Friday, June 14, 2013

Local developer aims to bring mobile apps to Myanmar

How do you build a blockbuster app in Myanmar, one of Asia’s poorest countries? You go and ask a fortune teller for help, according to 25-year-old Htoo Myint Naung, a local developer.

“There’s a very famous fortune teller in Yangon, he is called San Zamibo. We go and begged him to give up his contents,” he said. “We licensed it, and then made an app.”

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Htoo Myint Naung, CEO of Technomation, a tech company in Myanmar

Htoo Myint Naung is just one of the young tech entrepreneurs in Myanmar, a country that is now opening to the world after decades of military rule. Flooding in are investors from across the world, along with the prospect that foreign Internet firms might come in as well, and set up shop. But local developers like Htoo Myint Naung want their piece of the market too, and are doing so through their own local knowledge of the market.

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Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2042043/local-developer-aims-to-bring-mobile-apps-to-myanmar.html#tk.rss_all

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