Facebook has been sued by European regulators for breaching our privacy, and it’s only going to get worse

Tech giant is under pressure in China — and though the iPhone still produces two-thirds of its revenue, its rivals are closing in

The tech story of the year has been the realisation that social media uses our personal data for someone else’s financial gain

Voicemail, that old hallmark of the voice-centric era, is dead. But the era of app-centric voice messaging is very much alive

New minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has her work cut out to reinvigorate this essential part of the economy

Is it a Ponzi scheme or the herald of a new world order? We may need another 10 years to find out

Troll target Hillary Clinton and her husband, Bill, were well qualified to warn us about the downside of the internet

A year without the biggest social network on my phone has made me a freer person

Apple’s CEO warns that the exploitation of personal data has reached crisis level and it’s time to fight back

The debate about whether an algorithm will replace your job is becoming more and more pertinent

WeChat is ubiquitous in China, yet its owner’s stock has plummeted, due mainly to a ban on new mobile games

Founders of Instagram and WhatsApp vote with their feet as Mark Zuckerberg seeks to squeeze apps for more revenue

In the wake of the latest scandal there can be no excuses about whose fault it was that 50m users had their accounts hacked

Twitter laughed off the idea of using the symbol when it was first suggested, and now it’s a global internet phenomenon

A month after Apple passed $1-trillion, Amazon has also reached the magical 13-digit valuation figure