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

Irish index ends week slightly higher

‘We can’t wait for Government to address the skill gaps in society, we believe industry has to step in here’

Revenue from firm’s cloud business beats forecasts

The US Justice Department’s antitrust trial against Google will, whatever the outcome, influence the future of technology in ways we cannot yet imagine

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

LinkedIn has its European headquarters in Dublin

Deal worth $69bn is the largest in gaming history

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

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic want technology such as chatbots to learn from a ‘constitution’ to keep them from generating toxic content

CSO figures show the largest annual increase in employee numbers was in the financial, insurance and real estate sector

While the S&P 500 is still up 11% this year, it is entirely due to tech giants which are up 81%

Satya Nadella testifies he had explored whether Apple would switch to agreement with Bing

Microsoft chief executive set to give evidence on Monday

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Network followed by 95,000 accounts sought to ‘intensify social conflict’ with divisive posts

Irish agri-services group Origin Enterprises rose 3.5 per cent in Dublin after it said revenue rose last year

Staff at the company have raised more than €1.1 million over a decade

Tech giant says the facility will create a ‘large number of permanent jobs’ once fully operational

CRH marked its last day of trading in Dublin with a 1.5 per cent gain

High-stakes antitrust trial begins as US enforcers look to rein in Big Tech’s power

AI will change the world, analyst says, but investors should be wary of a ‘great company priced beyond perfection’.

Apple’s App Store and Google’s YouTube among those that will need to overhaul practices as EU competition law bites

EU aims to curb Big Tech as it lists services to be regulated under Digital Markets Act

Hedge funds hold record exposure to Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Tesla and Meta, but the grouping has been underperforming of late

There’s an official theme song by Imagine Dragons and a reported $200 million budget

Investors had worried Google’s search dominance was under threat from Microsoft-backed ChatGPT

Iseq index recovers 0.6% after Wednesday’s 1.3% decline

Markets had been carried by a handful of tech giants for first five months of the year but now smaller stocks are showing strong returns

World’s biggest advertising agency lowers annual guidance after technology companies reduce marketing spend

Slowdown in growth at ecommerce company’s cloud division proves less severe than anticipated

Government's risk assessment notes focus of exports on small number of sectors dominated by multinationals leaves State vulnerable

Concerns tech giant will gain distribution advantages by not allowing choice over access to video conferencing app

Alphabet and Microsoft report combined net profit of more than $38 billion

Planet Business: Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal extension, Danone and Carlsberg’s Russian operations and Barbie, 2023-style

Tech firms to present guardrails amid fears of out of control AI

Tech giant’s chief Satya Nadella defends premium price for new version of office software

At home, Iseq Overall Index finished the day up 40 basis points, which was largely in line with international peers

Huge gains for Big Tech this year mean Nasdaq will have to undergo a ‘special rebalance’ next week

Investigation will centre on claims US tech giant is unfairly linking its videoconferencing app with popular software