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MCOT keen on shift to digital platform
Business, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 30/11/2018
» MCOT Plc is shifting from its TV and radio business to the digital platform, with a focus on target audience groups and partners to cope with lower ad spending on traditional media.
SkyDisc looking to spread AI solutions
Business, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 18/05/2018
» SkyDisc, a Japan-based artificial intelligence (AI) solution developer, is broadening its AI solutions in Thailand by collaborating with academic institutes and business partners.
Brave new world
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 02/05/2018
» While virtual reality has been known to gamers for more than a decade, efforts have been made to apply the technology to a wider variety of sectors. This also includes a group of Thai inventors who created VR applications illustrating advantages that go beyond gaming.
E-commerce made easy on 11street
Business, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 01/07/2017
» South Korea-based 11street has spread its wings to capitalise on huge e-commerce opportunities in Thailand, where the penetration rate is a mere 1% of the retail industry.
Finding a niche
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 14/06/2017
» Being an online influencer is mightier than the sword these days. With a certain number of social media followers and the ability to assert opinions, theoretically anyone can become one. But it is not easy to sustain power if the influencer cannot maintain focus.
Thai filmmakers win top honours
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 23/11/2016
» Two Thai filmmaking teams were the finalists to compete with 10 entries from Singapore, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Tanzania at the inaugural the "5-Min Video Challenge" organised by Singtel Group.
Accessibility is the key for redesigned VOD app
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 19/10/2016
» Having studied the pattern among Thai audiences for more than a year, the video-on-demand service HOOQ has introduced a new mobile app.
They've got game
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 05/08/2015
» Game Casters are online celebrities who inhabit unique pockets of YouTube — "pockets" may not sound large enough when the most popular of them has 38 million followers. To "cast game", as the activity is known, is for these people to play through a video game (say, Minecraft) accompanied by humorous, irreverent and sometimes swear-ridden commentary, and their whole subjective experiences are recorded and broadcast on YouTube channels for their fans to watch.
Drawing on the dreams of the young
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 29/10/2014
» Animations Bread War and Soi Dao won first prize in the high school and university category respectively, at the recently held 8th Thailand Animation Contest (TAC) 2014.
Appy New Year
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 26/12/2012
» In the past 12 months, the number of mobile applications has grown tremendously. Apple's App Store has seen a spectacular rise from 500,000 apps last year to one billion in 2012, while the Android apps at Google Play jumped from 400,000 to 700,000.