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7 predictions for Southeast Asia's tech scene in 2017

2016 was the year of Brexit and Trump, and the year Uber exited China

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Patrick Grove
2016 ended, and it came with some unexpected surprises.? Everyone has been asking, “What will happen in 2017?

1. Southeast Asia will become a bigger internet market than America

The ASEAN region will register over 300 million smartphone users in 2017, compared to America which only has 225 million. What that means is that every global app or service you can think of (email, social media, chat, etc.) has more users in Southeast Asia than in all of America. What this also means is that internet companies in our part of the world can – and should – be bigger than