Eight groups of students from eight universities nationwide will gather for the final battle of the Digital Race, an annual technology contest organised by FPT, taking place this Wednesday at Cau Giay Stadium in Ha Noi.

 After years minding local farmers’ hardship and being motivated by the passion for mechanics, a young man in Chuong My District, Hanoi manufactured a multi-task farming machine which can be used on different terrains.

 Military-run mobile carrier Viettel is planning to expand its footprint to Nigeria and Indonesia, accessing a total of 450 million people in the two countries, nearly doubling the total population of its existing investment markets.

 A thematic seminar on the close linkage between IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) and the Internet of Things (IoT) industry took place in Hanoi on May 5. 

 Vietnam’s University of Transport Technology (UTT) and Sapa Thale Company of Germany on May 5 signed an agreement on cooperation in training, human resources development, scientific research and transport technology transfer. 

 Mr. Dinh Viet Hung has found success in popularizing his IT product not only in Vietnam but also internationally.

 Vietnam will develop basic science in four fields, namely chemistry, life science, Earth science, and maritime science in an effort to bring the national science up to regional standard by 2025.

 Microsoft on Thursday informed employees in Viet Nam it is enhancing its family leave benefits to ensure they have time to care for the people who matter most in their lives.

 There are currently about one million Vietnamese domain names issued and Viet Nam is among the top countries in terms of internationalised domain name distribution in the world, according to Government portal chinhphu.vn.

 The 1st Exhibition of Electronics, Telecommunications, Information Technology 2017 will be held on May 11-12.

More Vietnamese mobile internet users access social networks daily than any other activity with their device, reported Appota in its report on the Vietnamese mobile market.

 A number of email addresses that impersonate the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT), and are used for stealing customer payments, were identified by the mobile network provider Vinaphone on Wednesday.

 Viettel Global Investment JSC (Viettel Global) targets increasing its customers in foreign markets by 12.9 million in 2017, bringing the total to more than 50 million.

 Software and website designers from Asia, including Vietnam, will gather in Hanoi on May 18-19 to compete in the APEC App Challenge. 

 Microsoft officially launched Microsoft Teams - the chat-based workspace in Office 365, on Thursday in Viet Nam.

 Facebook has been asked to increase cooperation with Vietnam to block and remove bad content and fake news in this social network.

 This year’s Vietnam Mobile Day event in Ho Chi Minh City on May 20, in Hanoi on May 27, and in Da Nang on June 3 will cover more than 100 topics in mobile business trends such as mobile e-commerce, mobile business, and mobile technology.

 The information technology (IT) sector is entering a hot growth period. However, Vietnam’s IT human resources are alarmingly lacking both in quantity and quality, as commented by deputy prime minister Vu Duc Dam.

 The three-member Vietnamese team, EDMTDevDTU, from Duy Tan University in Da Nang City competed in the Southeast Asia regional finals of Microsoft Imagine Cup 2017 in Manila, the Philippines.

Viettel Tanzania Limited Company (Halotel) is completing an IPO prospectus and corporate valuation in preparation for its IPO filing on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE) in Tanzania this month, Viettel Global reported.