The Irish Times

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

Wed May 25 2022 - 05:08

Ellison, Binance and Sequoia back Musk’s $44bn bid for Twitter

Biggest backing of $1bn comes from Oracle co-founder

Thu May 05 2022 - 12:49

State’s data watchdog criticised with ‘Big Brother’ award

German privacy groups claim Irish regulator behind ‘sabotage’ of EU data privacy laws

Sat Apr 30 2022 - 01:00

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

Tue Apr 26 2022 - 20:57

Oracle bets on cloud boom to forecast upbeat profit

Businesses increasing spending to support developing trend of hybrid working

Fri Mar 11 2022 - 16:04

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

Wed Mar 09 2022 - 05:00

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

Wed Mar 02 2022 - 06:00

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

Tue Feb 01 2022 - 01:00

Google appoints Adaire Fox-Martin as new Irish head

Former schoolteacher from Dublin will step into role vacated by Australian Nick Leeder

Mon Jan 31 2022 - 13:07

European stocks drop as Omicron worries intensify

Travel stocks fell 1 per cent, but were above their intra-day lows touched earlier in session

Mon Dec 20 2021 - 18:45

European shares slide amid hawkish moves by central banks

Tech stocks decline on Wall Street, while Dublin market bucks trend

Fri Dec 17 2021 - 18:55

Omicron chill continues to hold back equity markets

US indices rise as inflation report is in line with expectations

Fri Dec 10 2021 - 18:08

Tech groups say SAP, Oracle and Microsoft are unfair digital ‘gatekeepers’

DMA ‘falls short’ of addressing ‘unfair’ licensing practices, groups say

Thu Nov 18 2021 - 08:37

‘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

Wed Oct 27 2021 - 05:48

Amazon strikes deal with UK spy agencies to host top-secret material

High-security cloud system will be used by GCHQ, MI5 and MI6

Tue Oct 26 2021 - 07:54

Corporation tax revenue forecast to hit record €13.9bn this year

Department of Finance ups forecast by €400m in one week

Wed Oct 13 2021 - 10:39

Tesla moving headquarters to Texas from California

Company is building massive car and battery manufacturing complex in Texas

Fri Oct 08 2021 - 07:17

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

Thu Oct 07 2021 - 00:00

Online therapy platform in fine Fettle after gaining backers

Start-up Fettle secures backing of a number of leading entrepreneurs in pre-seed round

Mon Sept 06 2021 - 05:30

How do you integrate new staff in a remote world?

There are numerous benefits to getting support structures in place for new employees

Fri Aug 20 2021 - 05:00

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

Wed Jul 14 2021 - 05:45

Pentagon cancels $10bn cloud contract awarded to Microsoft

Amazon had accused Donald Trump of interfering in procurement of ‘Jedi’ services

Tue Jul 06 2021 - 20:49

Travel stocks fare well as investors bet on consumer bounceback

Nervousness from US traders as they await news of Fed policy tightening

Wed Jun 16 2021 - 19:35

ByteDance founder to step down as chief executive

Zhang Yiming will hand over to college roommate

Thu May 20 2021 - 08:13

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

Thu May 06 2021 - 05:30

TikTok names ByteDance CFO Shouzi Chew as CEO

Vanessa Pappas, who has served as interim head named chief operating officer

Fri Apr 30 2021 - 21:47

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

Tue Mar 16 2021 - 06:01

European stocks pressured by yields, Iseq underperforms peers

Ryanair firmly in the red with AIB, Flutter, and CRH also weighing on Iseq index

Fri Mar 05 2021 - 19:22

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

Tue Feb 16 2021 - 10:21

Microsoft made an approach to acquire Pinterest

Value of Pinterest soared during lockdown

Thu Feb 11 2021 - 10:58

Plan for digital Covid ‘vaccination passport’

Governments, airlines and other businesses may require proof of vaccination

Thu Jan 14 2021 - 12:25

Salesforce to buy Slack in deal worth $27.7bn

Cash and stock deal is largest in cloud software industry

Wed Dec 02 2020 - 14:08

Version 1 pays out €16.5m dividend as revenues rise

Company recorded its best ever sales figures during the second quarter of 2020

Fri Nov 27 2020 - 04:52

Fully-let Dublin docklands office building seeking €8.95m

Yield of 6% and scope for further development at Block G East Point Business Park

Wed Nov 25 2020 - 06:00