Vietnam’s software firms are no longer satisfied with outsourcing for foreign partners. They have shifted to conduct research and develop products of their own.

 Japanese developers of a robot are asking the public to come up with ideas for what their waist-high humanoid can do and they are offering a software development kit for programmers to get creative.

 Vietnam has reaped many successes in developing the software industry, but to expand the market of software products, it must pay more attention to human resources and product development.

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