Stealth sackings: why do employers fire staff for minor misdemeanours?
Hard line on conduct could prevent bigger lapses but may prompt claims of disguised cost savings
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When it comes to following the money at election time, don’t even try
Scanned, handwritten PDFs spread across multiple institutions is not acceptable in 2024 and does not enable accountability
Bluesky is starting to surge amid upheaval in the social media world
Network, which grew from an off-shoot of Jack Dorsey’s Twitter, experiencing ‘growing pains’ of popularity as membership passes 15m
How technology created a ‘recipe for loneliness’
The rise of smartphones and social networking apps has forever changed social norms around how we communicate
Meta fined nearly €800m for breaking EU law over classified ads practices
Facebook is undermining rivals by ‘tying’ its free Marketplace services with the social network, Brussels says
Surviving a shake-up: is restructuring ever good for staff?
As companies from Amazon to Citi overhaul management, experts warn that savings from job cuts can be overtaken by unintended consequences
Services operated by tech companies TikTok, X and Meta ‘exposed to terrorist content’, media regulator finds
Coimisiún na Meán said that the three companies would have to take specific measures to protect their services from being used for the dissemination of terrorist content
Court refuses to direct document sharing in three cases brought by former content moderators
Plaintiffs are suing their former employers and Facebook/Meta claiming they suffered serious psychological injuries
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Investors are notoriously fickle – will they give big firms the space to utilise artificial intelligence?
Amazon revenues jump on back of AI-fuelled cloud demand
Market capitalisation more than doubled over past five years from growing cloud and advertising businesses as well as expanding margins in retail
Meta, Microsoft lift AI spending, worrying Wall Street ahead of Amazon results
Spending will build out data centres to meet vast demand
Light touch regulation did not work with banks and won’t work for video sharing platforms like TikTok
Coimisiún na Meán’s online safety code for video-sharing platforms contains echoes of the 2008 banking crisis
Why a Donald Trump election win could signal the end of Ireland’s golden years
A Trump victory in the US presidential election would constitute a seismic shift in our overall international strategy
Meta tests facial recognition technology to protect celebrities from scams but Ireland not included in system
The company is targeting fraudsters and scammers who use the image of somebody well-known to fool people into clicking on a malicious website
Regulating social media is an impossible job but someone has got to at least try
Coimisiún na Meán’s online safety code is as much about what it doesn’t do as what it does
Ryanair forecasts €50m hit and job cuts as it launches airport cap case
Seen and heard: Ryanair forecasts major hit from passenger cap, Harris’s private jet bill and Meta’s sublet
Meta staff fired for misusing free food vouchers
Staff given daily meal allowances for breakfast, lunch and dinner as a perk common in Big Tech companies
Retail and hospitality in the firing line as Irish insolvencies ramp up
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Investors look beyond Nvidia and the magnificent seven
Increasingly confident investors looking beyond tech giants, suggesting reign may be over — for now at least
Accusation of ‘union-busting’ denied in Meta data centre dispute
Row centres around claims that critical facility engineers had rostering arrangements changed without consultation
Johnny Ronan could do with a friend he won’t fall out with for his next project
Developer has a history of legal battles with his collaborators
Denis O’Brien now suing 748 defendants over alleged fake ads falsely linking him to promotion of financial scams
Meta accused of ‘extraordinary’ approach to disclosure of details of ad account holders
California governor vetoes bill to regulate artificial intelligence
Gavin Newsom agreed with leading AI companies that the legislation would have stifled innovation
Facebook owner Meta fined €91m by Irish Data Protection Commission
Social media group inadvertently stored certain passwords of social media users in ‘plaintext’ on its internal systems
As X declines, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue
The great migration from Elon Musk’s X has seen users, especially progressives, retreat into one particular silo at Bluesky
Schools abuse report shows how the legal system hurts victims and must change
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
Will California pass an AI law that is dividing Silicon Valley?
California’s Gavin Newsom has until September 30th to decide whether to sign legislation that will reach far beyond the state
Meta faces hefty EU antitrust fine over classified ads practices
Brussels claims Facebook is breaking the law and undermining rivals with its free Marketplace services
Amazon rejects staff claim return-to-office policy is aimed at cutting jobs
Big tech companies have differing requirements when it comes to attending work in person
Ireland’s top 1,000 companies: One hugely profitable firm out in front as Big Tech dominates
iPhone maker Apple recorded revenue of just under €200bn; while Google, Microsoft and Meta are all ranked in the top five
Head of Meta Ireland Anne O’Leary appointed Ibec president
Chief executive Danny McCoy says O’Leary has deep understanding of global business landscape in Ireland and has worked closely with SMEs
Meta’s Oversight Board says ‘from the river to the sea’ posts not always hate speech
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp parent company’s oversight body says phrase has multiple meanings and ‘context is crucial’
Can tech executives be held responsible for what happens on their platforms?
Indictment of Telegram founder Pavel Durov raises the stakes in evolving debate over responsibility for online content
Cautious Buffett gets his trillion-dollar birthday present
Berkshire Hathaway shares up almost 30% this year ahead of the S&P 500 more than all but two of the ‘magnificent seven’ stocks
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