2018’s third quarter
Thailand’s startups
- An intro to Thailand’s Red Planet, fast-expanding budget hotel chain startup
- True Incube incubator partners 6 major regional partners
- depa Accelerator Program x Techsauce launches for public and private sector cooperation
- Google Thailand launches series of digital initiatives, including free public WiFi
- UNESCO launches Women Make the News project grants
- Siam Commercial Bank readies mobile account openings using facial recognition as backbone
- An intro to Thailand’s OmiseGO, aiming to aid the world’s unbanked
- Gov’t Ministry working with Hong Kong Cyberport to develop national startup community and one-stop facilitation
- Thailand 4.0 initiative aims to develop 100 smart cities inside two decades
- IoT adoption expected to be much faster than for PCs or mobile phones
- Business-to-consumer e-commerce ranked highest in SE Asia last year at US$23.33BN
- National Innovation Agency aims to link Thai and Hong Kong startups with long-term goal of China market
- FoodStory restaurant POS startup backed for $1M by Wongnai reviews platform
- Thai government’s PromptPay has 42.6M registrants with a transaction value of $47M
- Bank of Thailand, R3 and local financials launch Project Inthanon to create a central bank digital currency
- Khon Kaen and Phuket take Asia-Pac awards for smart city projects
- UNESCO’s Women Make the News Thailand project applications close shortly
- A look at Thailand’s plan to fight inequality in education using AI
- The 5 startups in the 1st batch of StormBreaker Venture’s edtech accelerator
- Government mulls digital wallet to hold crypto assets seized from criminal activities
- Thailand emerging as one of SE Asia’s most interesting crypto and blockchain countries
- An intro to the Digital Economy Promotion Agency’s ambitious goals for the country
- An intro to the winners of Asia Hardware Battle 2018 Bangkok
- aCommerce logistics startup considers 2020 IPO in unified data platform move
