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Bitcoin a godsend for call scams
News, Post Reporters, Published on 30/01/2018
» Authorities are meting out measures to prevent further damage after new findings suggest fraudsters in various scams have switched to cryptocurrencies to hide their ill-gotten assets.
Spread of fake news aims to silence dissent: Rappler chief
Reuters, Published on 30/01/2018
» MANILA: The head of a Philippine online news site battling revocation of its licence on Tuesday said some governments have sought to "silence dissent" through the proliferation of fake news, flooding social media with hate messages.
Trump sets Twitter aside, prepares big speech
Associated Press, Published on 31/01/2018
» WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump will herald a robust economy and push for bipartisan congressional action on immigration in Tuesday night's State of the Union address, as he seeks to rally a deeply divided nation and boost his own sagging standing with Americans.
BoT chews over e-marketplace proposal
Business, Published on 31/01/2018
» The Bank of Thailand is mulling requests made by six financial institutions to offer their own e-marketplace platforms, viewed as an effort to gain a first-mover advantage in online financial services to guard market share ahead of the full-scale entry of technology and payment behemoths.
Kaidee expanding online services to include farmers
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 31/01/2018
» Kaidee, Thailand's largest consumer-to-consumer marketplace platform, is expanding its online space in property and farming products to boost its rural user base.
'Uber of tutoring' prepares to school Thai students
Business, Published on 31/01/2018
» Hong Kong-based online tutoring platform Snapask plans to launch in Thailand in the next two weeks, but the chief of the Thai arm says the firm doesn't have a profitability target date yet.
Jay Mart says ICO will go on
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 31/01/2018
» SET-listed mobile distributor Jay Mart insists that it will move ahead with selling its JFin digital currency through an initial coin offering (ICO) as scheduled, with company officials voicing confidence that the plan will comply with soon-to-be-launched regulations.
PTTGC, Daelim nearing US deal
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 31/01/2018
» SET-listed PTT Global Chemical Plc (PTTGC), Thailand's largest petrochemical maker by capacity, has agreed to team up with South Korea's Daelim Group, a construction and petrochemical firm, to develop a US petrochemical complex.
Decorating your home just got easier
Life, AKIN, Published on 31/01/2018
» Decorating your home has become easier and more convenient as one can get instant advice and services from interior designers digitally.
Help kids navigate the social media roller coaster
Life, James Hein, Published on 31/01/2018
» A study has come out recently, confirming what we already know. Children spending more than an hour a day engaged in social media can make them less happy. Take something like Facebook for example. You post something, people read it then they give it a like and sometimes make a comment. Now imagine you are a young impressionable child somewhere under 18. You post something and get 50 likes. Sometime later you post something else and get 65 likes and feel better. Then the third time you only get five likes and some comments about how lame it was. Now you feel worse. Multiply this by a few hundred times and the emotional roller coaster can have someone with a developing emotional platform spiralling into their first depression.