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Myanmar’s tech landscape is still undecided and it’s possible that getting in early now is the right moment. MyChat is seizing this opportunity by tackling Myanmar’s new smartphone userbase.

If you’ve been watching the startup space in Myanmar, you’ve probably heard of MySQUAR. It’s a social network that recently pivoted to the mobile app platform space. Last time we

Check out the highlights from the day one afternoon sessions at Startup Asia Singapore 2014.

Rita Nguyen, founder and CEO of Squar, is on the right in red. Building a startup is never easy regardless of what market it’s in. There will always be challenges

Squar is at the cutting edge of Myanmar’s internet evolution. It’s bore witness to the swearing, nudity, and more out of the new internet users that are just now getting online in Myanmar.

VisitMM is blazing trails for travel booking in Myanmar, where traveling is still in the midst of taking off, big time.

Is it possible that chat apps are actually not battling at all? That they can co-exist unlike Facebook and Google+.

Squar…focuses very much on encouraging users to share and interact in communities or forums in topics that they’re interested in. This is a big problem for Myanmar, where content is still in its infancy. Rita says that Squar is not looking to be a news portal, but rather, encourages users to generate content together. In this way, Squar does compete with Facebook, but is more focused on getting consistent and readable content that is topic-centered.

Squar is entering the wild west of Myanmar to trailblaze the nascent internet scene. Here’s what they’re up to.