VNG Corporation

Zuni is an online non-profit education project operated and invested by VNG and VNIF, which was officially published in March 2014.[10] In June 2014, Zuni has nearly 124,000 members with more than 4,000 members active every day. Zuni was evaluated as one of the competent education projects right after its publishing, with 1466 exam samples, 618 video lectures and 124 major topics available currently.[10]

Zing MP3, a music streaming service, was launched in August 2007, currently consisting of 2 versions: website and app on the iOS, Android and Windows Phone platforms. Zing MP3 application on smartphones has been one of the few most frequently downloaded ones in Vietnam in the past few years. When it was brought onto the mobile platform, Zing MP3 was an outstanding app of Vietnam with over 5 million downloads on Android [11]

• VNG is one of the four main game publishers in the Vietnamese market.
• Produce, develop and globally publish online games as well as import and publish well-known games in the local market.
• Highlighted products: Sky Garden, Play Together VNG, Võ Lâm Truyền Kỳ, Crossfire Legend, 360 Games, Metal Gear: Awakening

Zing Me is a social network operated by VNG, which was introduced in August 2009. It is integrated directly via the Zing system with a variety of special applications like blogging, photo and music sharing, gaming, video clips, email. In addition, Zing Me was the first social network in Vietnam that had the properties of a platform. It allows the third-party developing apps which use common infrastructure and sharing users via opening API (Application Programing Interface) in order to diversify the system contents. In March 2010, Zing Me launched its first version for mobile phones.[12] After two year of releasing, Zing Me reached its 8.2 million-user milestone in October 2011.[13] Not only does Zing Me allow users to share their status updates and blog, it also allows them to communicate via photos, voices and emoticons. Zing Me is getting popular with more than one million photos shared by users everyday since June 2013.[14]

Zalo is a free message and call application on mobile and desktop released on 8 August 2012 for iOS, Android, Windows Phone.

At the end of May, VTV used Zalo as a bridge for the community to share their feelings and thoughts and send messages of encouragement to the people and soldiers on duty in Spratly Islands.

Zalo charges users and limits some features for general users From August 1, 2022, Zalo charges users, for free accounts, certain features will be limited. Immediately after that, Zalo received many 1-star reviews on the App Store and Google Play, and was banned. Many users boycotted and threatened to delete the application.

In order to meet the needs of using internally as well as developing the external market, in 2010, VNG invested in R&D for an Online Payment Platform called 123Pay. This product is inherited and developed on the payment platform of ZingPay (a payment platform used for online games of VNG since 2005).

Up-to-date digital payment and personal payment platforms: mobile wallet Zalopay.[15]

Laban Key is a Vietnamese keyboard for mobile devices developed by VNG. It was introduced in September 2013 by the Project Manager Pham Kim Long, who is also the developer of the Windows input method editor UniKey.

Cyber Station Manager (CSM) is a free software from VNG for managing Internet agencies. The first version of CSM was published by VNG on 2 February 2006. CSM is the most popular managing internet shops in Vietnam with over 60% of market share and over 2 million downloads every day. There are 25,000 Internet shops nationwide using CSM to manage play time, extra services, game updates, and automatic applications.

CSM is also got certified for offering national standards TCVN 8702:2011 as in Certificate of Conformance no. B0001310314CS01A3 on 31 March 2014. This Certificate of Conformance is awarded based on the most updated procedures issued in Decision no. 350/QĐ-CVT (new) on September 12, 2013, by Vietnam Telecommunications Authority – Vietnam Ministry of Information and Communications, a substitute for Decision no 75/QĐ-QLCL.[16] In addition, CSM won the Sao Khue Award in the years of 2009, 2012 and 2014.[17]

• Provide full-stack cloud services for organizations and businesses with smart tech solutions linked through Internet connection and cloud technology.
• Highlighted products: 123CS, Cloud server, IoT HUB, vCloudStack[18]

In December 2010, the inspectors of HCMC Department of Information and Communications required VinaGame that they must eliminate violence in online games. The game "Sudden Attack" was closed in HCMC on 17 October 2011.[19]

The Inspectors examined VNG's conformity to computer software copyright laws leading to an official announcement to charge VinaGame 10 million dong as a fine for copyright infringement.

In addition, the inspectors ordered VinaGame to take down the infringed software and to commit to contacting the authors to discuss the legitimacy. After receiving the decision from the Ministry of Culture - Sports and Tourism, VinaGame had to examine every single computer currently in use, prepare a list, and pay copyright fees for the software that was work-related.[20]

In August 2007, when accessing Zing MP3, a musical entertainment tool, popular Vietnamese artists such as Bao Thy, Dan Truong, Duy Manh, Cam Ly, and even Thu Phuong and Bang Kieu (of which neither of them was allowed to publish songs in Vietnam) were. According to some lawyers, the websites, which enable searching, collecting and displaying songs, and allow online listening, infringe copyrights.[21]

On 23 and 24 February 2009 inspectors discovered a software copyright infringement worth VND 5 billion (around US$295,000) during a sudden raid on Vinagame headquarters in Ho Chi Minh City.[22]

In August 2020, VNG sued TikTok for $9.5 million on allegations of copyright infringement.[23]