21-05-2019 09:17
Shares of technology companies fell sharply on Monday (May 20) in down session for Wall Street after Google began to severe ties with Chinese telecom giant Huawei amid the US-China trade war.
21-05-2019 09:09
Google is blocking Huawei from some updates to the Android operating system, in a blow to the world’s second-biggest smartphone maker.
13-03-2019 12:30
Google’s Gmail and Driver report problems as Google says applications were experiencing ‘issues’, causing many users around the world report that they cannot send mail, download files, view files on Google online tools such as Gmail, Drive, and the Play app store on March 13.
11-03-2019 13:40
More than 50 leading US companies from a wide range of industries would arrive in Hanoi on Tuesday to explore business opportunities, the US-ASEAN Business Council has announced.
05-03-2019 20:32
BRUSSELS: Internet giant Google on Monday (Mar 4) urged the European Parliament to resist approving a planned overhaul of the bloc's online copyright law that the company said would hurt Europe for "decades to come".
08-02-2019 09:00
A surge in information technology and cloud computing, as well as major smartphone coverage are considered to be the key enablers for Vietnam to develop its digital economy. How can these areas be maximised effectively and efficiently? Thanh Thu reports.
26-01-2019 15:00
Vietnam’s newly-effective Law on Cybersecurity provides for far-reaching scope of targets, defined as “enterprises providing services on telecommunication networks, Internet, value-added services in the cyberspace”. It may be understood that social network and web companies like Facebook and Google may be obliged to comply with this new law. Vaibhav Saxena, legal consultant of Vietnam International Law Firm, provides a deep analysis about the possible impacts on business and investors.
25-01-2019 12:02
The possibility of an international deal to tax US tech giants such as Amazon, Google and Facebook is sensitive, as countries threaten to go it alone and Europe is divided on the issue.
10-01-2019 00:00
Vietnam is not only a “dragon being unleashed” by virtue of its flourishing digital economy, as Google and Singaporean state investment fund Temasek have assessed in their recent report. The country is more than that, in the eyes of Jack Ma, a billionaire and the founder of the largest Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba, Vietnam is the “new gold mine” that has grabbed the whole world’s attention. Huu Tuan reports.
22-12-2018 09:19
Facebook and Google have just agreed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for their violation of Washington State’s Law on Advertising.
19-12-2018 10:04
US President Donald Trump took a swipe on Tuesday (Dec 18) at America's tech giants, accusing them of having a liberal bias, and claiming Twitter was making it more difficult to follow his account.
12-12-2018 09:18
Google is researching the procedures for opening a representative office in Vietnam to ensure that its compliance with local regulations is in line with its international commitments, Senior Vice President Ken Walker has said.
07-12-2018 15:21
Social media giants and major tech enterprises are coming under fire from multiple sides as governments are managing to collect their dues, and business partners and users are decrying the unregulated and oftentimes harmful content. Kim Huong reports.
07-12-2018 08:00
As new marketing tools based on Big Data and artificial intelligence are being developed to help businesses’ marketing strategies succeed, Le Quoc Vinh, chairman and CEO of Le Invest (Holdings) Corporation, talked with VIR’s Van Anh about the powers turning the wheels of advertising.
22-11-2018 17:00
The Vietnamese internet economy has almost tripled in three years to reach US$9 billion in 2018, driven by e-commerce and online media, a new report released by Google and Temasek showed.