Yantana Simavanichkul is Nokia Thailand’s new Managing Director and plans to enhance the company’s position in the local smartphone market.  Nokia (Thailand) Ltd has recently appointed Yantana Simavanichkul as the new managing director. Yantana is no stranger to the company as he spearheaded Nokia Thailand as Head of Sales for five years. A diligent man, Read the full article…

Red Dot Ventures is investing S$600,000 in CRM, market intelligence and big data firm The Stakeholder Company. Doing business is more than just focusing on sales and revenue. These days, your bottomline is affected by how well you connect with customers and how quickly you are able to gain traction with your target audience. Firms Read the full article…

SparxUp in Jakarta has concluded, and our Indonesia-based correspondent has a wrap-up of the hackathon sessions and awarding. Continuing our earlier post on the SparxUp event in Jakarta, here were the 10 hackathon teams that finished their apps and got the opportunity to have a five-minute presentation. Hackathon Augmented Diary’s SquareNote - SquareNote is another location-based Read the full article…

As tech entrepreneurship continues to grow in Indonesia, founder of leading local tech blog DailySocial shares his takes on what really is happening on the ground. Looking to learn more about the progress that the Indonesian startup community has made over the past year, e27 interviewed Rama Mamuaya, the founder of leading Indonesian tech blog Read the full article…

It’s down to three smartphone contenders – Android, iOS and Windows, and there’s a big fight ahead. Nokia shares might be tanking from poor Lumia sales, but at least, CEO Stephen Elop got one thing right: the major contenders in the smartphone wars have now been reduced to three major ecosystems: Android, iOS, and Windows, Read the full article…

On June 20, consternation struck the crop of existing Windows Phone owners watching the Windows Phone Summit held in San Francisco: there would be no update to Windows Phone 8 for their phones. All we’ll get is a bump up to Windows Phone 7.8. Microsoft hasn’t revealed entirely what this update will contain, and but Read the full article…

Across regions such as the U.S and Western Europe, hackathon fever has been taking over. It now comes to Asia, and heats up Indonesia. After last year’s BBM Apps by Research In Motion (RIM), Telkomsel Startup Bootcamp, Global Dartby Dart Team and GTUG Surabaya were sponsored by Google, and NASA and US Embassy’s International Space Apps Challenge in May Read the full article…