Senators scold PhilHealth chief for not flagging ‘unbelievable overpricing’

Tuesday, 4 August 2020, 19:36:13
MANILA, Philippines — Senators on Tuesday admonished Ricardo Morales, president and CEO of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth), for not immediately sounding the alarm over what they believed were “serious, unbelievable overpricing” in the agency’s procurement and his supposed failure to rid it of corruption. PhilHealth’s proposed procurement of 15 units of CISCO catalyst switches for P4.81 million — at P320,000 each — when the market price was just at P939,360 — or at P62,424 per unit — should have raised the “red flag” for Morales, senators said as they investigated fresh claims of the corruption in the agency. “Shouldn’t you have raised the red-flagged th… Keep on reading: Senators scold PhilHealth chief for not flagging ‘unbelievable overpricing’
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Microsoft Teams allows 20,000 participants in video meeting call: Know more

Tuesday, 4 August 2020, 09:22:00
The Teams will get SIP phone calling features in the first of 2021 with support from Cisco, Yealink, Polycom, and others
— Business Standard

AttackIQ Launches Preactive Security Exchange (PSE) to Improve Security Controls Effectiveness for Customers

Monday, 3 August 2020, 14:00:00
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #AttackIQ–AttackIQ launches its Preactive Security Exchange with inaugural partners including BlackBerry, Cisco, Microsoft, RSA and more.
— Business Wire

Global Software-Defined Perimeter Market Analysis 2020-2025 with Profiles of 14 Major Players Including Perimeter 81, ZScaler, Cisco Systems, and Okta – ResearchAndMarkets.com

Friday, 31 July 2020, 16:59:00
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “Global Software-Defined Perimeter Market: Growth, Trends and Forecast (2020-2025)” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The global software-defined perimeter market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5% over the forecast period 2020 to 2025. Cloud services are the primary drivers for the digital transformation with ubiquitous adoption in various industries. It has brought different security challenges for the business that is the crucial reason
— Business Wire

MeasureUp Grows 16% In First Half Of The Year Despite COVID-19 And Improves Forecasts For The Second Half

Friday, 31 July 2020, 11:00:00
SEVILLE, Spain, July 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — MeasureUp, a world leader in practice tests and assessments for ICT sector certifications and official provider of large multinationals such as Microsoft, Cisco or VMWare, achieved a 16% growth in the first half of 2020 despite the COVID-19…
— PR Newswire