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Micheál Martin suggests Court of Justice could reject Advocate General’s advice on setting aside 2020 ruling on €13bn of back taxes

European Court of Justice advocate general’s findings has sent shockwaves from Dublin to Silicon Valley

Opinion of key advisor to European Court of Justice comes months ahead of final ruling on world’s biggest antitrust case

Move comes after more than 300 Israeli entrepreneurs wrote an open letter to Habeck calling for a boycott of tech event

Decision will give indication whether iPhone maker will have to pay more than €13bn in tax

Dispute with Epic Games is latest litigation against the tech giant

Revenues would be the equivalent of more than a third of LinkedIn’s global sales

Computer and gadget group struggling with sluggish demand and challenges to its market in China

Courts have been cracking down on social networks’ use of data

Billionaire paid $44 billion for Twitter in 2022. A year on, X has lost more than half its ad revenue and is now worth $19 billion

AI is destined to become our ‘co-pilot’ at work – whether we want one or not

Sundar Pichai testifies in US government’s antitrust case accusing Big Tech company of shutting out competition

Former chief executive Paddy Cosgrave stepped down following backlash over comments made on social media

Gaining market share in the most recent quarter is not evidence of a definitive trend

Alphabet tanked 9.5% after reporting earnings to suffer its worst one-day share price hit since March 2020

One year on from the billionaire’s €43bn takeover, former staff recall the brutal cull at the Irish offices of the tech giant now known as X

Social media firm said in May it would lay off close to 500 staff in Ireland

Shares in online retailer climb in extended trading

The event’s economic impact for Lisbon and Portugal is estimated at €300 million a year

Revenue from firm’s cloud business beats forecasts

Search giant’s shares drop after weaker than expected earnings

Google, Meta and Amazon unable to provide Oireachtas committee with specific data on fraud activity it reports to Garda

Events group strongly identified with the dominant leadership of its founder Paddy Cosgrave now putting faith in leadership by committee

Website has taken posts mainly from the social media platform and lists workers who have posted about the Israel-Hamas conflict

Talks planned weeks before company fined €345m in September for breaches of European data law

Event management group scrambles to limit damage as departing chief executive concedes comments on Israel-Hamas conflict had become ‘distraction’

Web Summit chief executive said his comments had become ‘a distraction from the event’ taking place in Lisbon next month

New service aims to reduce spam and bot activity on social media platform

Test rolled on in New Zealand and Philippines so far

Meal delivery company sees growth in Ireland, Britain and northern Europe

Microsoft-owned company has yet to inform the Government of its plans for collective redundancies

LinkedIn has its European headquarters in Dublin

Israeli ambassador to Portugal accuses Web Summit chief executive of making ‘outrageous statements’

Irish Data Protection Commission fined Chinese tech giant last month

Digital Services Commissioner tells RTÉ Morning Ireland making complaints to social media companies about alleged misinformation and disinformation ‘not a waste of time’

Anu Talus, the Finnish chair of the European Data Protection Board, the central body of national regulators overseeing EU data privacy laws, defends opposition to Irish watchdog’s fines

The chipmaker boss is on a mission to revitalise the company

Tech giant says it will contest US agency’s claim over use of ‘transfer pricing’ scheme

New CEO Linda Yaccarino says advertisers are returning to platform but with lower budgets as revenues grow in high single digits

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