dtac reveals the mobile internet usages during the New Year of 2019. The data usage is lively, with Bangkok has the highest usage with Facebook as the ranked most popular application during the festival.
Line Man, an assisting service platform, revealed that the overall services of Line Man grew 300% during the New Year festival period.
Enthusiastic, entrepreneurial, and self-driven, Thais are already leading the world in social commerce and innovation. Thailand is the world’s biggest social commerce market where
Facebook looks to be jumping on the blockchain wagon with plans to introduce its own stablecoin, according to a report from Bloomberg.
Generation Z is entering the workforce, bringing with it a tech-first mentality that will propel businesses further into the digital era, according to Gen Z research by Dell Technologies.
Mobile games are now dominating App Store and Google Play downloads. According to gaming research firm Newzoo, mobile gaming will generate more than $70 billion in 2018, which is over three-quarters of total app store revenue, and there will be over 2 billion global players.
KASIKORNBANK and LINE announce to establish a brand-new company “KASIKORN LINE Co. Ltd” with an aim to take 44 million LINE users in Thailand even closer to more user-friendly and accessible financial services. Product and services are planned to launch in 2nd half of next year, targeted to be the top five lending service provider within 5 years.
KASIKORNBANK (KBank) introduces the “QR KBank” – an e-wallet application to grant an access to financial services for residents of Vientiane, Lao PDR, which will be effective on December 11, 2018. This application that offers cashless convenience in support of the policy of the Lao government is expected to serve around 2,000,000 transactions worth more than 115 million baht.
Think of it as “Moneyball” for e-commerce.
Just as professional sports teams have used reams of data to maximize performance, Chinese billionaire Jack Ma is turning to analytics to get the most out of fans and change the way athletic events are managed and people shop for gear.
Priceza predicts the trends that all road will head to e-commerce business in 2019 where e-marketplace will face more opportunies and challenges, e-payment will achieve a leap growth and omnichannel will pay more important role.
Ad spending this year is estimated to grow 3.5% to 89.5 billion baht
Business leaders across Asia Pacific remain confident that their companies revenues will grow over the next 12 months despite increasing trade frictions.