25-03-2024 09:28
Apple, Google and Meta are set to face the EU's wrath next week as Brussels prepares to hit the tech giants with probes into potential violations of a landmark law, sources close to the matter said Friday.
20-03-2024 15:43
French regulators said Wednesday they were fining Google 250 million euros ($272 million) for breaching an agreement on terms for paying media companies for reproducing their content online.
17-01-2024 09:05
Google on Tuesday confirmed it is eliminating "a few hundred" positions from its global ad team, amid a push to use artificial intelligence for efficiency and creativity.
02-01-2024 12:29
Google has agreed to settle a consumer privacy lawsuit seeking at least $5 billion in damages over allegations it tracked the data of users who thought they were browsing the internet privately.
15-11-2023 10:56
The latest e-Conomy Southeast Asia report “Reaching New Heights, Navigating the Path to Profitable Growth” sheds light on the digital economy in the region. Marc Woo, managing director for Vietnam at Google Asia-Pacific, spoke with VIR’s Hai Van about the findings.
30-10-2023 11:44
Fortinet, the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, on October 16 announced the expansion of its SASE Points-of-Presence (POPs) to new locations through a partnership with Google Cloud.
29-10-2023 11:00
Thousands of scholarships have been delivered to students in the Vietnam Digital Talent programme.
26-10-2023 23:00
Generative AI applications have huge potential to revolutionise working practices across public and private sectors across Vietnam, according to a Google conference held last week.
18-09-2023 17:58
The International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) is to receive $2 million in funding and additional support from Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, to provide children with a safer journey to school.
31-08-2023 12:54
Vietnam ranked first in Southeast Asia in terms of the growth rate in demand for foreign travel, at 170 per cent in the second quarter of 2023 compared to the same period in 2019, Google announced on August 30.
09-08-2023 11:45
Facebook, Google, and TikTok removed a significant amount of content that violated the law in July, meeting about 90 per cent of the requirements laid out by Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC).
31-07-2023 09:06
Four Vietnamese app developers have been spotlighted among the Top 50 global companies, boasting new applications that have each garnered over 100,000 downloads in 2022. This noteworthy development was outlined in a recent report by the data analytics firms, DataAI and AppMagic.
24-07-2023 11:30
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) in Vietnam has reported that prominent foreign tech companies, including Google, Apple, Facebook, Netflix, TikTok, made substantial tax contributions, amounting to around $166 million during the first half of 2023. This development comes as the tax authority intensifies efforts to streamline tax collection in the rapidly expanding e-commerce sector.
14-07-2023 17:00
Google launched its AI chatbot Bard in the European Union and several more nations on Thursday, entering a key market in its race against Microsoft-backed ChatGPT after a delay over data privacy concerns.
12-07-2023 17:37
Vietnam is becoming one of South East Asia's rising startup hubs as its online economy is forecasted to grow to US$50 billion by 2025.