Marlon Stockinger: the Prince of Speed enjoys a fast-paced life in the fast lane.

Filipino-Swiss racer Marlon Stockinger recently bagged the third place win at the Nurburgring leg of the 2014 Formula Renault 3.5 series, Stockinger inches closer to his dream of being a Formula One driver. 

Marlon Stockinger: Living the life in the fast lane

The Nurburgring win moved Stockinger two notches higher in the championship standings, placing him at the number eight. He will compete again at the next round in Hungaroring track in Budapest, Hungary on Septermber 13-14-the seventh of nine tracks forming Renault’s World Series. The competition is a major step to qualify for the F1 series, known as the fastest and premier racing sport. 

After igniting his passion for racing with go-karting when he was nine, Stockinger moved to Europe when he was 17 to pursue his dream of being an F1 racer. In February 2013, he joined the Lotus F1 Junior Team, where one undergoes rigorous training to prepare to compete in the F1 races. 

As the Prince of Speed, Marlon enjoys a fast-paced lifestyle on and off track. For someone who knows what it’s like to deal with constant travels, he finds fast and seamless connectivity as instrumental to close the gap separating him from home. “I know what it feels like to want to be constantly updated, especially if it has something to do with the people I care about. It helps me concentrate better if I know my loved ones are okay, especially during difficult times such as typhoons,” he said. 

As the perfect embodiment of speed, Globe has always been committed to supporting Stockinger’s F1 journey. On August 30, Globe will stage “Slipstream”—an event where fans and racing aficionados can gather and witness Stockinger drive his Lotus-Gravity Charouz Formula Renault 3.5 car around the premises of Bonifacio Global City in Taguig. 

Slipstream will also let attendees experience Lotus F1 simulators, booths, freebies, and games in partner-establishments. The day will be capped off with a high-velocity concert and party to celebrate Stockinger's and Globe's milestones.

Globe schedules relief ops in Orion, Bataan

Tomorrow, July 19, 2014 Globe will set out to distribute relief goods in Orion, Bataan, one of the areas that were hit by Typhoon Glenda.

They will give out uncooked rice, noodles, canned goods, and coffee prepared by Globe volunteer staff to at least 200 families in Orion.

Globe also set up Libreng Tawag and Charging stations in Orion to help in the communication needs of the residents who still have no electricity and have no way to charge their cell phones.       

More Libreng Tawag and Charging stations were also provided at the Daraga Public Market in Daraga, Albay and the North-bound jeep terminal in Naga City, Camarines Sur.

Earlier, similar facilities were put up at the Daet Elevated Town Plaza, Daet, Camarines Norte; University of Eastern Philippines, Catarman, Northern Samar; in front of Tradecom Office, Lapu-lapu St. and in front of Legazpi Public Market, Legazpi City, Albay; Merville Access Road, Paranaque City, Metro Manila; and  People’s Hall, Brgy. Poblacion, Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila.

Source: beta.globe.com.ph

Globe Extends ICT solutions to Mercy Corps Cash Transfer Program

I’m happy to share this wonderful news about how Globe is extending its ICT solutions to Mercy Corps, a global humanitarian organisation. 

While Mercy Corps implementing a cash transfer and financial literacy program for 25,500 households in the affected areas of Typhoon Yolanda, primarily in the islands of Leyte, Cebu and Panay.

Globe Telecom will be aid in monitoring the disbursement of funds as well as providing financial literacy advisories to individuals through their mobile phones.

“Globe Telecom’s vision is to provide financial inclusion for the country’s entrepreneurial poor by giving them access to financial services. At the same time, we want to reach as many disaster victims as possible. 

From L-R:  Globe SVP for Corporate Communications Yoly Crisanto, Mercy Corps Country Director Erynn Carter, and Ayala Foundation, Inc. Sr. Director for Programs Rowena Lopez

This partnership with Mercy Corps assures us that those two objectives are achieved,” said Yoly Crisanto, Senior Vice President, Globe Corporate Communications.

“This generous donation from Globe will increase the speed and efficiency with which we can promote economic recovery in areas that were hardest hit by the typhoon,” said Erynn Carter, Philippines country director for Mercy Corps. “Most importantly it will help us promote the long-term financial resilience of affected families.” 

The Department of Social Welfare and Development helped select the families that were invited to take part in the program.

Globe Telecom’s donated services include Text Connect subscriptions, Tattoo Myfi sticks, tablets, cellular phones, Globe BridgeCom Affinity SIM cards, and mobile postpaid subscriptions. 

In addition, Ayala Foundation, Inc. (AFI) is handling the disbursement of funds raised by the Globe-initiated “Bangon Pinoy” program, which serves communities devastated by calamities. AFI envisions communities where people are productive, creative, self-reliant, and proud to be Filipinos. 

Filipinos enjoy free access to Spotify with a Globe GoSURF data plan subscription

Another music streaming app is gaining attraction globally when the world’s most popular music streaming service Spotify announced its user reached over 40 million worldwide, recorded 10 million paying subscribers, and created 1.5 billion playlists available with over 5 million playlists each day.

Rapper Eminem is the most streamed male artist of all time, followed by David Guetta. In the female category, Rihanna tops the list as most streamed female artist with Katy Perry next in line. 

Avicii’s Wake Me Up is the most streamed song of all time with more than 235 million streams, while David Guetta is the most followed artist with more than 5 million followers. 

In the past month, Top 100 Pop Tracks on Spotify was the most streamed playlist, while Clean Bandit’s “Rather Be feat. Jess Glynne” was the most played song in offline mode.

Spotify offers the best free music experience in the history of the smartphone, giving users access to over 30 million of songs with amazing audio quality of up to 320kbps and other features such as playlist creation, music discovery, organization tools, and offline mode.

In the Philippines, music-loving Filipinos can enjoy free access to Spotify, which also offers the most extensive OPM songs, by subscribing to GoSURF, Globe Telecom’s mobile internet plan that offers megabytes (MB) of data consumable per kilobyte. The MBs in every GoSURF data plan are used to browse the Internet to surf, send and receive e-mails, update social networks, download games and apps, and more. 

“With our exclusive partnership with Spotify, we strengthen our vision to provide an enriched online experience and access to free online content for our digitally-attuned customers, says Peter Bithos, Chief Operating Advisor at Globe. “With its extensive music catalogue and innovative features, Spotify gives us a new and exceptional way of listening to music. Coupled with our GoSURF data plan, our customers get to enjoy the best of both worlds; consumable mobile internet to do the things they love plus 30 million songs to listen to and share, all for free. Make your world sound wonderful with GoSURF and Spotify for a mobile experience like no other.”

Customers on GoSURF can enjoy free access to Spotify without worries as usage of the app will not consume allocated MBs for every GoSURF data plan. 

Prepaid subscribers can register to GoSURF10 for as low as P10 for 10MB of data plus access to Spotify for an entire day. Postpaid customers can subscribe to GoSURF299 for as low as P299 for 700MB of data plus access to Spotify Premium for 30 days. Tattoo Prepaid customers can avail of GoSURF50 for as low as P50 for 250MB of data plus access to Spotify for 3 days.