142 illegal games removed from Apple, Google app stores in Vietnam

Vietnam will block payments Google makes for YouTube content that violates its laws as it seeks to force the company to follow local regulations.

Vietnamese authorities say Google has failed to control its ad content and that YouTube videos continue carrying illegal content.

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd may have a chance to strengthen its position in the smartphone market due to the hurt caused to Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, according to Fitch Ratings.

Worried Vietnamese owners of Huawei smartphones are considering switching brands after Google suspended business ties with the Chinese brand.

Alphabet Inc’s Google has suspended business with Huawei that requires the transfer of hardware, software and technical services except those publicly available via open source licensing.

Foreign firms like Facebook and Google dominate the digital ad market in Vietnam but pay no taxes, a minister says.

Vietnam is among the five biggest global markets for YouTube, a representative of the video-sharing website said Wednesday.

Google's global free wi-fi initiative Google Station has come to Vietnam and is currently available at several universities in Hanoi, Da Nang and HCMC.

The Chinese video app TikTok is no longer available in Google and Apple app stores in India after a state court prohibited its downloads.

Tech giants have reacted with horror after Singapore proposed laws against "fake news" allowing authorities to order the removal of content and impose fines.

Google will support Vietnamese startups with cloud services worth up to $100,000 each to help them go global.

Google Doodle features the late musical genius Trinh Cong Son on his 80th birthday Thursday, the first Vietnamese it has so honored.

ELSA has raised $7 million in a Series-A round from Google’s AI Fund Gradient Ventures and other U.S. investors.