P&O’s barbaric sackings share ‘Hall of Infamy’ with Clerys
Sheer scale of the ferry group’s managerial incompetence is a sight to behold
‘Tech superpower’ Ireland should take on social media giants, Frances Haugen says
Facebook whistleblower urges Data Protection Commission to be braver in taking on firms
Whistleblower accuses Facebook of misleading public and investors
Social media company in its deepest crisis since the Cambridge Analytica scandal
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Group of 165 Google critics calls for swift EU antitrust action
Google denies it unfairly favours its own services
1,800 homes sign up as WiredScore rolls out build-to-rent certification
Company, which certifies buildings in terms of internet connectivity, expands in Dublin
Your business week: Philip Lane’s post-election insights
CSO data on Thursday rounds off year in which house prices have begun to calm
Bono-backed truck-tracking company raises $400 million
Convoy, whose other backers include Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, now valued at $2.75bn
This Week in Business: Media and aviation giants report results
Darina Allen talks to women who don’t lunch, while the FT’s Martin Wolf talks transformation
Your business week: Flutter Entertainment to report earnings
CSO figures to give clearer insight into state of affairs for Irish car industry; Glanbia and Kerry Group to report
All eyes on Ryanair as airline releases last pre-Brexit financial results
Your Business Week: Alphabet and Twitter results due; Checkout conference takes place
This Week in Business: Blair to address Web Summit Lisbon
National Analytics Conference takes place in Dublin, results due from Liberty Media
Dublin tourism briefing and Facebook results due
Your business this week: Irish unemployment figures, BoE rates decision and Starbucks results
Bono-backed truck technology company Convoy raises $198m
Other investors in Convoy include Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff and Reid Hoffman
This Week: Bank of Ireland earnings expected to take positive turn
Elsewhere, FBD’s H1 results come in middle of an investigation into the firm
Bono joins Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates as backer of tech start-up Convoy
U2 frontman and lead guitarist The Edge invest in on-demand trucking firm
This week: Results from Walt Disney, News Corp and Horizon Pharma
Employment law conference to address ‘increasingly restrictive’ legislation
Yelp’s Irish unit books €2.3m restructuring charge
Turnover rose while losses narrowed at Irish unit of global online review platform
Ryanair’s wings clipped by cancellations debacle
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Online reviews: what you read isn’t always what you get
While big companies try to prevent them, fake user reviews are still a problem
Business Week: Alarm as Trump inches ahead of Clinton
Also Brexit opportunities, financial improprieties, and unemployment decrease
Yelp’s painful Dublin job cuts show friendly Web 2.0 is all for show
Caveat: Chief executive Jeremy Stoppelman delivered the news in a cold, insensitive manner
Dublin in the firing line as Yelp to cut 175 jobs worldwide
Online review platform announced the creation of 100 jobs in Dublin only two years ago
WeChat takes over China but can’t get over the Great Firewall
806 million people use smartphone multipurpose app but Beijing monitors content
Top 1000 2016: The winners, the losers and the biggest taxpayers
Ireland’s Top 1000 companies hit record profits of some €36bn in this year’s survey
Star power: the trouble with TripAdvisor
Along with Yelp and others, the travel-review site lets us share our opinions about restaurants, hotels and much more. But how trustworthy are user reviews, and how do they affect business?
‘Dublin Zoo’s a nice place except they have animals in captivity’
What Yelp and TripAdvisor say about places in Ireland
The battle between surveillance, security and the right to privacy
The bargain you make, again and again, with various companies is surveillance in exchange for free service
Consumer review website operator Yelp considering sale
Yelp.com could net in excess of $3.5 billion if it is sold, reports ‘Wall Street Journal’
User-review websites operator Yelp loses €1.14m in first quarter
Local advertising revenue dropped as a result of a sales-force restructuring
Results due from tech giants Apple, Twitter and LinkedIn
Apple takes centre stage with iPhone sales driving up their profit margins
PayPal mafia has brought many start-ups to web success
Uber, Airbnb, LinkedIn, Yelp – all are products of a small, elitist cabal with PayPal roots
Social entrepreneur likes to use technology to help keep it local
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