Global semiconductor revenue increased by 26.3% year-on-year in 2021, the technology analyst firm Gartner says, adding that this brought the dollar figure to US$595 billion ($802 billion).



Tesla chief executive Elon Musk says his offer to buy Twitter for about US$43 billion ($58 billion), and take it private, is driven by a desire for the public good.

Bitdefender has unveiled GravityZone XDR, a native extended detection and response solution that correlates disparate threat directions from endpoints, applications, cloud, identity sources, and networks into a single actionable view. It is available as a SaaS solution and through Bitdefender MDR services.

Freelancing and crowdsourcing online job marketplace Freelancer.com has released its quarterly Fast 50 index for Q1 2022, which reveals that based on data from 351,000 jobs posted on its website, jobs for NFTs were the leading growth category, seeing a 37% increase from 2,045 to 2,814 jobs.

The fourth quarter of 2021 closed with 341.7 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains, an increase of 3.3 million domain name registrations, or 1.0% compared to the third quarter of 2021.

Cloud provider Amazon Web Services and the Australian Government's Digital Transformation Agency have renewed and extended their whole-of-government agreement.

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Stephen Withers, newsletter editor, iTWire