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Manila, Philippines – Southeast Asia-focused tech organization True Digital Group steers its regional presence by expanding to the Philippine market, starting off with the launch of TrueID platform.

First introduced in Thailand, TrueID is a new all-in-one digital lifestyle platform that offers free curated content that’s available in the Philippines starting today. It is set to provide a hub for premium content and will feature top-tier Filipino creators and international-renowned producers such as Cignal TV, GMA Network, Philstar, and Mediacorp among others.

“TrueID addresses the needs of the modern viewer by providing engaging content, covering news, entertainment, food, travel, technology, sports, and learning,” said the company in a press statement. 

TDG is a subsidiary of True Corporation, a communications conglomerate that was first established in Thailand. TDG’s local arm in the country is True Digital Philippines, which assists the group in catering to the Filipino market

Sydney, Australia – International professional services Cognizant has announced that it has appointed former managing partner of PwC, Jane Livesey as its newest CEO for Cognizant Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). She starts assuming the role on Aug. 31, 2020. 

At PwC, Livesey led over 800 IT professionals for the company’s technology consulting practice team in Australia. 

Livesey’s professional credentials also trail back to being a tech managing director for Accenture ANZ with a lengthy service of 12 years. 

“We are delighted to welcome Jane to Cognizant. We are confident that her extensive technology consulting experience, client centricity, [and] leadership qualities and personal brand will help us grow our business exponentially in Australia-New Zealand,” Cognizant CEO Brian Humphries said. 

As a recognized advocate for women in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics), Livesay said that in line with Cognizant’s commitment to society, one of her priorities is to leverage the company’s collective passion, experience, and skills to support community programs as everyone continues to navigate the impacts of the pandemic.” 

“I am delighted to be a part of Cognizant and look forward to enabling businesses and institutions in ANZ to keep on top of era-defining innovations and drive growth in the face of continuous technological and market changes,” said Livesey. 

“My priority is to provide ANZ enterprises and governments with high-quality, market-leading digital transformation capabilities that enhance the lives of people,” she added. 

Singapore – Customer feedback management platform provider Medallia has announced that it has launched its latest data center in Singapore, accelerating its investment across the APAC region.

Singapore is a priority market for Medallia, being a global business and connectivity hub, said the company in a press statement. 

“The Singapore data center plays an integral part in ensuring we deliver on the data security and regulatory requirements of businesses who are scaling up customer and employee experience programs. We already have customers using the infrastructure and it will become the default location for many of our Asian customers,” said Medallia APAC Vice President and General Manager Gavin Selkirk. 

As a SaaS cloud platform, Medallia owns and maintains all backend infrastructure, ensuring that reliability, uptime, and operational capabilities match data centers around the world.

The data center will host all Medallia Experience Cloud solutions, including video, digital, speech, conversations, text analytics, and the company’s artificial intelligence product, Athena

As of current, the Singapore branch adds to the company’s ten data centers worldwide, including Toronto, London, Amsterdam, and Sydney.