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Payment relates to suspension of US president’s accounts in wake of Capitol riot

Invention and product innovation require the best minds in cohesive teams, strong collegiality and respect, regardless of sex, skin colour, or religion

Ruling likely to fuel further criticism of Data Protection Commission’s enforcement of GDPR against US tech companies

There is poetic justice in a small Chinese AI start-up challenging US giants. Washington is shooting itself in the foot with chip export restrictions and clampdown on tech talent visas

Executives and investors question valuations and whether vast capital outlays are needed after all

The Nordic country is helping students learn about spotting false information. Is there space in the Irish curriculum to do the same?

Big Tech shares slump after AI start-up’s model raises questions about need for huge western hardware investment

As Europe faces a new wave of extreme nationalism, one of the last survivors of Auschwitz looks back

Tech giant’s international operation in Cork believed to be largest taxpayer in Republic

The saga involves a person who duped GAA players and others by posing as someone else and using a bogus network of contacts

Chinese social media giant survives in US for the moment

Analyst downgrades and share-price falls more likely when a female chief executive uses uptalk, researchers have found

Unthinkable: Irish economic policy was once framed as ‘Boston or Berlin’ – our options today are much starker

Facebook and Instagram have pulled the plug on AI avatars Grandpa Brian and Liv but their successors will soon flood our lives with lies on a hitherto unimaginable scale

Coca-Cola hit the headlines after gifting Trump with his very own personalised Diet Coke bottle for his inauguration

Planet Business: Meta’s non-regrettable attrition, Starbucks’ new code of customer conduct and performers signed-up for Donald Trump’s inauguration

Mark Lemley will stay on Facebook, he says. But there are other things he can do to salve his conscience

Rollout of upgraded voice assistant hit by delays as Big Tech group struggles to overcome technical hurdles

Household names turn back the clock to darker times as they fall into step with the next occupant of the White House

Company employs about 2,000 people in Ireland

Tech groups urging president-elect Donald Trump to intervene against 'overzealous' European regulation

Apple, which employs 6,000 here, has asked shareholders to vote against move seen as courting favour with Trump administration

Meta, Pfizer and Google among companies aiming to keep in Donald Trump’s good books

Meta investors don’t seem to be fretting – for now, anyway

Comments follow Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to replace fact-checking departments with company-moderated community notes

Meta will now allow ‘insulting language when discussing transgender rights, immigration or homosexuality’, and no longer bans describing women as ‘property’ or ‘household objects’

Planet Business: Mark Zuckerberg’s watch, Michael Barr’s pre-emptive move and possible successors to Justin Trudeau

Move by company’s billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg prompted alarm among social media experts

It is hardly an accident that the new policies are almost identical to those of Elon Musk’s X

Radio: ‘I can tell you Dublin is getting off very lightly in the cold snap so far,’ Oliver Callan notes on Tuesday’s show, ‘much to our relief here’

Meta chief drops factcheckers, but don’t bet on move to go well with his advertisers

European Commission under pressure to combat Elon Musk’s ‘intolerable’ meddling in European elections

Company to rely on ‘community notes’ in free speech pitch

Investor Charlie Songhurst, Exor chief executive John Elkann also join board

Eight tech giants now hold combined market capitalisation of almost $19trn

Former Lib Dem leader has been replaced by a Republican ally as tech sector races to appease the president-elect

Veteran executive seen as a potential Google CEO must tackle threats from Trump to tech rivals

Move comes just ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House

Nick Clegg contacted Simon Harris in the summer and also met him in Dublin in December

Lesson of the 20th century was that when a critical mass of citizens feel the system is rigged against them, we encourage radical politics