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Telecom
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StarHub Earns Cisco Certifications, Boosts Tech Leadership

These accomplishments showcase StarHub’s ability to provide secure, scalable IT and customer engagement solutions with extensive expertise and a strong service delivery record. With Cisco‘s enhanced technologies, StarHub is better prepared to assist…

PLDT Philippines
Telecom
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PLDT Strengthens Digital Growth with Data Center Expansion

PLDT Chief Operating Officer, Menardo Butch G. Jimenez, emphasized the increasing potential of tech-focused telcos in the region’s changing digital landscape. He mentioned, “We have already built 10 data centers and are finishing our 11th and biggest…

maxis malaysia
Telecom
2 min read

Maxis Partners with Nokia to Modernize Data Center Infrastructure

The deployment will support Maxis’s business growth by providing a scalable, secure, and efficient data center architecture. The modernization of Maxis’s data center connectivity technology will help the company simplify its network operations, solve issues…

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Telecom
2 min read

IFC and Partners Invest USD 900 Million in Malaysia Data Center

The consortium, which includes DBS, Deutsche Bank, Global Infrastructure Partners (BlackRock subsidiary), HSBC, ING, and Natixis CIB, joined IFC in funding the first phase of the project in Johor Bahru. This initial 98-megawatt facility is part of a larger…

fiber optic
Telecom
1 min read

Nokia to Equip Viettel with Optical Transport Solution

This initiative aims to meet the increasing demand for 5G, Data Center Interconnect (DCI), and cross-border connectivity. The collaboration follows a successful trial during which Nokia’s PSE-6s achieved a record transmission speed of 1.2 Tbps per wavelength…

startup elsa
Living
2 min read

IT jobs often fall off after 35 years old

Information technology education in Vietnam tends to focus on breadth rather than depth, so few people can or choose to stay in the field after turning 35. Recently, I came across a reader’s account sharing an interesting perspective. According to this…

NVIDIA TV
General
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Nvidia aims to set up a base in Vietnam

Nvidia wishes to establish a base in Vietnam to develop the country’s semiconductor industry as it considers the Vietnamese market an important one, the Vietnamese government said, citing the U.S. chipmaker’s chief executive. In his first visit to the…

startup hub
Living
2 min read

IT workers surplus to plans for many companies

Many IT employees are being laid off or forced to quit and struggling to find new jobs due to a decline in demand due to the economic downturn. After a payment project was unexpectedly canceled in July as the company, a big tech brand in HCMC, no longer had…

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Research
2 min read

Poor training makes up to 200,000 IT engineers unemployable

A gap between IT engineers’ skill levels and market requirements is making 150,000-200,000 of them unemployable every year, a report by IT jobs platform TopDev warns. The recently published “Vietnamese IT market report in 2023” on TopDev says most recruiters…

startup
General
1 min read

IT services fetch FPT $1B in 2022

At over VND25.5 trillion (US$1.09 billion), information and technology accounted for 58% of tech giant FPT’s revenues last year. Pre-tax profits were up 22.2% at VND3.42 trillion, or 45% of total profits. Revenues shot up by 23.4% to VND44 trillion and…