Connected Stepping back out of the officeAs we lurch from the Covid pandemic to a cost of living crisis the very nature of work remains in a state of flux. With employees and management often pulling in different directions, is it too much to ask tech to bridge the gap?
Companies Tesla’s Irish turnover hits €43.5m as Model 3 sales continue to spikeIrish arm of Elon Musk-founded company reported a slight drop in profits as it continued to expand its operations in this country
The Last Post Matt Cooper: Avolon boss’s €150m plan to bring the brightest and best here could pay offIt will be considered elitist by some, but Dómhnal Slattery’s proposal to attract the ‘best brainpower in the world’ to Ireland to carry out research here could bring big rewards
The Big Picture Vincent Boland: A €16bn valuation gap is enough to give anyone the Twitter jittersElon Musk is now wriggling to escape a trap of his own making in his pursuit of the social media platform, but whatever the outcome, Musk owns this debacle
The Last Post Matt Cooper: Is Denis O’Brien hoping out of sight is out of mind on the Siteserv findings?The billionaire businessman, in the past notably litigious and visible in the media, has stayed silent as the draft findings of the Siteserv inquiry emerge
profile Shadow dancing: Meet Marc Andreessen, the billionaire ‘shitposter’ who is central to Elon Musk’s Twitter bidThe mega-wealthy founder of Netscape is one of the so-called ‘shadow crew’ behind his friend Elon Musk’s ongoing attempt to take over the social media giant
twitter Market realities? Disgruntled Tesla investors? An emptying wallet? What exactly is behind Elon Musk’s Twitter jitters? The billionaire’s pockets may be feeling a little lighter as he wavers on his proposed purchase
twitter Elon Musk says $44bn Twitter deal is temporarily on holdShares in the social media company slumped 11 per cent pre-market after Musk’s tweet, while Tesla’s gained as much as 4.9 per cent
column Willie O’Reilly: Billionaire barons abound in the media gameAs Elon Musk is poised to buy Twitter for $44 billion, we should be more aware than ever of the power that the global elites have to control the mainstream media
twitter Matt Cooper: Our president’s generalisations about private enterprise are not helpfulWe may not agree with Elon Musk but the reality is that he and other billionaire entrepreneurs have done a great deal to accelerate innovations to combat the climate crisis
Aidan Regan: Why the takeover of the digital town hall by the richest man on the planet is a bad ideaDespite his claims, Elon Musk has no idea how to promote free speech online while maintaining the values of liberal democracy
Editorial: It will be up to governments and not Musk to regulate TwitterThe billionaire’s expected takeover of the platform may turn out well or badly, but the outrage over it is a trifle contrived
Twitter takeover: Can we trust Elon Musk with the ‘closest thing we have to a global consciousness’?If the tycoon sets the social media platform on an anything-goes path of free speech absolutism, he will quickly run up against stringent new European laws which were agreed last weekend
Willie O’Reilly: A Musk-owned Twitter must protect more than ‘free speech’It remains to be seen how the world’s wealthiest man will change the world’s most powerful social media platform, which he is set to buy for $44 billion
Comment: Elon Musk owns the town square now — might he be tempted to offer free parking to Tesla? The human impulse towards acquisition is age-old and likely behind the billionaire’s purchase of Twitter
Motoring: BMW answers Musk with brilliant electric i4The impressive new i4 is a fitting reaction to the Tesla chief’s recent jibes about ‘legacy automakers’
Elon Musk agrees to buy Twitter for $44bnBillionaire says he will make social media platform a bastion of free speech
Elon Musk and Twitter in ‘final stretch of negotiations’ $43 billion sale of social media company ‘could be agreed today’
Elon Musk meets Twitter executives as company considers deal Social media giant now ‘more open’ to discussing billionaire’s takeover offer
Matt Cooper: Megalomanic Musk plays to his fanboys with his ‘disruptive’ bid for TwitterThe Tesla and SpaceX millionaire has cited free speech concerns and ‘the future of civilisation’ as driving his Twitter ambitions.