The rupture of two undersea cable lines Asia-America Gateway (AAG) and Intra-Asia (IA) in waters off Hong Kong’s coast on August 28 has insignificant impacts on Internet traffic in Vietnam, said domestic Internet service providers.

 There are pay gaps among application groups, programming languages, and scope of work, according to a report from VietnamWorks and TopITworks on Salary in Information Technology in mid-2017.

 E-commerce revenue in Vietnam is forecast to reach $2.1 billion this year and with annual growth of 6.5 per cent is expected to hit $4 billion in 2021, according to Statistic Portal.

Mobile World Investment Corporation (MWG)’s shareholders agreed with an 85.93 per cent approval rate to spend VND2.5 trillion ($110 million) on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the coming period.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended a ceremony in Hanoi on August 28 to launch the Vietnam Innovation Golden Book 2017.

 The 4th industrial revolution with the rapid advancement of the cyber network and digital technology has brought great changes.

 The Bkav Technology Group has spent VND500 billion (nearly US$22 million) since 2009 on researching and producing the indigenous smart phone called Bphone, its CEO Nguyen Tu Quang has revealed.

Electronics retailer Tran Anh Digital is seeking its shareholders’ approval to sell a 25 per cent stake to Mobile World, paving the way for a merger into the latter company.

Three international submarine cables, the Asia-America Gateway (AAG), the Intra Asia (IA) and the Southeast Asia-Middle East-Western Europe (SMW3), have broken down, affecting Vietnam’s external internet connection.

 The Vietnam Internet Network Information Centre (VNNIC) urged that the management and oversight of websites using international domain names be strengthened to prevent violations.

 A group of university students from the southern province of Dong Nai have won the Asia-Pacific robot contest, known as Robocon, held in Tokyo, Japan.

 The Party Central Committee’s Commission for Economic Affairs will host Smart Industry World 2017, the first of its kind in Viet Nam, on December 4-5.

SAP, an enteprise application software provider will be able to help customers "make everything digital, programmable and smarter" through its use of a digital core, bold technologies of the future, and expertise in enterprise resource planning.

Vietnam’s UNESCO on August 24 signed an agreement to establish two category 2 centres for mathematics and physics.

 Vietnam’s first astronomical observatory will be put into operation in September in the central province of Khanh Hoa.

Local digital content firms are claiming of unfair treatment compared to their foreign peers.

Trung Nam Group has restarted construction of the Da Nang Information Technology Park in Hoa Vang district after an agreement to buy a 65 percent stake from Rocky Lai & Associates Inc.

 LG Electronics Vietnam showed off “wallpaper” thin LG Signature OLED W Television for the first time in HCM City on August 15, announcing its 2.57mm-thin panel is the thinnest in Vietnam.

Vietnam is facing a severe shortage of IT workers though there is a large number of universities and colleges teaching IT nationwide, heard a conference on IT human resource development on Friday.

 An international scientific conference on flavour physics opened on August 14, in the central city of Quy Nhon, as part of the on-going Rencontres du Vietnam 2017, a series of scientific events held annually in Vietnam.