European shares retreat on rising bond yields

Dublin market virtually unchanged with Ryanair, Kerry and Kingspan weighing

TikTok rival Kuaishou hits $160bn valuation as shares surge after IPO

Chinese video app’s market debut is biggest in tech sector since Uber offering in 2019

US judge halts Trump administration’s order to remove WeChat from app stores

Prohibitions burden substantially more speech than necessary, judge says

Fortnite billionaire in Epic battle with Apple and Google

Games company chief Tim Sweeney takes legal action over commission on digital sales

Asian markets calm as Sino-US tensions flare up

Japanese and Singaporean markets closed for public holidays

Digital bank N26 raises more than $100m to accelerate growth

Berlin-based fintech has more than 5m customers, including 100,000 in Ireland

Ireland wields its ‘soft power’ as Bono joins coronavirus fight

U2 singer is just one of number of people the Government has sought crucial help from

Inside the high-stakes race to build world’s first flying taxi

‘This is the perfect means of transportation, something that can take off and land everywhere’

The Voice Squad: Ireland making big noise in world of sound

Leading voice tech expert says Irish playing big role in developing solutions

Blizzard faces backlash as esports and politics collide

Calls for boycott as Blitzchung gets 12-month ban for Hong Kong protest support, forfeits $10,000 prize money

Mood lifts on global markets as tensions ease between US and China

Markets report: All eyes now on the ECB’s monetary policy meeting on Thursday

Jack Ma retires from Chinese tech giant Alibaba

Low-key accountant to succeed charismatic Ma who built $462bn company

Tech stocks: bubble, bubble, toil and trouble?

History suggests no market fashion or trend persists indefinitely

Alibaba revenues rise 42% on China online shopping surge

Food delivery service and cloud activity help to boost figures

Global trade worries continues to dampen mood of European traders

Markets report: London’s FTSE 100 closes sharply lower, its sixth session in the red

Vivendi in talks to sell stake in music group Universal to China’s Tencent

French media giant wants to break into Chinese music market

Most stocks are flops: just 1% of stocks account for all market gains

Picking the handful of stocks that deliver the bulk of investor returns is seeking a needle in a haystack

Formulating values for AI is hard when humans do not agree

China and the West prioritise different things in algorithms

How artificial intelligence will do our dirty work, take our jobs and change our lives

Machines will do the jobs we don’t like, but what if they also start to beat us at things we enjoy?

Envelope error delays $100bn stock-market listing

Naspers says names and addresses were mixed up on shareholder circulars

Flying taxi start-up plans to create ‘hundreds’ of London tech jobs

Lilium’s prototype electric taxi has a range of 300km in a single charger

Reddit to hire 25 people, including ‘anti-evil’ specialist, for new Dublin office

Controversial online forum confirms plans to establish international office in the capital

Apple spends hundreds of millions on Arcade video game service

Gaming could generate more revenues than TV or news subscriptions

Value investing: is the age-old strategy dead?

Practice has yielded handsome returns in the past but failed to bear fruit in recent years

Revenues and profits soar at Dublin-based Keywords Studios

Company acquired eight businesses last year but also saw a 10% rise in organic growth

Davy upgrades Dublin-based Keywords Studios to ‘outperform’

Upgrade comes despite Keywords recently predicting below-consensus full-year revenue

Keyword Studios predicts full-year pretax profits of about €37m

Dublin-based gaming group also announces deal to buy Sunny Side Up for CAD5.9m

Arrest of Huawei CFO sends shockwaves through China

Changing political environment may not be entirely to Huawei’s advantage

China’s richest capitalist Jack Ma revealed as Communist Party member

Alibaba founder joined the party at college but played down his membership

Should you buy when there’s blood in the streets?

Whatever about the short term, emerging markets can be a very good option

‘Government places huge importance on Ireland’s close relationship with China’

Address by Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphreys

Stripe leads $8m fundraising round for Nigerian start-up

The latest round brings Paystack’s total investment to date to more than $10m

Amazon considering UK insurance comparison site

Three UK industry executives told Reuters they held talks with the US tech giant

Google planning return to China with ‘censored’ search engine – reports

Internet giant left China eight years ago over censorship concerns

Keywords Studios acquires Japanese company for €1.27m

Dublin gaming firm with €1.15bn market value acquired another company last week

WPP in talks with Alibaba and Tencent over tie-up

Advertising group considers sale of stake in Chinese-based business to tech groups

Game on for Keywords Studios as it acquires Canadian company Snowed In

Dublin-headquartered but London-listed gaming company on acquisition trail

HSBC to invest in ‘growth and technology’

Bank plans to spend up to $17bn

Irish video game firm to buy London agency for £5.2m

Keywords Studios swoops for Fire Without Smoke, the latest in a string of acquisitions

Alphabet pops, then drops and a warning from Caterpillar

Stocktake: Investors fret over rising bond yields

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