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GCash also revived its remittance service, now called GCash Padala, and made it available to non-app users through its 2,000 partner outlets nationwide. [10] [11] GCash's parent company, Mynt, made history as the Philippine's first double unicorn when it announced that it raised $300M in funding last November 2021 at a $2B valuation.
As of June 2022, Maya Wallet reached 50 million registered users, [10] making it the second most-used e-wallet service in the Philippines, only behind GCash. As of 2022, there were an estimated 58 million active e-wallet users in the Philippines, with this number expected to grow to 81 million by 2025. [citation needed]
GCash is owned by Mynt, a fintech startup launched in 2015 as a partnership between Globe, the Philippines’s largest telecommunications company, and Ant Group, an affiliate of Alibaba.
In late 2015, Disney launched a streaming service in the United Kingdom called DisneyLife to test the streaming market. [5] [6] It was later launched in the Philippines on May 25, 2018. [7] The UK version was replaced by Disney+ on March 24, 2020, [8] while discontinued in the Philippines on April 1 that year.
Disney did offer a third streaming option which allowed specific users outside of the Household to be added to the same plan. The pricing is fairly straightforward, with an extra $6.99 for Disney+ ...
Although Star would be available at no extra cost to Disney+ subscribers, the introduction of Star would coincide with a price increase. [11] Star was launched in Canada, United Kingdom, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore on February 23, 2021, while the service was launched in Hong Kong and Taiwan later in 2021. [ 12 ]
Globe offers commercial wireless services through its 2G, 3G, 3.5G HSPA+, 4G LTE, and LTE-A networks, with 5G currently being deployed in key areas in the Philippines. [8] Its 5G coverage is available in over 3,000 locations all over the country, and nearly 100% of the population in the National Capital Region, Davao City, and Cebu. [9] [10]
The price of the Hotstar Premium service was also increased with the launch. [23] On 2 May 2020, Star announced that it would distribute the service for free to Labour in India in Singapore through 21 July, to improve morale amid their impact from COVID-19. [24] In June 2020, Hotstar named Sunil Rayan, formerly of Google, as its new president. [25]