The year 2018 will be remembered as a trying one for the technology industry, as data scandals and calls for increased regulation dominated the agenda.

The markets may be tanking, but that hasn’t stopped plenty of mega-fortunes from being unearthed in 2018.

China has approved 80 new videogame titles in the first batch of licences granted by the media regulator after the end of a nine-month freeze.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he was “proud of the progress we’ve made” fighting misinformation and protecting users’ personal data during one of the company’s most tumultuous years.

South Africa has successfully launched into space the continent’s most advanced nanosatellite to date, the ZACube-2.

Huge Group is hiring senior Reunert executive Andy Openshaw as its new chief operating officer. He will join Huge when his restraints of trade with Reunert are either waived or fulfilled.