "many steps" to cut costs this year, these measures haven't been enough.

The shadowing of the Philippine navy ship came on the same day the country concluded its joint Exercise Sama-Sama (Together) 2023 with military personnel from the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Canada, and Australia.

Adda247 secured $35 million last year from Google and WestBridge, but a funding winter this year appears to have caught up with the edtech startup.

Philippine rice prices have started going back to the same levels before the Marcos administration implemented a price ceiling to keep domestic prices from rising further, just a week after the cap was lifted.

EHang said it has become the world's first air taxi company to obtain airworthiness certification to fly passenger-carrying autonomous electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft

Great Britain and the Philippines are celebrating 77 years of diplomatic relations this year, and the UK's show of support comes as the smaller Southeast Asian nation resists Beijing's pressure in a disputed shoal at the Spratly Islands.

Flexport founder Ryan Petersen said the supply chain management company will begin the layoffs process Friday as Flexport seeks to "get back to profitability without raising prices or placing our fortress balance sheet at risk.

MariaDB is implementing another round of layoffs following a previous round of job cuts in April. The database company has been facing financial challenges and actively seeking funding in recent months.

Netflix is cutting an unknown number of staffers at its animation arm and is shutting down two films in pre-production following hundreds of job cuts at the streaming giant last year.

ASEAN nations have signed an agreement to enhance customs clearance for export and import transactions among members, marking another step towards strengthening relations within the group.

Malaysia is working on a code of ethics for AI that will be completed by 2024 as ASEAN members move toward regulating the fast-evolving technology.

China may be pushing the Philippines to respond first as it continues to make dangerous moves in the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, which it says is part of its territorial waters.

The Washington Post has reportedly been struggling with its finances in the past three years and is said to be on track to lose around $100 million this year.

Tensions over the disputed Scarborough Shoal are yet to de-escalate, but China and the Philippines are at it once again with a word war over the long-disputed Spratly Islands.

Blue Origin has reportedly eliminated more than three dozen employees in its technology unit about a month after the aerospace firm cut human resources jobs.

Chinese President Xi Jinping had an amicable meeting with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer following months of escalated tensions between the world's largest economies.

Both the U.S. and China are Thailand's major trading partners. But the country's deputy PM said ASEAN, of which Thailand is a member, will not be forced to take sides as the world's largest economies engage in a power play.

Juniper Networks said it was looking to "reallocate resources" to ensure that the company's strategic priorities are efficiently managed.

DreamWorks Animation has laid off dozens of staff at four departments amid the company's preparations for the release of the third "Trolls" movie.

Telltale Games confirmed it has let go of some of its team members due to "current market conditions." It said all projects in development "are still in production."

Afghanistan's foreign minister told his Chinese counterpart Thursday that any threats against China would be taken seriously amid reports of terror attacks targeting Chinese nationals in the country.

A Philippine Coast Guard official said the tragic incident that cost the lives of three Philippine fishermen near Scarborough Shoal earlier this week was not related to territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

Qualtrics is cutting its staff by the hundreds amid an organizational complexity driven by rapid hiring in the past years. The software company was acquired by Silver Lake in June.