The Department of Information Technology estimated that the total turnover in the information technology industry reached more than US$8.5 billion in 2011, at a national conference held in Hanoi last weekend.
Turnover in the electronics hardware sector topped $6.3 billion, up nearly 12 percent over the previous year; turnover in software crossed $1.1 billion, up by 6 percent; and turnover of digital content was nearly $1.1 billion, up by 17 percent year on year.