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.

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

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

A consortium led by US private equity firm Advent International will pay $14 billion for the cyber security firm established by tech entrepreneur John McAfee in 1987.

Apple lost the title of ‘the most valuable company in the world’ to Microsoft after its fourth quarter revenue failed to meet expectations.

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.