Huge Group chief financial officer Zunaid Bulbulia – a former CEO of MTN South Africa – has resigned, the telecommunications company told shareholders on Monday.

Data breaches continued to be a major issue for the public in 2018 with a series of serious cases ranging from retailers to social networks, resulting in millions of personal records being compromised.

MTN Group CEO Rob Shuter has been granted more than R38-million in shares under the telecommunications operator’s performance share plan. The shares will vest in three years’ time.

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.

China’s alternative to the US-owned GPS extended its coverage beyond the Asia-Pacific region with a goal of becoming a dominating technology in the future, spurring gains in shares of related companies.