2003: Level Up!

Level Up! Games licenses the Oz World and Regnarok online games.  These become popular among young players, increasing growth in Internet usage at home and in cybercafes, and promoting e-commerce through oline ordering of credits.  The company is adopting the Korean model of multiplayer online gaming.

LevelUp! in 2005

2003: PICS SME IT Excellece Awards

The Philippine Internet Commerce Society launched its PICS SME IT Excellence Awards in the 2nd E-Commerce Congress and recognized Godiva for its efforts in adopting ICT and Internet use.

Godiva in 2001

2003: PLDT Cyber Madness

PLDT offers the Cyber Madness promo. It partners with dealers to offer computers on an installment basis when tied up with a dial up or DSL broadband subscription.  This expands their consumer base beyond customers who already have PC´s, and aim to improve the low domestic PC penetration which hurts Internet expansion.

To this date low credit penetration due to low income is a barrier to e-commerce adaptation. Traditionally, Internet commerce systems ave been dependent on credit cards. Fraud concerns also stop people from using their cards on local sites.

PLDT in 2009

2003: Online Fraud

Online merchants outside the counter block transactions originating from the Philippines and some other countries.  This measure is intended to prevent credit card fraud by blocking customers en masse, instead of addressing fraud on a case-to-case basis.  One merchant with this policy is the domain registrar GoDaddy.com, which now blocks IP connections from the Philippines.  Their blocking strategy affected local domain owners who used them to register domains.  The Philippines is known among merchants to ave high incidence of online fraud.

GoDaddy.com in 1999