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Financials and tech stocks worst hit as indices show a sea of red

Crowdstrike shares have lost nearly 35 per cent of their value since the outage

Irish market ends the day down, with Dalata and Glanbia the big fallers

Outsized influence meant poorly-received results can drag markets down disproportionately

Ryanair the standout stock as banks retreat

Revenues beat analyst expectations as advertising sales jump 11 per cent

The pan-European Stoxx 600 index closed 0.9 per cent higher, coming off a five-day losing run

Nvidia alone lost over $200bn in market value on Wednesday

Google Payment Ireland processes payments for other Google group companies, for which it earns revenue

An objection on behalf of seven households on Barrow Street has been lodged with Dublin City Council

The pan-European Stoxx 600 index ended 0.2 per cent lower, after notching a more than one-week high early in the day

Plans for 72,400 square metre data storage facility at Grange Castle site which houses servers for products including Gmail, Google Maps and its search engine

The active fund giant has only 2% per cent of client money invested in companies with business related to fossil fuels, well below market average

Sinn Féin spent €166,800 with Meta and Google, with Fine Gael’s online advertising costing €75,900 and Fianna Fáil spending €74,900 over three months

Analyst reckons AI is in the early stages of an investment bubble and says internet bubble of the 1990s is a cautionary tale

Jeremy Hunt believes the UK can create a home-grown tech giant, but for a trillion dollar tech company to emerge, it needs a thriving foundation

Google and OpenAI unveiled new tools to bring ‘intelligent systems’ a step closer. Will this be a milestone for generative AI?

Ryanair lagged behind its peers as it dropped 40 basis points following comments last week on the pricing of fares

Don’t get suckered into joining the guessing game of who will emerge on top in AI race

Retail giant reaffirms its focus on reinvestment and on using capital to generate ‘meaningful returns’

Irish index of shares ended the week up 0.5% with gains in construction and travel

Revenue was €75 billion for the quarter ended March 31st, beating estimates

The likely message from the leading companies is: be patient

Euronext Dublin up just over 1% at close of business on ‘strong day’ for the market, traders say

Study finds investors should be concerned when companies change the focus of their discussions

Unlike Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, Alphabet’s YouTube has not been blocked in Russia

Investors are being discriminating – not the kind of thing one sees in bubbly environments

Donald Trump’s social media network is trading at valuations that make some of the most successful listed businesses in history look pedestrian

Irish mariner is at the heart of much of today’s subsea cable network but we no longer have the capability to monitor and defend it

Big Tech groups are the first to face full investigations under bloc’s new Digital Markets Act

Euronext Dublin up marginally at close of business on muted day for investors following St Patrick’s Day holiday

Large online platforms now have to comply with new EU regulations on competition. Too little too late, say some

The Digital Markets Act takes effect on March 6th. What does it mean for consumers?

Stocktake: As market historian Professor Paul Marsh bluntly notes, the question today ‘is whether the price is too high; it’s not whether or not it’s a bunch of junk’

Stocktake: Issues with AI chatbot Gemini indicate Google is ‘trailing and mis-executing in a fast-moving and high-stakes space’

Microsoft, Google and Meta are using more water to cool down data centres that power artificial intelligence products

Video-sharing platform also to face formal investigation over alleged failure to protect minors who use it

Anything less than blowout earnings could cause a sell-off with one analyst warning of downside of up to 30%

Renault, Pernod Ricard and Commerzbank among the gainers, but fall for Kerry leaves Iseq in the red