MANILA, PHILIPPINES — It’s just the start of the work day. Instead of queueing up at a nearby Starbucks on the busy hour, you pull out your phone and order from the reliable delivery app and have it delivered to your office. You sign in at work and the subscription reminder for your project management tool is the first email you see in your inbox. By mid day, the work tolls on and you’re tempted to book the cheapest flight out to the beach next month.
Digital subscriptions, ecommerce transactions, online travel, and hassle-free bill payment all underpin digital financial solutions as the “bedrock of all the transactions that’s happening” abd the dominant driver of the third shift, as Google’s Country Director in the Philippines and Thailand Jackie Wang, calls it.
With the disruption as the preface of it all and a heavy hand on developing AI as an infrastructure, Google is …