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.

The popular video platform has erupted onto the scene as a standout during the Covid-19 lockdown, but mirroring its meteoric rise could be an equally dramatic decline, even if remote working becomes more widely adopted post-pandemic.

The companies agreed to merge their British businesses in a $38 billion deal.

Accenture, Apple, NetApp and Cisco Systems are among the companies continuing on their acquisition paths.

The pandemic dominates the local and international ICT markets, and is likely to do so for the foreseeable future.

MTN Uganda agrees to pay $100 million for the renewal of its operating licence that expired in October 2018.

IBM takes Airbnb to court, claiming the illegal use of patents, the latest in a string of suits against online companies involving historic and arguably broad innovations.