By 2030, Vietnam aims to be among the top three in ASEAN in terms of technology development and to have five world-class technology groups.

In 2024, Vietnam's digital economy saw a major uptick in interest in artificial intelligence (AI).

Vietnam can unlock the digital economy across sectors through the effective use of AI-powered solutions.

Leading technology groups in Vietnam like FPT and Viettel doubt the feasibility of the government’s hardware and electronics development strategy, calling it too ambitious.

About 43 per cent of the software installed on personal computers around the world last year lacked properly licences, an increase of one percentage point compared with 2011, according to a survey by BSA – the Software Alliance.

The number of cyberattacks on Vietnamese websites, especially government agencies’ websites with “gov.vn” domain name, has been increasing.

In the past few months, enterprises such as FPT Software, Global Cybersoft and Fujinet recruited hundreds of information technology (IT) engineers. Some even asked for 50-100 engineers at once.

Over recent years, VNPT International has reached out to foreign markets such as Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar, helping Vietnam become one of the key telecom suppliers in Southeast Asia, according to Tran.

​Viettel – one of the three largest mobile networks in Vietnam – has asked the Ministry of Information and Communications’ permission to use the same charge for mobile phone calls made between subscribers of the same networks and those made between subscribers of two different networks.

American firms have urged the US Congress to ratify the Vietnam-US cooperation agreement in the nuclear sector in order to create more jobs, and Russia and Japan have signed nuclear cooperation agreements with Vietnam.

With the Prime Minister having allowing state agencies to use outsourced services, information technology (IT) firms hope they will get more jobs in the time to come.

Russia’s State Duma has approved an agreement on cooperation in the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes, Radio the Voice of Russia reported.

The Vietnamese may be one of the most globally-connected people, but they still need a faster Internet connection.

Vietnamese technology firms are continuing tomake every effort to launch new products into the market, even though made-in-Vietnam productshave yet to receive a warm reception.

Da Nang would become a modern and intelligent city thanks to processing information timely and quickly base on IT platform.

​Viet Nam should strengthen the management of businesses operating in the IT and Internet sector in order to curb the increasing hi-tech security threats.

Despite macroeconomic challenges, spending in Viet Nam for IT services increased 9.9 per cent to US$446 million in 2013, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC).

The Hanoi police on June 28 started legal proceedings against Viet Hong Company for selling spy software, affecting more than 14,000 mobile subscribers.

A new dragonfly species named Indocypha neglecta (Odonata: Chlorocyphidae) has been discovered in northern Vietnam, according to the journal Odonatologica, volume 43, in June 2014.

The findings of the 2014 MeConomy study show that young employees under the age of 32 are becoming less dependent on desktop PCs for work and becoming more versatile using other devices to do business.

Flappy Bird, a Vietnam-made mobile game, has been taken down from app stores by its developer. However, stories and images of the lovely bird have reappeared in sci-tech newspapers and forums these days.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has asked Vietsovpetro and PetroVietnam to prepare themselves for a possible hacker attack as it is said that international hackers plan to attack the companies’ networks.

Mai Van Binh, general director of Mobifone, one of the three largest mobile networks in Vietnam, has been appointed as the firm’s chair, replacing Mr. Le Ngoc Minh, before Mobifone separates from VNPT