Public mood swings against the sultans of Silicon Valley
What wealth can’t always buy is admiration. And that’s an area in which the tech titans have suffered major losses
Ellison, Binance and Sequoia back Musk’s $44bn bid for Twitter
Biggest backing of $1bn comes from Oracle co-founder
State’s data watchdog criticised with ‘Big Brother’ award
German privacy groups claim Irish regulator behind ‘sabotage’ of EU data privacy laws
Oracle’s Irish unit funds €1bn payment to the US technology group
Staff numbers last year at the tech giant’s Dublin operation fell by about 200
Oracle bets on cloud boom to forecast upbeat profit
Businesses increasing spending to support developing trend of hybrid working
Eastpoint Business Park office block with potential at €6.25m
Block H for sale with full vacant possession and scope for full or partial redevelopment
Eastpoint Business Park office block at €12.5m offers 6.72% yield
Dublin docklands investment is 73% let and generating €923,517 in annual rental income
Version 1 sets up camp in Newcastle Upon Tyne with 200 new jobs
Irish IT services firm to establish base as part of Newcastle’s booming tech sector
Google appoints Adaire Fox-Martin as new Irish head
Former schoolteacher from Dublin will step into role vacated by Australian Nick Leeder
European stocks drop as Omicron worries intensify
Travel stocks fell 1 per cent, but were above their intra-day lows touched earlier in session
European shares slide amid hawkish moves by central banks
Tech stocks decline on Wall Street, while Dublin market bucks trend
Omicron chill continues to hold back equity markets
US indices rise as inflation report is in line with expectations
Tech groups say SAP, Oracle and Microsoft are unfair digital ‘gatekeepers’
DMA ‘falls short’ of addressing ‘unfair’ licensing practices, groups say
‘Somebody saw something in me that maybe I didn’t see in myself’
Adaire Fox-Martin returned to hometown Dublin to head Google’s European cloud wing
Amazon strikes deal with UK spy agencies to host top-secret material
High-security cloud system will be used by GCHQ, MI5 and MI6
Corporation tax revenue forecast to hit record €13.9bn this year
Department of Finance ups forecast by €400m in one week
Tesla moving headquarters to Texas from California
Company is building massive car and battery manufacturing complex in Texas
Tenth anniversary of tech trailblazer Steve Jobs’s death
Net Results: A decade later, he is here with us daily, in a tech world he did, indeed, change
Online therapy platform in fine Fettle after gaining backers
Start-up Fettle secures backing of a number of leading entrepreneurs in pre-seed round
How do you integrate new staff in a remote world?
There are numerous benefits to getting support structures in place for new employees
Fully-let Dublin docklands office block for €15.25m offers 7.35% yield
Block P2 Eastpoint Business Park delivers €1,247,000 rental income from Virgin Media
Pentagon cancels $10bn cloud contract awarded to Microsoft
Amazon had accused Donald Trump of interfering in procurement of ‘Jedi’ services
Travel stocks fare well as investors bet on consumer bounceback
Nervousness from US traders as they await news of Fed policy tightening
Texit: Why are some tech companies leaving for Texas?
Whatever about ‘quality of life’, the state’s tax rates of just 1 per cent must be notable draw
TikTok names ByteDance CFO Shouzi Chew as CEO
Vanessa Pappas, who has served as interim head named chief operating officer
I have seen the good side of screen time for children this lockdown
Technology provides a tool to communicate and an outlet to learn skills and be creative
European stocks pressured by yields, Iseq underperforms peers
Ryanair firmly in the red with AIB, Flutter, and CRH also weighing on Iseq index
Vaccination passports: What are the pros and cons? And will we have to use them?
Initiative could allow more travel as Covid-19 drops but raises privacy and fairness concerns
Plan for digital Covid ‘vaccination passport’
Governments, airlines and other businesses may require proof of vaccination
Salesforce to buy Slack in deal worth $27.7bn
Cash and stock deal is largest in cloud software industry
Version 1 pays out €16.5m dividend as revenues rise
Company recorded its best ever sales figures during the second quarter of 2020
Fully-let Dublin docklands office building seeking €8.95m
Yield of 6% and scope for further development at Block G East Point Business Park
Warren Buffett pulls back on banks and bets on drug makers
Billionaire investor’s Berkshire Hathaway sinks $5.7bn into four US pharma stocks
Clock ticks for TikTok sale as ByteDance seeks more time
Executive order gave Chinese owned company until November 12th to clinch deal
TikTok to add 200 jobs to its Irish operation
Expansion will bring TikTok’s headcount in Ireland to more than 1,100
Barbie boom, Trump loyalists and a bond king’s latest battle
Planet Business: Everybody needs good neighbours
Can Big Tech’s backing install Biden in the White House?
Net Results: The Democratic candidate has support of tech industry and its biggest critics
Google given sceptical reception in Supreme Court against Oracle
Experts have warned case could have far-reaching effects on competition in the tech industry
US supreme court divided over Google bid to end Oracle copyright suit
Case centres on Android operating system that runs most of the world’s smartphones
Google versus Oracle tech dominance battle heads to US Supreme Court
Case focuses on whether developers need permission to copy APIs used in other programs
Judge blocks Trump’s US app store ban on TikTok
Ruling comes just hours before Apple and Google would have been forced to remove video app
European stocks recover from Covid lockdown fears
Iseq trails other bourses with banks and property plays dragging index lower
Microsoft tightens grip on gaming with $7.5bn deal for ZeniMax
Deal for Doom maker comes a week after Microsoft’s failed bid for TikTok’s US assets
ByteDance and Oracle at loggerheads over terms of TikTok agreement
Doubts cast on Trump’s preliminary blessing of deal to allow app continue operating in US
US judge halts Trump administration’s order to remove WeChat from app stores
Prohibitions burden substantially more speech than necessary, judge says
Valuation of $60bn sought for TikTok as Oracle and Walmart take stakes
The two companies will pay a combined $12bn for their minority stakes
TikTok to be banned from US app stores from Sunday
Trump executive orders also require removal of social media app WeChat from Apple and Google’s app stores in US
Global equities slip after Fed fails to move on bond buying programme
European markets retreat as US rates held at historic lows
Think big: How AI is helping Irish businesses innovate and grow
The AI start-up sector is thriving, with solutions ranging from healthcare to fintech
Pretax losses surge at Slack’s Irish arm as turnover rises
Losses attributed to expansion of group’s sales function and investment in platform
TikTok set to become a standalone US company to satisfy White House
ByteDance to retain majority shareholding with Oracle holding minority stake
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