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The autonomous mobility company is replacing its traditional Sunday-wide maintenance pause with vehicle-specific service schedules designed to keep ride-hailing and delivery fleets available throughout the week. AUSTIN, Texas — Carziqo is expanding its autonomous mobility operations in Austin with the introduction of its ER-SX autonomous ride-hailing series, as the company prepares for a broader operational shift toward 24/7 fleet availability from Monday through Sunday. The deployment represents more than the arrival of another vehicle series in Carziqo’s growing autonomous mobility network. It also coincides with a significant change in how the company intends to manage vehicle maintenance, fleet availability and day-to-day operations. Carziqo has traditionally used Sunday as a centralized fleet maintenance day, temporarily removing vehicles from normal operations so technical and operations teams could conduct inspections, servicing and other routine work. Under the new model, that ...

MANILA, Philippines — MyGlit, a recruitment operating system and job platform developed by Gratitude Jobs, has introduced AI Rerouting, a feature designed to help jobseekers be considered for better-fit vacancies when their original application does not fully match a specific role. The feature is relevant for high-volume hiring across BPO, IT, shared services, customer support, healthcare, sales, back-office and multilingual roles, where applicants often apply for positions that seem suitable at first glance but may not meet the exact requirements after screening. In many recruitment workflows, an applicant who does not fit one role may be rejected and forgotten, even if the same candidate could be suitable for another active vacancy. AI Rerouting is designed to reduce this gap by helping recruiters review whether a candidate may be a better match elsewhere. Reducing candidate waste in high-volume recruitment Across the Philippines, hiring teams often manage multiple vacancies across d...

  Through her practice at D’Sculpt Face & Body Center in Cebu City, Dr. Donna is encouraging patients to approach cosmetic surgery as a medical process rather than a single appointment. Her patient-education efforts focus on consultation before procedure selection, appropriate surgical timing, pre-operative preparation, realistic recovery expectations, and continued post-operative care. For Dr. Donna Borres Eramis, founder of D’Sculpt Face & Body Center, cosmetic surgery should begin with understanding the process—not simply choosing a procedure. As cosmetic surgery information becomes increasingly accessible online, patients can arrive at consultations already familiar with procedure names, before-and-after photos, and aesthetic trends. But Dr. Donna emphasizes that knowing about a procedure is different from knowing whether it is appropriate for an individual patient. The Consultation Comes First A consultation allows the surgeon to assess a patient’s goals, anatomy, medi...

   New product brings branch-level intelligence to the QSR, retail, hospitality, and healthcare industries across the Philippines and Southeast Asia TAGUIG, Philippines — September 4, 2026 — Sprout Solutions has launched Frontliner, an AI-powered operations platform that gives multi-location businesses in retail, F&B, hospitality, and healthcare real-time visibility into what's happening across every branch, replacing the paper checklists, spreadsheets, and group chats frontline teams rely on today. Frontliner is built for businesses where the real work happens in a branch, not a boardroom. Frontliner is Sprout's first product outside its core HR and payroll suite. The problem: a branch running on five disconnected tools Frontliner targets a specific problem: companies that have digitized payroll, compliance, and HR can still find themselves running branch operations on WhatsApp or Viber group chats, paper checklists, and Excel files. A store manager at a QSR chain with 20...

  MANILA, Philippines  — Filipinos in Spain will gain stronger protection and easier access to social security benefits as the Philippines and Spain move to strengthen their longstanding partnership and restore SSS services in Madrid. Philippine Ambassador to Spain Philippe J. Lhuillier recently met with Social Security System (SSS) President and Chief Executive Officer Robert Joseph M. De Claro to discuss measures to improve social security services for Filipinos in Spain. The meeting comes ahead of the planned reopening of the SSS Representative Office at the Philippine Embassy in Madrid in September. Ambassador Lhuillier welcomed progress toward concluding and signing the Administrative Agreement implementing the Convention on Social Security between the Philippines and Spain. The framework will establish clearer procedures for totalizing insurance periods, ensuring equal treatment, exporting benefits, and avoiding double social security contributions. “Strengthening our so...

  For the first time, LA TRỊNH atelier is pleased to announce the presentation of its new fashion collection, “Gods Within Her,” in Milan, Italy. Featuring 30 designs exploring femininity and the power of contemporary womanhood, the collection brings together traditional craftsmanship and environmentally conscious materials. Inspiration & Artistic Direction “Gods Within Her” unfolds as a captivating chapter in the awakening of the inner goddess, who walks proudly through ancient sanctuaries and mysterious mythical mountains stretching from East to West. This journey is more than a passage across geographical landscapes; it is a sequence of stories that reaches into the depths of different cultures. The powerful interplay of Eastern and Western symbolism will be brought to life on the fashion stage in Milan, Italy, and Europe. “Gods Within Her” also explores the relationship between contemporary mythology and the enduring values of nature and humanity — a return to original valu...