The Irish Times

The State’s top 10 corporate taxpayers: who are they?

Corporation tax generated €11.8 billion in receipts last year, €1 in every €5 collected

Thu Dec 30 2021 - 14:53

Billionaire bosses to feel heat over tech giants’ wealth and power

Hearing will see tech bosses asked to account for their firms’ market dominance

Wed Jul 29 2020 - 09:24

Facebook continuing to hire for hundreds of roles in Ireland

Company announces plan to create 50 new jobs for its payments subsidiary Calibra

Mon Apr 20 2020 - 05:00

Weblog: Facebook the company parts way with Facebook the app

Rebranding exercise sees social network use different logos for its arms and products

Thu Nov 07 2019 - 07:45

Facebook looks to broaden its horizons with new VR world

Product comes across like a mixture of a number of past and current VR offerings

Fri Sept 27 2019 - 13:58

Revenues and profits soar at Dublin-based Keywords Studios

Company acquired eight businesses last year but also saw a 10% rise in organic growth

Thu Jan 31 2019 - 08:00

Davy upgrades Dublin-based Keywords Studios to ‘outperform’

Upgrade comes despite Keywords recently predicting below-consensus full-year revenue

Tue Jan 08 2019 - 18:30

CES preview: Devices that will invade your life in 2019

AI that responds to your voice, next-generation wireless networks and more are on display at the consumer electronics trade show in Las Vegas

Mon Jan 07 2019 - 07:33

Keyword Studios predicts full-year pretax profits of about €37m

Dublin-based gaming group also announces deal to buy Sunny Side Up for CAD5.9m

Fri Dec 21 2018 - 07:41

Keywords Studios acquires Japanese company for €1.27m

Dublin gaming firm with €1.15bn market value acquired another company last week

Mon Jul 23 2018 - 09:45

Game on for Keywords Studios as it acquires Canadian company Snowed In

Dublin-headquartered but London-listed gaming company on acquisition trail

Fri Jul 20 2018 - 08:55

Irish video game firm to buy London agency for £5.2m

Keywords Studios swoops for Fire Without Smoke, the latest in a string of acquisitions

Wed May 30 2018 - 07:48

Game on for London-listed Irish firm that operates below the radar

Andrew Day is chief executive of Keywords Studios, the billion dollar company you’ve probably never heard about

Fri Mar 02 2018 - 06:00

Irish video gaming studio Keywords expects big rise in revenues

Group made 11 acquisitions last year and expects pretax profit of €22.5m

Thu Feb 01 2018 - 09:15

Dublin-based Keywords Studios makes second acquisition this week

Video gaming firm snaps up Localizadora Latam just days after buying Sperasoft

Fri Dec 15 2017 - 09:47

Irish game developer Keywords Studios buys US firm in $27m deal

Keywords has bought Sperasoft, which employs 400 software engineers and artists

Wed Dec 13 2017 - 14:23

Facebook to sell portable headset for virtual reality

The Oculus Go is billed as simpler than the Oculus Rift, which went on sale last year

Thu Oct 12 2017 - 06:51

Facebook’s Oculus cuts price of virtual reality headset

Rift’s new price of $399 matches Sony’s VR headset PlayStation VR

Mon Jul 10 2017 - 16:51

Oculus shutters VR movie studio

Parent company Facebook to close Story Studio, which launched two years ago

Thu May 11 2017 - 04:56

Reality bites as Oculus Rift inventor moves on from Facebook

Cantillon: Palmer Luckey leaves social media giant two years after it bought his business

Fri Mar 31 2017 - 19:15

Not quite so Luckey? Oculus founder departs Facebook

Social media giant bought Palmer Luckey’s firm in 2014 for $2bn in virtual reality push

Fri Mar 31 2017 - 10:35

Facebook’s court loss won’t dim a stellar quarter

User growth on social network at an all-time high

Thu Feb 02 2017 - 10:40

Facebook-owned Oculus hit by $500m judgment over ‘stolen code’

ZeniMax claims it was responsible for key breakthroughs in virtual reality software

Thu Feb 02 2017 - 09:15

Oculus to recruit 9 engineers for new Cork office

Facebook-owned virtual reality company expands new LED research base in Cork

Thu Jan 19 2017 - 15:15

‘Fanciful story’ behind virtual reality firm Facebook bought

It began as a rift between geeks but is now a messy $2bn dispute set to involve Zuckerberg

Mon Jan 09 2017 - 14:43

Oculus acquires Cork-based InfiniLED

Deal will see Irish-developed LED technology applied to virtual-reality devices

Fri Oct 14 2016 - 07:37

Oculus brings virtual reality closer to home

Tech Tools: Rift headset maker drops minimum spec, meaning it is now possible to use a laptop

Thu Oct 13 2016 - 06:00

Oculus Rift: ‘Remember: no pterodactyl arms’

Hands on with the latest in virtual reality

Thu Jun 16 2016 - 17:11

Tech Tools: Go Pro Omni brings virtual reality to action photography

GoPro Omni Camera allows you to shoot360 degree action footage

Thu Apr 28 2016 - 13:00

Analysis: Rumours of Facebook’s demise greatly exaggerated

Latest results show benefits of bold moves made by company

Thu Apr 28 2016 - 11:06

Google pushes further into world of virtual reality

New smartphone headset is expected to be similar to Samsung’s Gear VR

Sun Feb 07 2016 - 19:37

Getting accustomed to the virtual life at tech-heads’ big consumer show

A few days trying out VR clobber has us convinced: virtual reality is no fluke

Mon Jan 11 2016 - 09:00

Web Summit: Facebook’s getting smarter at recognition

CTO Mike Schroepfer showcases an ever-smarter streamlined network

Wed Nov 04 2015 - 17:50

Will virtual reality become a real thing in 2016?

Oculus Rift, Vive, Samsung’s Gear and Microsoft’s HoloLens – here come the headsets

Thu Oct 01 2015 - 07:15