Fil-Am entrepreneurs

NEW YORK — For their contributions to New York City’s borough of Queens, the borough president Melinda Katz gave these men and woman citations of honor in celebration of their achievements during the Philippine independence month of...

The sports world, fantasy sports and cryptocurrency are crossing paths with a Filipino-founded company. The fantasy sports app would allow users from all around the world to use its own cryptocurrency. The mobile app will launch...

by Marieton Pacheco Narcelie Enderes is thankful for tourists visiting the Kadayawan Village in Davao City. Not only do they get to showcase their Mangobo Tagabawa tribe culture, they also sell handwoven products to earn a living. But...

WOODSIDE, NY — Filipina business owner Rena Avendula was arrested last Friday, charged with five counts of visa fraud, and was released on a $75,000 bail. Avendula, founder and president of now-defunct medical staffing agency called  Professional...

PROVO, Utah — In 2015, Tarlac residents Rufino and Tess Mejia created a small ice candy business. Rufino had just lost his full-time job as a cashier at a private firm, and they needed to earn...

ST. CHARLES, IL — 52-year-old Rowena Zimmers has in her office a nipa hut, a replica she says of her home in Pangasinan. “We didn’t have any indoor plumbing or electricity,” said Zimmers, founder and president of ALE...

LOS ANGELES — Some of LA’s best Pinoy bites, business ideas, and the latest technologies — NextDayBetter is back, and is looking to make the business climate for young Filipino-Americans even better. “It’s very rare to have a...

NEW YORK — It has been three and a half years now, since this Fil-Am entrepreneur came up with “Juliette” — an app that she hoped would become the Uber for laundry. On the home screen,...

OAKLAND, CA — This is the Pause Now bus. It’s the brainchild of Filipina Oakland resident Jackie Corwin, who is getting ready to formally launch her mobile meditation center — the first of its kind in...

She was known as Marian the Foodie — a prominent food blogger and marketing expert when it came to Filipino food. But four years ago, the entrepreneur/blogger Marian Bacol Uba left Southern California for South Beach,...