Foreign experts have urged Vietnam to build and carry out a national strategy on broadband development, stressing that it will be the key to help Vietnam become an information technology (IT) power in the world. Several days ago Vietnam announced an ambitious plan to become an information technology power in the world and verbally committed [...]
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Broadband will help create a “miracle on the Red River”
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Google’s VP of payments: Mobile commerce still needs “big leap forward”
More...The tech industry still has a lot to do if it wants users to pay for goods with smartphones and tablets. To get consumers to convert to mobile payments, the payment system needs to go digital, says Google VP of payments Osama Bedier. Credit cards, debit cards, and gift cards all need to move into [...]
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Color Looks To Reinvent Social Interaction With Its Mobile Photo App (And $41 Million In Funding)
More...$41 million. From Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank. Pre-launch. That’s how much a brand new startup called Color has to work with. Your eyebrows should already be raised, and here’s something to keep them fixed there: this is the most money Sequoia has ever invested in a pre-launch startup. Or, as the [...]
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Microsoft’s Vietnam Partner FPT Aims to Combine Units, Focus on Software
More...FPT Corp. (FPT), Vietnam’s biggest publicly traded telecommunications and software company, said it plans to combine its technology units and focus on restoring the annual earnings growth rate to more than 30 percent. FPT will consolidate five subsidiaries — FPT Information System, FPT Telecom Corp., FPT Software, FPT Online and FPT Trading Group — with [...]
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The Top 50 Venture-Backed Companies
More...Venture capitalists are betting that the next Google Inc. or Facebook Inc. will have a name like Xactly, Chegg or Zoosk. In what may be a sign of a re-inflating Web bubble, The Wall Street Journal’s second annual ranking of 50 venture-capital-backed companies shows investors are chasing after Internet firms, many with a consumer focus. [...]