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Text-based social media grows in first quarter

Text-based social media grows in first quarter

The report notes that as text-based platforms have demonstrated initial growth, early adopters of new platforms can gain significant advantages and have ample opportunities for experimentation.
HCM City to lead the way in developing e-commerce on social media

HCM City to lead the way in developing e-commerce on social media

HCM City is set to become the pioneer among provinces and cities in Việt Nam in devising a comprehensive scheme for developing e-commerce on social media. 
Consumers rely on social media for product research before making purchase decisions: Report

Consumers rely on social media for product research before making purchase decisions: Report

There is a huge appetite for social media across the Asia Pacific region, with 60 per cent of the world’s social media users coming from the region, including Việt Nam, according to a report released by DoubleVerify, a software platform...
Homemade social media platform boom to inspire Make in Viet Nam upbeat outlook

Homemade social media platform boom to inspire "Make in Viet Nam" upbeat outlook

Lotus made debut early this week, making it the fourth homegrown social media platform launched in the last four months.
Comprehensive policy needed in time of digital communication economy: forum

Comprehensive policy needed in time of digital communication economy: forum

Social media spreads information and disinformation rapidly, exerting a big influence on the public and businesses, and so the Government needs to have policies in place to manage and regulate it, a senior academic has said.
Viet Nam a digital advertisers dream

Viet Nam a digital advertiser's dream

More than 51 million Vietnamese access the internet, social media and apps through their smartphones daily, according to a recently released report by Appota Corporation.
AI can help small businesses expand, improve productivity

AI can help small businesses expand, improve productivity

The use of Artificial intelligence (AI) by small- and medium-sized enterprises could help them expand their business scale, the CEO of the Social Media Command Centre said at a seminar on November 22 in HCM City.
Authorities slap social media profiteers with tax bill

Authorities slap social media profiteers with tax bill

The HCM City tax department served a tax notice and slapped a fine on an individual together amounting to VND4.1 billion for failure to pay tax on incomes received from foreign companies in the last two years.
Mainstream media remains key platform in digital era: experts

Mainstream media remains key platform in digital era: experts

Though new media platforms such as social media have become increasingly popular, mainstream media remains the major channel to promote the growing business community in Viet Nam, speakers said at a forum held on June 29 in HCM City.
South Korea tops internet usage in Asia

South Korea tops internet usage in Asia

Fact-tank PEW’s newest research says while the gap in internet usage between emerging and advanced economies is narrowing, there are still large swaths of the world where significant numbers of citizens do not use the internet.  
Cyber experts warn on social media

Cyber experts warn on social media

Cybersecurity experts have advised users not to share private information on social media networks in light of a recent incident in which some 50 million Facebook users’ information was collected without their consent.
Agency to tax e-commerce like other businesses

Agency to tax e-commerce like other businesses

The HCM City Tax Department plans to continue to collect taxes from online businesses that use Facebook and other social media sites.
Social media could give SMEs global reach: experts

Social media could give SMEs global reach: experts

Small- and medium-sized enterprises, which make up 90 per cent of businesses in Viet Nam, should take advantage of new marketing tools like social media to have access to global value chains.
City officials seek tax on sales via Facebook

City officials seek tax on sales via Facebook

HCM City officials are seeking ways to collect taxes from small- and home-based business owners who are selling merchandise on social media, such as Facebook, in a bid to reduce tax losses in the municipal budget.
Technology plays crucial role in finance management

Technology plays crucial role in finance management

Technology jumped from the fifth position in 2010 to the third in 2013 in the list of external factors having the greatest impact on enterprises in the near future.