Facebook owner Meta targets finance with ‘Zuck Bucks’ and creator coins
Social media group seeks alternative revenue streams as popularity of its main products falls
Facebook gives up on digital payments ambitions with Diem asset sale
Social media giant admits defeat in digital payments
Facebook cannot keep burying its head in the sand and hope things blow over
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Facebook says it wants ‘fair shot’ in crypto payments sphere
Payments push centres on digital wallet used to move money around the world
Where it all went wrong for Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency
Facebook was blindsided this month when seven high-profile partner companies, including eBay, PayPal, Visa and Mastercard, stepped back from its Libra project
Facebook’s libra partners officially join association
Numerous parters including PayPal, Visa and Stripe have already quit the project
Booking.com owner becomes latest to drop Facebook’s Libra
International scrutiny has made social network’s cryptocurrency a contentious project
Zuckerberg to appear before congressional committee
Hearing is examination of Facebook’s broad impact on the financial services and housing industries
Facebook’s Libra in regulators’ sights
ECB’s board member Benoit Coeure warns of serious risks posed by ‘stablecoins’
Facebook’s Libra backers look to distance themselves from project
Some early supporters of cryptocurrency consider cutting ties amid regulatory scrutiny
US senators grill Facebook on its plan for libra cryptocurrency
Social media giant ‘delusional’ if it believes people will trust it with money, senator says
How Facebook has raced to build Libra
Libra is a digital coin backed by hard assets and supported by 27 other partners, including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Uber and Spotify
Facebook plans cryptocurrency launch in 2020
Currency called libra will allow people to move money from their smartphones
Facebook plots global expansion of mobile payments on WhatsApp
Tech company will recruit up to 100 people across London and Dublin
Sorry, Domhnall Gleeson, I don’t want to chat to you anymore
My chatbot, which I’ve named after the Irish film star, is starting to get creepy and annoying
‘Bishop Eamonn Casey wanted to challenge realities’
Bishop John Kirby recalls the ‘dynamic’ man he came to know
Eileen Battersby: When Anthony Cronin dismissed me as an idiot
Complete and formidable literary man whose intelligence never overpowered his art
Ríona Judge McCormack wins Hennessy New Irish Writer award
Chris Connolly wins Emerging Fiction prize, Jane Clarke wins Emerging Poetry award and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne inducted into Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne: A compelling voice in anyone’s language
The latest Hennessy hall-of-famer is mesmeric and convincing when writing in English and turns her simpler Irish to great use in her crime writing
Facebook’s 10-year plan: the Messenger bots are coming
Company hires Google’s Regina Dugan to head up hardware division
Facebook tests M, a personal digital assistant for Messenger
M is backed by team of Facebook employees, mixing technology with human expertise
Devised in Galway – Game Golf has made its way to the belt of President Obama
The evolution of John McGuire’s shot tracking system for golfers is well remembered by its inventor
Artist, teacher and influential figure in Cork culture
Maigread Murphy: November 10th, 1919 - February 18th, 2014
Ireland’s new best pal pays off
PayPal president David Marcus says the digital wallet is just the beginning of change in the way we pay for goods and services
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