Washington Post lays off hundreds of employees on one of newspaper’s ‘darkest days’
Billionaire owner Jeff Bezos has not publicly responded to letters and messages sent by staffers urging him to curb cuts
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Walmart’s market value hits $1 trillion for the first time
US retail giant joins club dominated by tech groups
Growth in data centre systems to drop off, Goodbody expects
‘Supply is not currently close to matching demand levels at this stage,’ report says
Melania the movie is a mash-up of Carmela Soprano and Eva Braun on the Zoolander set
Melania is a living demonstration of what happens when 20th century totalitarian kitsch reappears as 21st century luxury branding
Melania Trump is not Rapunzel in the tower, pining to be saved from the ogre imprisoning her
Melania is where she wants to be: in the bosom of a corrupt family that is prostituting the People’s House
A princess, her son and a royal scandal: Norway’s trial of the century begins next week
‘Little prince’ Marius Borg Høiby faces up to 10 years in jail on 38 charges including rape and violence
Trump’s cabinet attends premiere of Amazon‑backed documentary Melania
Amazon studio bought film for $40 million and spent $35 million on marketing
No, objecting to the enormous wealth of billionaires is not begrudgery
Why do we only talk about alleviating poverty, but not controlling runaway wealth?
Nervousness pervades the Irish jobs market as days of strong multinational sector growth recede
Almost 20,000 more people are out of work last month compared with December 2024
Amazon’s Irish operations set for up to 325 layoffs amid wider cost cuts
Move is part of latest round of global redundancies at ecommerce giant, which has more than 6,000 workers in Ireland
No hands, no driver, no problem? San Francisco’s love affair with robo-taxis
As autonomous driving vehicles spread across the Bay area, women are among their keenest users
Number of work permits issued last year drops by almost a quarter
Amazon, Accenture, EY and Google seek largest numbers of permits and Indian citizens were in receipt of almost a third of the total issued
The AI boom is not a bubble
Valuations may be spectacular and a bust could come — but while there’s exuberance there is no mania or irrationality
Tech start-up boss who founded Demonware hopes new AI product will ‘change the game’
Jentic backed by ‘Irish tech mafia and a couple of rugby players’, says Sean Blanchfield
Amazon secures permission to build three data centres in North Dublin
Green light for Amazon Web Services for data centre buildings on site near Mulhuddart
The demise of the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner is a tale the Venetians know well
Recognising a market opportunity isn’t enough, political insulation is now a necessity for companies taking risks
Last-ditch talks avert strikes at cargo airline ASL
Management and union reach deal at Workplace Relations Commission
Pilots at freight airline ASL to strike in week before Christmas
Union accuses carrier of refusing to move talks forward
Happy Black Friday - also known as Insatiable Consumption Day
How ironic that it comes hot on the heels of the save-the-planet summit destined to go down in history as Flop30
Black Friday’s relentless drumbeat
Irish people are likely to spend more than others in Europe over the next weekend despite the perils of online scams
Central Bank warns of risks to Ireland amid ‘stretched’ US tech valuations
Regulator’s report highlights Irish exposure to possible market downturn
‘Unprecedented emissions cuts’ needed to avoid temperature rises making much of world ‘unlivable’
UN climate report shows modest progress but criticises ‘lack of ambition’ ahead of Cop30 summit
OpenAI strikes $38bn computing deal with Amazon
Lossmaking start-up commits to spending close to $1.5tn as it gobbles up processing power
Amazon deal lifts tech stocks as Wall Street rally fizzles
Ryanair lifts Iseq index after reporting record second quarter performance
Apple predicts return to growth as revenue dips in China
Meanwhile, Amazon forecast quarterly revenue largely above Wall Street estimates
Microsoft outage results in email issues, airport delays, and problems for Xbox gamers
Issue related to Microsoft’s Azure Front Door, an entry point for web applications built on a company’s servers
Amazon job cull shows the darker side of artificial intelligence
Having invested hugely in AI, companies are now looking for a dividend in terms of lower costs to keep shareholders happy
Amazon to cut up to 14,000 corporate jobs
Fears for Irish jobs as company compensates for overhiring during pandemic
‘They’re behaving like gangsters’: Will the rest of the world stand up to the US at Cop30?
A strong agreement on methane would be a sign that the rest of the world has not given up and is standing up to the bully
The internet broke again and we all shrugged, but what happens when AI truly comes online?
The world is going all-in on Sam Altman and company’s AI vision but the risks will increase as the points of potential failure grow exponentially
Anthropic, Google in talks on multibillion-dollar cloud deal
The plan would involve Google providing cloud computing services to Anthropic
Amazon Web Services outage underlines vulnerability of web-based society
Companies and governments assume we will always have access to the web these days
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