On his Twitter, Philipp Rösler showed a photo taken in front of a Hanoi fashion store with an attached note, ‘My friend said this store is like me: Made in Vietnam’.

VietNamNet Bridge - The plan to build Da Nang Information Technology Park, which is part of Vietnam’s dream to create its own Silicon Valley, remains on paper. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi, HCM City, Da Lat and Da Nang are all believed to have natural and human conditions to become the Silicon Valleys of Vietnam.

 Ellen Pao, the woman who took a Silicon Valley firm to court over sexism claims and lost, has been asked to pay legal costs of nearly $1m (£660,000).

The emergence and expansion of international technology corporations in Vietnam in the past two years shows an important shift in investment. The Vice President of the Vietnam Association of Foreign Investment Enterprise talks about this trend.

 Three of the five largest mobile handset companies in the world are from one country and it's not the US.

 A Silicon Valley city has designated the boyhood home of Steve Jobs an "historic resource" due to the way the legendary Apple co-founder went on to change the world.

 Apple's shares climbed ahead of an expected move on Tuesday to expand the iPhone domain with a pair of new models, including one aimed at China.

 The idealists who founded some of the most successful technology companies now find themselves entangled in controversy over the vast US government surveillance program denounced as Orwellian.