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Brussels looks into Google and Meta secret ads deal to target teens
Regulators request information after FT investigation intopartnership that skirted search giant’s rules on minors
Advertising revenues set to hit $1tn in market dominated by technology companies
Omnicom and Interpublic in talks to merge in $30bn-plus deal to create the world’s largest advertising agency
Google split still ‘on the table,’ EU’s new antitrust chief warns
Teresa Ribera plans to build on ‘legacy’ of predecessor Vestager
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Margrethe Vestager, the world’s pioneering tech cop, is making her exit
EU’s antitrust enforcer leaves Brussels proud of her tenure but conscious that it had been only ‘partly successful’
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Facebook parent’s Irish arm pays €900m dividend as profit rises
Social media giant sees turnover near €70bn
Sinn Féin asks Sipo if it declared previous election spending correctly
Party’s online spending has significantly decreased over the course of the general election campaign, new figures show
Apple and Google facing UK probe over mobile browser dominance
Tech giants can manipulate consumer choices to make Safari and Chrome ‘clearest, easiest option’, UK regulator says
How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment
Evidence in three trials shows that even as the internet giant stored the world’s information, it created an office culture that tried to minimise its own
US regulators will push Google to sell Chrome browser
Owning the world’s most popular web browser has been key for Google’s ads business
Meta fined nearly €800m for breaking EU law over classified ads practices
Facebook is undermining rivals by ‘tying’ its free Marketplace services with the social network, Brussels says
Google Ireland head Vanessa Hartley: ‘Number one priority is making sure that we bring AI to Ireland’
Waterford native is taking the helm of the search engine giant’s Irish arm at what is likely to be a pivotal moment for the company
It turns out your air fryer might be listening, sending data to China
UK consumer protection advocates Which? found that certain air fryers gather personal data that has little or no relevance to the functioning of the product
Will Wall Street allow Big Tech to make AI work?
Investors are notoriously fickle – will they give big firms the space to utilise artificial intelligence?
Donald Trump’s deportation agenda overlooks immigration’s role in US success
Infusing new people into the workforce is ‘not just desirable’ but ‘economically necessary’, says chief executive
Mobile wallets cement status as most popular form of contactless payment
Central Bank statistics show card payments overall declined in September compared to August, but contactless and NFC transactions have surged over past year
Light touch regulation did not work with banks and won’t work for video sharing platforms like TikTok
Coimisiún na Meán’s online safety code for video-sharing platforms contains echoes of the 2008 banking crisis
Why a Donald Trump election win could signal the end of Ireland’s golden years
A Trump victory in the US presidential election would constitute a seismic shift in our overall international strategy
Will nuclear really power the AI boom?
Microsoft, Google and Amazon are all eyeing nuclear power to supply their data centres with low-carbon energy
Google TV Streamer 4K review: Smartening up your home TV
Upgrade offers relatively inexpensive way to get all your streaming content in one place
Google establishes AI education programmes for Irish students
Artificial intelligence initiatives will be delivered through Kinia and Adapt
As Google faces possible break-up, investors bet on business as usual
The last big tech antitrust case, against Microsoft in 2001, did not result in a break-up of the company
No pension, no planes: Boeing standoff reveals how far company has fallen
Planet Business: Rooney lawyer’s Nobu deal, a homebuilder gets its sums wrong and the US department of justice outlines how it could take on Google
Google fails to halt data watchdog’s probe into account sign-up process
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission is examining whether Google’s account creation process is compliant
US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case
Justice department could seek ‘structural remedies’ such as forced product sales after judge’s ruling of illegal monopoly in search
US weighs Google break-up as part of search case remedy
Justice Department tells judge he could also force Google to provide underlying data used for search results, AI products
Google to make finance advertisers show they have Central Bank approval
Tech firm tightening rules in effort to improve fraud prevention
Vodafone, Google deepen AI ties across Europe, Africa
Strategic partnership is a 10-year deal to bring Google’s AI devices to customers
Investors look beyond Nvidia and the magnificent seven
Increasingly confident investors looking beyond tech giants, suggesting reign may be over — for now at least
California governor vetoes bill to regulate artificial intelligence
Gavin Newsom agreed with leading AI companies that the legislation would have stifled innovation
Is all the investment pumped into AI really worth it?
With humans outperforming the technology in a recent exploratory trial, equipping such systems with the autonomy to carry out their own actions raises questions of practicality, ethics and philosophy
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