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Seven mega-cap stocks were responsible for almost all the S&P 500′s gains in 2023

Tech giant had been criticised for falling behind on the AI curve

Karlin Lillington: I’d like to think we’ve reached a moment of reconsideration where people will opt for an open web model with more freedom, less surveillance, and greater user control

Solid financial performance across US tech giants has buoyed confidence on Wall Street at an important moment

Expleo survey highlights wage pressures and impact of skills shortages on operations

Big tech bests analys expectations after largely missing estimates over the last four quarters

Analysts say gains are largely linked to firms with AI technologies and are concerned by market’s extreme imbalance

Strong tech results ease Wall Street concerns about lenders

Company, which employs 5,500 people in Ireland, posts revenues of $69m

Credit Suisse reported client outflows of €64 billion in first quarter

Euronext Dublin escaped the worst of it, outperforming international peers as it finished the day up 0.5 per cent

One internal email axing snacks and massages is hardly a sign of another dotcom-style crash. But massive industry job cuts could be

Could we pay a single supplier a subscription to access the internet and interact with all of its content, without any further charges or ads?

Critics claim the technology carries alarming risks and needs better governance

Apple, Microsoft, and Alphabet account for almost all of S&P 500′s gains in the first quarter

In response, Microsoft says it has a healthy number two position in cloud services, with just over 20% share of global services revenues

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Users in the UK and US can test the conversational artificial intelligence service

Latest lay-offs add to 18,000 staff culled in January as company cuts costs following tech downturn

FSU says ‘hundreds’ of staff at Irish office signed letter which was distributed to others by its members

CSO’s new dataset on monthly estimates of payroll employees points to continued momentum in economy

The tech sector celebrates the consolidation of power in new industry leaders, but SVB’s collapse may change that

Latest job losses are linked to January announcement of 10,000 job cuts worldwide

Move comes following January announcement that parent company Alphabet would shed 12,000 jobs globally

Stocktake: Signs of hope after a rough 2022 but stocks are unlikely to sustain strong performance in a high interest-rate environment

Alphabet shares lost $100bn in value last week after Google’s chatbot Bard made an error in a promotional video

Mac and iPhone maker held off from the wave of hiring across the sector during the pandemic

CEOs fire workers swiftly and brutally, but such actions have destructive long-term effects for companies and staff

New chatbot shared inaccurate information in a promotional video and a company event failed to dazzle

Amazon, Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft reveal the hefty price tag as they rein in spending

Google parent’s digital ad business struggled

The internet search giant may be hesitant to wield in the AI arms race many of the weapons at its disposal

Music streaming group adds subscribers but is hit by rise in operating expenses

Relationships with major ad platforms can be reconfigured in wake of ‘real challenges’, says Aditya Kishore

Google has grown enormously since setting up here 20 years ago, but now faces uncertainty

Tech giant is latest firm to announce thousands of job cuts

Just six stocks – Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, Tesla and Meta – were responsible for one-third of the MSCI world index’s 19.5% fall last year

Long-held duopoly that rules the $300bn market is hit by growing competition from Amazon, Microsoft and Apple

The penalty hits at the heart of the US tech giant’s power over the Android mobile phone ecosystem

Investigation centred on allegations by 40 states that the search giant illegally tracked users’ locations