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Smartphones Bring Happiness And Headaches To Myanmar

September 17, 2015 by Thiha

The number of mobile subscribers in Myanmar has quickly grown in a short five years from a mere 500,000 to more than 22 million — giving Burmese a crash course in all the benefits and challenges new technology can bring. Myanmar’s low electrification rates, recurring power outages and poor Internet infrastructure mean that this growth […]

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There’s an App For That (in Myanmar)

June 9, 2015 by thiha

Emerging from years of censorship to capitalize on growing demand for local apps, developers jump straight to mobile. In 2004, the same year Facebook was launched by Mark Zuckerberg and his college roommates, an 18-year-old in Yangon was hard at work on Myanmar’s first smartphone app. Their lives couldn’t have been more different. While Silicon […]

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Shopping 2.0: Myanmar heads to the web

November 11, 2014 by thiha

Some companies have simplified shopping online down to just one click. In Myanmar, it’s not that simple – but that hasn’t stopped people from taking their business to online stores. For the past few years, connectivity in Myanmar has been scaling and the practice of selling clothes, electronic devices and other products has gained popularity […]