The company will acquire Nuance Communications, an artificial intelligence and speech technology company, for $19.7 billion.

The company acquired Cirrus, fable+, GRA and REPL Group, and has agreed to buy Cygni and Pollux.

The US, UK and EU will open probes into Nvidia’s $40 billion acquisition of Arm.

The Internet giant has completed its $2.1 billion acquisition of wearable device maker Fitbit.

The US Federal Trade Commission and nearly every US state have filed antitrust lawsuits against Facebook, accusing it of using a ‘buy or bury’ strategy to snap up rivals and keep smaller competitors at bay.

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the technology industry continued to thrive, with worldwide growth of 4% predicted for 2021.

Ant Group’s planned $37 billion initial public offering in China and Hong Kong was suspended with just days to go.

The company will list its IT infrastructure services unit as a separate company with a new name, by the end of 2021.

The company is expected to agree to a deal for a stake in TikTok’s US operations.

Adobe, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, Nvidia, PayPal and Zoom are among the 25 companies into which SoftBank has invested a total of $3.9 billion.

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other social media will now be subject to EU rules on hate speech and harmful content under new European Commission guidelines.

Google is accused of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their Internet use through browsers set in ‘private’ mode.