The latest threats to humankind inspired people with innovative thinking and resilient mindsets to come up with clever technology fixes.

The SA-born Elon Musk, who is the richest man in the world and CEO of Tesla, struck a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion.

EU lawmakers finalise the structure of the Digital Markets Act, which threatens the power of the big tech firms.

The company’s plan to acquire British chip designer Arm for $40 billion has been abandoned due to difficulty in getting regulatory approval.

The company is set to buy Call of Duty video game maker Activision Blizzard for $68 billion.

Based on its partner network investment, skills demand, new strategy and growing overall market, Google Cloud is still a viable competitor in the enterprise cloud market.

Cerner is a provider of digital information systems used within hospitals and health systems.

What kind of world are we creating where an AI learns to fit our companionship requirements?

The international market was dominated by the increasing involvement of the investment community in the ICT sector, with a feverish merger/acquisition scene.

The combined entity, now called TD Synnex, becomes the industry’s largest IT distributor, reaching over 100 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

A US jury has awarded the company and several related firms $300 million in damages after a second patent trial against Apple.

The company has closed its $27.7 billion acquisition of Slack.

The big tech players are under scrutiny as separate investigations get under way by Britain’s competition watchdog, Germany's anti-trust watchdog and the European Union.