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Equities dip and oil slides as global risk rally stalls
- Markets
- January 22, 2021, 18:32
Global equity benchmarks slipped from record highs and oil prices dipped on Friday as weaker economic data in Japan and Europe and concerns that newly(...)

Biden has promised to ‘restore the soul of America’ but what might that mean for Ireland?
- Economy
- January 22, 2021, 05:30
The ascendance to the White House this week of Joe Biden brought to an end four years of turbulence under his predecessor Donald Trump. The new US pre(...)

Parler sues Amazon after it ends web-hosting services
- Technology
- January 12, 2021, 07:59
Parler, the conservative social media platform whose traffic has surged amid a crackdown on inflammatory content by its rivals, sued Amazon. com for e(...)

Apple, Amazon suspend Parler social network from App Store, web hosting service
- Technology
- January 10, 2021, 11:35
Apple Inc and Amazon. com Inc have suspended Parler from their respective App Store and web hosting service, saying the social networking service popu(...)

No promise of a happy new year for Big Tech as EU and US lawmakers bear down
- Technology
- January 5, 2021, 05:50
Big Tech is stepping into a year where the only certainty is that there will be much unwelcome uncertainty. And with so many of the major technology p(...)

US stocks end tumultuous year at record high
- Markets
- January 1, 2021, 11:06
US stocks finished 2020 with a gain of more than 16 per cent - well above the historical average - after a technology sector-led rally pulled Wall Str(...)

Google, Facebook ‘agreed to team up’ against possible antitrust action
- Technology
- December 22, 2020, 07:10
Facebook and Alphabet’s Google agreed to “cooperate and assist one another” in case of an investigation into their pact to work together in online adv(...)

Brexit fears weigh on European markets
- Markets
- December 7, 2020, 20:33
European stocks retreated as concern over the possible collapse of Brexit trade-deal talks weighed on sentiment. Meanwhile in the US, the Nasdaq clim(...)

Chinese scientists claim quantum computer breakthrough
- World
- December 6, 2020, 15:33
Chinese scientists claim to have built a quantum computer that is able to perform certain computations nearly 100 trillion times faster than the world(...)

Flutter to buy out US business in €3.4bn deal
- Retail & Services
- December 3, 2020, 13:10
Paddy Power owner Flutter Entertainment plans to buy out backers including Google Ventures and New York-based investor KKR to take 95 per cent of its (...)