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France’s Ubisoft, one of the four largest video game companies in the world, officially opened an office in the central city of Da Nang on June 8.

A hackathon has been launched to look for innovative ideas in education, healthcare, information and economics to tackle the COVID-19 epidemic.

The young generation of Vietnam is making the effort to protect the environment, but not merely by clearing garbage and limiting reducing plastic waste.

Robot3T Group of Ho Chi Minh City designs and builds cost-effective robotics and automation products and solutions to meet small and medium-sized enterprises’ emerging needs for smart manufacturing systems.

Vietnam will lack from 70,000 to 90,000 information and technology (IT) workers this year despite increasing salary and welfare, according to a TopDev, a recruitment network and ecosystem in mobile and IT, reports on the IT market in Vietnam.

Two Vietnamese teams and nine others from Japan competed in the final of Pikalong War, a contest for programmers, in Tokyo on October 27.

Romania is looking to begin recruiting IT specialists from Asian countries like Vietnam for temporary contracts of up to two years to fulfill a shortage in the local workforce.

More than 100 programmers have recently joined the “Vietnam Mobile Hackathon” programme organised by Google.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Vietnam and HATCH! VENTURES – a social enterprise and startup incubator – announced the SGDs Challenge 2017” competition in Hanoi on July 12.

As more start-ups have been established, HCM City’s labour demand has increased, with 25,000 permanent and 7,000 temporary jobs that need to be filled in June.

FPT Corporation, a Vietnamese IT company, and French enterprises are hoped to sign cooperation deals, especially in information and technology service supply.

FPT Corporation may complete its divestment from FPT Trading and FPT Retail sub-units in 2017, officials said at the company’s annual shareholder meeting.

A shortage of high-quality labourers has caused headaches for a range of software companies in central Da Nang City that wanted to do business with foreign countries.

Vietnamese exports of software have risen dramatically but sales in the domestic market fell during the 2011-2015 economic downturn, according to the Vietnam Software Association (VINASA).

The Government has made good progress in building legal documents but the work needs to be further accelerated in 2016, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

Winners of Hackathon for Social Good, a 48-hour coding contest to create useful technology products with commercial values for society, were honoured at a ceremony in Hanoi on November 24.

About 100 programmers, developers and social activists gathered in Hackathon for Social Good, a 48-hour coding contest to create useful technology products with commercial values for the society.

Developing apps for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets has been one of the most dynamic fields in Vietnam, and the mobile sector’s development has been considered the strongest.