Foldable Phones Are Here.

The New York Times Your next smartphone may flip open to reveal its screen and fold up when you are ready to put it away – just like the old-school clamshell phones from the 1990s. The question is: Is that something we even want anymore? Tech companies like Samsung, Motorola and Huawei...
Foreign direct investment inflow into Myanmar performs better than some of the neighboring countries, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the State Counsellor of Myanmar and Chairperson of National Committee for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Prevention, Control and Treatment.  “When it comes to foreign investment, our country’s FDI inflow performs better than...
J. D. Biersdorfer (The New York Times) Notifications on your phone and computer are great for keeping up to date with breaking news, weather and traffic updates. But those real-time alerts popping up can also drive you nuts with the frequent interruptions bombarding your screen – not to mention the...
Following an expected 18 percent contraction of the economy in the year ended September 2021, the World Bank’s Myanmar Economic Monitor, released on January 26, projects a growth of 1 percent in the year to September 2022. While reflecting recent signs of stabilization in some areas, the projection remains consistent...
အောက်တွင် မြန်မာလို ဖတ်ရှုနိုင်ပါသည် Ascent Myanmar Growth Fund I LP (AMGF), Myanmar-Focused private equity fund owned by Ascent Capital Partners Pte. Ltd, a Singapore-registered fund management firm, has made a combined $26 million minority investment in Frontiir Pte. Ltd, an internet service provider under the name Myanmar Net. “By supporting Frontiir, a...
Recently, Ooredoo Myanmar changed their brand logo on Facebook baffling the users amid rumours that Ooredoo Group was planning to sell its Myanmar branch. But it turned out that the new logo was Ooreddo's new brand positioning with the new tagline UPGRADE YOUR WORLD. "This is a hugely exciting new phase...
Written by Rajan Acharya There was a  time in Myanmar around  2002 the internet was only available in selected major cities costing K 500-1500 for 1 hour the connection is normally slow and often interrupts.  Those painful days are in the past, now the internet is easily accessible through the...
Jack Nicas, Conor Dougherty and Daisuke Wakabayashi (New York Times) SAN FRANCISCO About a month after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, Larry Page, the Google co-founder, was summoned along with other prominent tech executives to a meeting at Trump Tower. It was a rare public appearance for Page. He sported...
A cloud-based HR tech start-up Better Technologies (“Better HR”) has raised a six-digit bridge round from new investors as well as existing investors such as Seed Myanmar Ventures, Blibros, and nexlabs. Better HR is a cloud-based enterprise web and mobile apps enabling organizations to streamline HR processes, such as attendance,...
Microsoft for Startups launches the Highway to a 100 Unicorns initiative in the Asia Pacific to strengthen the region’s startup ecosystem. This follows the initiative’s success in India, where only 56 startups were selected to the Emerge X program from six states, which have over 15000+ startups. The Emerge X winners...