Sales of Nvidia’s GPUs are soaring as AI and big data applications widen, signalling change for the semiconductor industry, and potential trouble for Intel.

Investment firm Silver Lake has closed a new $15 billion buyout fund for technology deals, as private equity continues to focus on the technology sector.

The American retail behemoth is redoubling its ecommerce strategy with Store No. 8, an in-house incubator for tech start-ups and partnerships.

With the $26.2 billion acquisition complete, an older and wiser Microsoft under CEO Satya Nadella is taking a different approach to integration this time around.

The war for tech talent is raging in Silicon Valley, with big public companies like Facebook, Amazon and Google not only offering sky-high salaries, but increasingly robust equity packages. Stock-based compensation in particular has ballooned in recent years. Such enticements are making it increasingly difficult for start-ups to compete for talent, while also driving up the amount of funding they need to raise, potentially squelching innovation in the region.

On the ever-changing personal technology landscape, a new class of devices is emerging: “hearables”, or smart earbuds and headphones, and smart speakers, such as Amazon’s Echo. Both use artificial intelligence to allow users to communicate with machines by voice, and have multiple uses, generally working in tandem with virtual assistants like Siri and Cortana. Analysts predict a sizable market, and competition is heating up among technology companies worldwide.

Looking to Africa, tech companies have grand ambitions of leapfrogging; that is, skipping past older technologies that were never implemented, straight to the newest. The thinking is that drones, for example, can compensate for a lack of roads. Mobile banking can replace functional banks, and solar panels eliminate the need for power stations. There have been remarkable successes. But there are also limits to leaping into the future without an infrastructure.

With mobile and cloud computing reshaping the tech industry, markets are changing drastically or disappearing altogether. Competition is fierce. Among Silicon Valley’s corporate computing icons, very different strategies are emerging: Dell, now called Dell Technologies, just completed a $67 billion merger with EMC, a cloud computing and data storage company. Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which sold its software assets to British IT firm Micro Focus for about $8.8 billion, is getting smaller.