Head of Meta Ireland Anne O’Leary appointed Ibec president
Chief executive Danny McCoy says O’Leary has deep understanding of global business landscape in Ireland and has worked closely with SMEs
Chief executive Danny McCoy says O’Leary has deep understanding of global business landscape in Ireland and has worked closely with SMEs
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp parent company’s oversight body says phrase has multiple meanings and ‘context is crucial’
Indictment of Telegram founder Pavel Durov raises the stakes in evolving debate over responsibility for online content
Berkshire Hathaway shares up almost 30% this year ahead of the S&P 500 more than all but two of the ‘magnificent seven’ stocks
Buyer to acquire East Wall Road building at 65% discount to price paid by South Korean bank in 2018
Government should declare smartphone and social media use by the young as public health emergency, says Irish Medical Organisation
Mark Zuckerberg expresses ‘regret’ at parent company Meta’s handling of content moderation during pandemic
Global advertising spend set to reach $1tn this year, with even traditional media managing an increase thanks to impact of US presidential election
Investigators linked activity to same network blamed for hacking incident reported by Trump campaign
Irish entity lost €8.2m after tax last year, down from profits of more than €41m in 2022
Revenue from the business tax generated €23.8 billion last year, equivalent to €5,000 for every man, woman and child in the State
There are powerful tools to counter the amplification of extreme material. We just need to use them
A virtual Ikea store without any products might seem like good advertising – but is it any fun for the consumer?
Businessman pursuing people behind fake and misleading advertisements on Meta social platforms
Tech companies invest in renewable energy but cannot fully control how polluting their data centres are
Financials and tech stocks worst hit as indices show a sea of red
The apartments can be modern and low maintenance but you may have to pay extra for car parking and be tied into a certain utility provider
Irish market ends the day down, with Dalata and Glanbia the big fallers
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Outsized influence meant poorly-received results can drag markets down disproportionately
Llama 3.1 is ‘state of the art’ Mark Zuckerberg says
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
META-FINES (UPDATE 1):UPDATE 1-Nigeria fines Meta $220 million for violating consumer, data laws
Choppy trading in New York sees brief rally in chipmaker stocks give way to losses
Facebook owner considers multibillion investment in European eyewear group to expand smart glasses partnership
Ill-informed rant from Meta head of global affairs appears driven by his employer’s frustration with EU rules
Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Meta were responsible for almost half the S&P 500′s gains in first half of 2024
Splits are now seen as a catalyst for growth. Investors should be wary
The pan-European Stoxx 600 index ended 0.2 per cent lower, after notching a more than one-week high early in the day
In 2022, retailers on ecommerce platform Shopify started to report unusual activity from Ireland
EU is using introduction of Digital Markets Act to check the power of Big Tech
Average Irish home has nine devices connected to the internet, but middle-class cohorts have greater access to technology than their working-class counterparts
A high-profile call for tobacco-style warnings had no lasting effects on platforms’ shares
A high quality university sector combined with strong research and development capacity could make the EU a world leader in AI application
Company warns that Europe is falling behind in innovation in sector
Without use of local data planned product would be ‘second-rate experience’, says Facebook owner
AI assistants, training simulations and data tracking boost developers
Price gained 7.3 per cent, a first record high for the year and after an initial lukewarm reaction from investors
Politics has always been a performance, but performative violence - abuse as content creation - is something new, at least at the scale that the anecdotal data suggests. We are now in a dangerous era of hybrid online-offline political violence
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
Proposed changes would see it use data to train its models without asking for consent
Party accuses social media giant of ‘interference’ in its local and European election campaigns ahead of Friday vote
Vast swaths of office space have been left empty after a big shift to remote working
How does electric carmaker Telsa have a lower ESG score than US oil major Exxon, a company that spent decades trying suppress information about climate change?
Google and OpenAI unveiled new tools to bring ‘intelligent systems’ a step closer. Will this be a milestone for generative AI?
Commissioner ‘not convinced’ online giant has done enough to mitigate risks to physical and mental health of young people from Facebook and Instagram
Length of adjournment in Data Protection Commission case likely to be short, court says
Building on East Wall Road being offered to the market on behalf of receivers at a 65 per cent discount to 2018 sale price
Retail giant reaffirms its focus on reinvestment and on using capital to generate ‘meaningful returns’
Iseq index outperforms its peers, adding 1.5% after positive updates from Smurfit Kappa and Glenveagh Homes
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
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