120:âthrough its subsidiary MIH, for an undisclosed sum, speculated to be in the range of multiple tens of millions of baht. Sanook.com, along with several other Thai web properties, became part of the Mweb (Thailand) Company, headed by Craig White. Mweb also launched another web portal, Mweb.co.th, with the aim of developing it as an international brand serving the regionâat the expense of Sanook, a move contested by Poramate. Shortly after, however, the bursting of the dot-com bubble forced MIH to scale down its operations, leaving Mweb (Thailand) in the hand of Thai executives. Poramate left after the term of his contract ended, and later went on to establish
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