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Facebook groups give friendships a shake-up

VietNamNet Bridge – With Facebook more readily available than ever before, people can use the social-networking tool for all manner of purposes. Some seek entertainment, others solidarity, opportunities or inspiration.

Facebook to buy firm specializing in voice translation

 Facebook has agreed to acquire Mobile Technologies, a firm specializing in voice translation software, the two companies said, without providing financial details of the transaction.

Seven students fined for offensive language on Facebook

 VietNamNet Bridge – Three students in the central city of Da Nang have been fined VND10 million (US$481) each and four others issued warnings, for slandering another student on Facebook.

Internet services laws tightened

VietNamNet Bridge – Companies that do not have a representative office in Viet Nam but allow Vietnamese users access to Facebook and Google, must adhere to Viet Nam's regulations and laws on the management, provision and use of Internet services

Facebook and the other side of the coin

 VietNamNet Bridge – Facebook has become a favorite by the people all over the world, but it has been disliked by Vietnamese parents, who believe that Facebook has corrupted their children.

Making apps: easily done, difficult to sell

The number of Vietnamese apps on Google Play, Appstore and Apple Store has been increasing in accordance with the number of mobile devices in use. Tens of thousands of apps have been made, but only 2 percent of them can bring money.

Children rebel on social networks - parents are helpless

 VietNamNet Bridge - Many parents were extremely surprised when they knew that their obedient children were completely different people on the net.

Hanoi: Schoolgirl commits suicide for engraft photo on Facebook

 VietNamNet Bridge - Just because her portrait was engrafted into the picture of a girl wearing an off-the-shoulder blouse, a newly high school graduate committed suicide with pesticide.

Local internet use surveyed

 VietNamNet Bridge – Up to 58 per cent of Vietnamese use the Internet with average time spent online at 16 hours per week, according to a recent survey by Nielsen Viet Nam on Internet use.

58% of Vietnamese use Internet: Nielsen

VietNamNet Bridge – There are up to 58% of Vietnamese using the Internet with an average using duration of 16 hours per week, according to a survey of Nielsen Vietnam on Internet use in four recent weeks.

Hi-tech gadgets impact on family relations

 VietNamNet Bridge – The internet helps people from very far-flung areas stay in touch with each other, but it also drives people who live in close proximity apart.

Anti-State campaigners sentenced

 VietNamNet Bridge – The People’s Court of southern Long An province on May 16 sentenced Dinh Nguyen Kha to ten years’ imprisonment and Nguyen Phuong Uyen to six years in prison

Youngsters color their Facebook in red by the Vietnam flag

These days, the online community has had a movement called "Coloring your Facebook by the Vietnamese flag" to celebrate the country’s Unification Day (April 30,) the May Day and the birthday of President Ho Chi Minh (May 19).

Billion-dollar market remains unreachable for Vietnamese digital content firms

The domestic digital content market, estimated to be worth billions of dollars, may be out of the reach of domestic enterprises if they cannot receive the appropriate support from the state.

Social network sites bring societal change

 VietNamNet Bridge – In a dimly lit and heavily decorated room of a cafe in downtown Ha Noi, Tran Manh Tien and his four friends share the same table and are all busy surfing the net on their mobile phones and iPads.

Facebook unveils Android software suite

 Facebook on Thursday unveiled a new mobile software suite which makes the social network the "home" of Android smartphones.

Netizens “stone” man with disrespectful photo

Vietnamese netizens are upset with a rude photo featuring a young man who posed on the statue of Emperor Ly Thai To, the founder of the Ly Dynasty.

Vietnamese social networks “short of breath” in the race with Facebook

In 2012, or three years after the day Vietnamese Zing Me announced it left Facebook behind in September 2009, Vietnam witnessed the enthronement of the foreign big social network in Vietnam.

Female student calls teacher “a monster”

Teachers complain that the democracy and the new education methods all have corrupted students nowadays. The students who insult teachers could only be the products of the modern times.

Facebook's new search product not threat to Google in near term: analysts

Facebook's newly unveiled search tool has the potential to generate revenue but is unlikely to challenge the core business of Google in the near term, analysts said Wednesday.