Wazzup Pilipinas News and Events

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Red Bull Thre3style World DJ Championships: The Search for the Philippines' Best DJ

Wazzup Pilipinas!

Will you be the Philippines’ first-ever Red Bull Thre3style champion?

After the success of last year’s Red Bull Thre3style Showcase, the organizers are holding more events in 2014 - but this time they are looking for the Philippines’ best DJ to represent the Philippines at the World Finals in Baku, Azerbaijan.

We are giving a shoutout to the world-class Filipino DJs of the Philippines to apply in this prestigious competition:

In order to apply for the competition, DJs need to register on the .com website: http://www.redbullthre3style.com/enter
For updates, the Facebook event page has been activated: https://www.facebook.com/events/228775040656251/

What are you waiting for, guys? I know that there are a lot of great DJs out there with superb skills comparable with world-class foreign DJs so you better flaunt your skills and become recognized worldwide.

This is your opportunity to shine out among the rest by giving out your best!

LINE Global Community Has Grown 400M Strong

Wazzup Pilipinas!

As LINE enthralls more Filipinos with its colorful combination of features and services, the mobile messaging app’s global community continues to post unprecedented growth as it recently surpassed 400 million users.

Since its launch in 2011, LINE has grown into a global communications app that lets users communicate through voice and video calls, as well as stickers and text messages.

“One of our goals for 2014 was to reach over 500 million users and today we’ve been able reach the milestone of 400 million,” says Akira Morikawa, CEO of LINE Corporation. “I’d like to thank all our users and supporters for their help so far.”

Behind growing user bases in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia, the amount of LINE’s daily new users has reached a record-breaking pace of 1.7 million per day—indicating rapid worldwide growth.

Alongside the rising number of users, the amount of communication made through LINE has also skyrocketed. Since the start of 2014, records have been set for the daily usage of chat messages (10 billion/day), sticker messages (1.8 billion/day), and phone calls (over 12 million/day).

Wazzup Pilipinas!

We would like to share to our readers that Wazzup Pilipinas was recently featured in one of the leading newspapers of the country, the Philippine Star, just yesterday April 7, 2014, Monday.

The feature was also posted on their online portal in digital form via the following link:

http://www.philstar.com/networks/2014/04/07/1309566/wazzup-named-top-phl-community-blog-site

We are grateful to have been recognized by award-giving bodies even though we've only been around for less than a year. This just proves that a lot of things can happen in just a short span of time given the right opportunities.

Wazzup Pilipinas aims to become the preferred online media partner of everything that's happening in the Philippines because our advocacy is to promote the country as a promising economic tiger that has outgrown its third-world country image. After all, we are the home of the best boxers, the most number of beauty queens, and the best beaches in the world.

Below is the full page copy from the newspaper containing the article: