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New president’s wife chose to wear a dark, high-necked coat and a boater hat to celebrate her husband’s second inauguration

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Analyst downgrades and share-price falls more likely when a female chief executive uses uptalk, researchers have found

Icy, strained inauguration day is rich with human drama - and the abiding American theme of defeat and redemption

Facebook and Instagram have pulled the plug on AI avatars Grandpa Brian and Liv but their successors will soon flood our lives with lies on a hitherto unimaginable scale

Coca-Cola hit the headlines after gifting Trump with his very own personalised Diet Coke bottle for his inauguration

Planet Business: Meta’s non-regrettable attrition, Starbucks’ new code of customer conduct and performers signed-up for Donald Trump’s inauguration

What is the point of having all the money if you can’t stand up for traditional American values or stick up the middle finger if someone is trying to intimidate you or put you in prison

Mark Lemley will stay on Facebook, he says. But there are other things he can do to salve his conscience

Household names turn back the clock to darker times as they fall into step with the next occupant of the White House

Nothing says ‘America first’ quite like Boeing aeroplanes, and Ryanair is one of the US aircraft maker’s best customers

Company employs about 2,000 people in Ireland

Tech groups urging president-elect Donald Trump to intervene against 'overzealous' European regulation

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Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has entered the MMA-MAGA arena. A high-profile bout is the next logical step

Meta investors don’t seem to be fretting – for now, anyway

Comments follow Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to replace fact-checking departments with company-moderated community notes

Meta will now allow ‘insulting language when discussing transgender rights, immigration or homosexuality’, and no longer bans describing women as ‘property’ or ‘household objects’

Planet Business: Mark Zuckerberg’s watch, Michael Barr’s pre-emptive move and possible successors to Justin Trudeau

Move by company’s billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg prompted alarm among social media experts

It is hardly an accident that the new policies are almost identical to those of Elon Musk’s X

Radio: ‘I can tell you Dublin is getting off very lightly in the cold snap so far,’ Oliver Callan notes on Tuesday’s show, ‘much to our relief here’

Meta chief drops factcheckers, but don’t bet on move to go well with his advertisers

European Commission under pressure to combat Elon Musk’s ‘intolerable’ meddling in European elections

Investor Charlie Songhurst, Exor chief executive John Elkann also join board

Former Lib Dem leader has been replaced by a Republican ally as tech sector races to appease the president-elect

Tech bros from Elon Musk to Sam Altman are looking to president-elect’s second term to unshackle them from regulatory restrictions

Planet Business: Pivots, experiments and the beauty of everyday life all feature in this round-up of the things people said in 2024

Social media app that feels a lot like early Twitter has attracted millions of new users this month and, so far, is not annoying like Threads

As companies from Amazon to Citi overhaul management, experts warn that savings from job cuts can be overtaken by unintended consequences

Staff given daily meal allowances for breakfast, lunch and dinner as a perk common in Big Tech companies

The system must be changed so victims don’t have to campaign for decades to get justice and redress and so those liable can be held to account

Indictment of Telegram founder Pavel Durov raises the stakes in evolving debate over responsibility for online content

Mark Zuckerberg expresses ‘regret’ at parent company Meta’s handling of content moderation during pandemic

Llama 3.1 is ‘state of the art’ Mark Zuckerberg says

Facebook owner considers multibillion investment in European eyewear group to expand smart glasses partnership

The marriage of the son of Asia’s richest businessman, Mukesh Ambani, takes place over the weekend with guests including Kim Kardashian, Tony Blair and Mark Zuckerberg

I tried it for a week in London and by day five found myself eating a salted caramel Magnum for breakfast

A high-profile call for tobacco-style warnings had no lasting effects on platforms’ shares

Bosses sell hundreds of millions of dollars in company shares this quarter in sign that markets may be peaking