Showing 1 - 9 of 9
Invigorated by young blood
Business, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 05/05/2018
» In a male-dominated world, the lady boss of Sea Thailand, the local provider of Garena online games, has proved that a woman's power lies in her creativity, intuition and ability to lead a business.
You play, You pay
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 24/06/2015
» Bee7, an android games monetisation platform, and Vserv, a smart data platform for mobile marketing in India and Southeast Asia, recently teamed up to help solve mobile game monetisation in the region. It has been notoriously difficult to monetise mobile games in Southeast Asia due to a weak payment infrastructure and low credit card usage, which makes paying for games or in-app purchases practically impossible.
Asia takes the lead in ever-smarter mobiles
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 12/11/2014
» Over the next five years, in the early morning, you will be woken by something that can figure out the optimum time to get up from your slumber. You will look at the screen on the wall and say: “Do I need to get up?” The screen will look back at you and answer: “No. You may sleep for another 17 minutes.”
Chaos Sphere wins MSeed Accelerator's first prize
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 22/10/2014
» The puzzle RPG Chaos Sphere won the first prize at the MSeed Accelerator programme, making its team developer Snooze Fox the first in Thailand to showcase its work at the Game Development Conference (GDC), the world's largest and longest-running professionals-only game industry event to be held in San Francisco in March next year.
The business of playing
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 30/07/2014
» Many of the world's experts in game design and production praised the game concepts and art of Thai developers as unique and brilliant at the beginning of Thailand's first startup accelerator for game developers, MSeed, last week.
The future of chat
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 26/02/2014
» Although WeChat, China’s top social media app, has yet to garner much popularity in Thailand, it has expanded its features in recent years and started to gain ground in several other Asian countries including Malaysia and Singapore.
Good progress but more needed
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 02/10/2013
» Local programme designers have proved their potential in the global market, but there's still a long way to go if Thailand is to achieve its ambition of becoming Asean's software hub. However, the success of Software Expo Asia 2013, which wound up in Bangkok last weekend, was regarded by industry insiders as marking a significant step on that road.
Arresting developments
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 05/06/2013
» Mobile application development is one of the creative careers young Thais dream of pursuing. Recently, two respected app creation professionals from Silicon Valley were in Bangkok to share their experience and gave suggestions during a workshop at the dtac Accelerate competition.
No class barrier
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 03/04/2013
» The role of teachers over the next three to five years must and will evolve, and students in the 21st century must have the fundamentals of literacy, numeracy, and digital literacy to cope with the changing circumstances.