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Pornthip Kongchun, Jitta co-founder and chief operations officer, says the company now offers two main services – jitta.com for individual investors and Jitta Wealth.  The jitta.com website is a free-of-charge service that aims to attract facilitate individual investors to use jitta.com as tools for their investment portfolio. Jitta Wealth is a paid portfolio service for investors.  Seven stock-exchange markets are available through jitta.com in the US, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Japan, UK and Hong Kong. In 2019, it hopes to increase its information to cover 16 stock markets, covering the majority of the world’s exchanges. The company will expand to oversee markets first with jitta.com services, followed by Jitta Wealth. Singapore and India are two main new markets for jitta.com this year, and local partners there are already helping to build brand awareness in those markets.  Jitta Wealth will then be introduced to those markets. The jitta.com … [Read more...] about Jitta to expand paid access to AI-led portfolio analysis

There’s more than one way for a startup to grow to global dimensions and achieve “unicorn” status, and Southeast Asia offers that opportunity to build on initial success due to its large population and expectations the region is “the next China”. The region’s population is around 655.6 million, almost half that of China’s 1.415 billion people. And Southeast Asia is twice as big as the United States with its population of 326.8 million. According to a recent Google-Temasek study, the Internet economy of the region will reach US$240 billion by 2025. It is already the world’s fastest growing Internet economy, with 480 million Internet users expected by 2020, up from 260 million now. Southeast Asia boasts many large corporates that increasingly focus on innovation and would like to disrupt their industry. Thus, RISE is positioning itself as the regional corporate innovation accelerator for Southeast Asia. The company’s mission, … [Read more...] about Finding the perfect MATCH

The Internet service provider and YouTube will provide free 2GB data for a month to watch video clips via YouTube Kids, an app for families and kids. The give-away runs from January 12 to April 11, with other service providers later included in the programme. DTAC will also partner with top YouTube content creators, including Kru Noklek, Dek Jew Chill Out, Lovely Kids Thailand, Pororo, Madame TV, and Brianna’s Secret Club, to provide informative programming and entertainment content to celebrate National Children’s Day. Given that many children watch YouTube daily, DTAC wants to help reduce the likelihood that they will access inappropriate content, says Panthep Nilasinthop, senior vice president and head of digital sales, services and marketing division, for the company. To help reduce that risk, DTAC (also known as Total Access Communication) joined forces with YouTube as part of an online ecosystem intended to benefit Thai children and youth by helping inspire … [Read more...] about DTAC, YouTube join up to offer family friendly content

Mana Treelayapewat, dean of the School of Communication Arts at the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, said political parties have been using social media much more to try and win votes due to the online platforms’ high penetration among the country’s 50-million-plus voters. For the upcoming election, the number of first-time voters age 18 and up is estimated to be around seven million, and social media are their preferred means of communication. Most social networks are being used to present the parties’ policies and activities and the details of MP candidates, Mana said.  Voters will have to be on guard against the dissemination of content that’s subtly distorted to win votes, he said. Traditional media outlets can also be misled by such inaccurate content, so they too must carefully vet it before publishing or broadcasting. One tactic employed by social-media experts engaged by political parties is to spread alternative views and partial … [Read more...] about Social media to play major role in vote

Most AI adopters – which now account for 72 per cent of organisations globally – conduct ethics training for their technologists (70 per cent) and have ethics committees in place to review the use of AI (63 per cent), according to the latest study, AI Momentum, Maturity and Models for Success (Link). The study was commissioned by SAS, Accenture Applied Intelligence and Intel, and conducted by Forbes Insights in July 2018. According to the study AI leaders – organisations rating their deployment of AI “successful” or “highly successful” – also take the lead on responsible AI efforts: Almost all (92 percent) train their technologists in ethics compared to 48 percent of other AI adopters. The findings are based on a global survey among 305 business leaders in the Americas, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, more than half of them chief information officers, chief technology offers, and chief analytics officers.  AI now has a … [Read more...] about Firms move  towards  responsible