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POPidols is a digital content services and technology provider company that uses innovative technology and solution to deliver results for the world’s leading content company. Since inception, POPidols has been recognized by the industry and the press as pioneer and innovator in the field of digital entertainment. |
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• Raised 27 million baht from angel investors as seed capital for POPidols. |
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• Symphony won bid to exclusively manage all mobile content for the Big 5 music labels (BMG, EMI, Sony Music, Universal Music and Warner Music). |
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• License Symphony to JATIS to manage all mobile content for SonyBMG (Indonesia) and Aquarius for Indonesia. |
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• Signed agreement with Faith Inc. (http://www.faith-inc.com) to provide Symphony solution for their project with Celcom in Malaysia. |
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• License Symphony to OM (Open Mobile) to provide mobile content in Singapore Market.
• Signed Exculsive Content Partner with Vithita Animation, the legendary Thai cartoon to provide mobile services.
• Awards from NIA, SME Bank and ACB. |
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• License Symphony to Starhub (Singapore’s Number Two Telco) to manage all their mobile games. |
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• License Symphony to KCAP (a Kyocera Company) in Singapore. |
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Preecha Praipattarakul (Cha)
• Cha is one of the two founders and served as the President and Chief Technology Officer of POPidols, a legend Thai leading technology company who architected “Symphony,” the cutting edge digital content management platform to serve the digital music content for major international music labels in Thailand. He is one of the digital content specialist who understands 360 degree of digital content business thus he had been invited to be a speaker on digital content or technology related for Thai Government or Public Organization, he also contributes his expertise for Thai Entertainment Association and one of the jury members for technology contests held by Thai ICT ministry, SIPA (Software Industry Promotion Agency)
• He joined dFusion(http://www.digitalfusion.tv) in 2003 as one of the founders and Chief Technology Officer who take care of technology and content related works. He created interactive technology to support dFusion’s first TV show, Gamers’ Zone for both online and mobile with one of the most successful interactive strategy for TV show in Thailand. Cha is a New Media and Digital Content Technology Expert with more than 15 years as super user and 10 years as technology architecture and design. He has business administration background while his interests are technology related categories, gadgets, internet technology, software development, mobile phone, telecommunication and games! The combination of two different knowledge, business and technology give him to understand how to use the technology to fulfill business requirements and goals. |
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• For Public, Cha is a Vice President (New Media) of Thai Entertainment Association (http://www.thaientertainment.org). In July 2008, he was appointed to become a member in ICT subcommittee to the Senate on ICT matters. His latest accomplishment is to initiate a public hearing on economy and society effect of The Computer Crime Act 2007, Thai Citizen Health Database and Telecommunication Transaction Auditing.
Fast Facts
• Prime Minister Award as Young Scientist and Technologist in 1991.
• Founded POPidols Co., Ltd. the leading Digital Content and Technology Provider.
• Symphony, the Technology he invented was awarded by National Innovation Agency (NIA), Asset Capitalization Bareu (ACB) and SME Bank.
• Vice President (New Media) Thai Entertainment Industry Association (http://www.thaientertainment.org).
• Member of Sub-committee Information Communication and Technology, the Senate. |
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O Thongsrinoon (O)
• O is a co-founder and served as CEO of POPidols. He has over 10 years of international experience in the Internet, digital media, wireless, and game industry. I was fortunate to have started out at EarthLink Network as tech support. EarthLink was a new business formed around the same time as other Internet luminaries such as Yahoo, Amazon, and eBay.
• From there, his career was on fast-track, growing at the same torrid pace as did many companies during the dotcom boom. After three years of learning and finally hitting glass ceiling, he left EarthlLnk to accept offer as Director of Product Management at LAUNCH (Yahoo acquired LAUNCH late 2000).
• He left LAUNCH in May of 2000 and moved to Thailand to start POPidols. The initial mission was to have POPidols be the provider of Asian pop culture content for American market. Six months into product development, dotcom bubble burst. All our clients and partners either filed bankruptcy or shifted to survival mode.
• The event completely wiped out our channel for revenue. By then, POPidols had already committed most of its financial resource into building the platform. We were in trouble and the next four years saw us in full survival mode. |
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• Much to our credit (or stupidity) we persevered. In 2006, POPidols became the first IT company in Thailand that was able to use our IP
(intellectual property) as collateral. This is a monumental achievement for a country there's utter lack of ability to do valuation for
non-tangible asset like IP. |
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