Companies Meta urged to avoid compulsory layoffs as it moves cuts 500 jobs in IrelandFinancial Services Union calls on Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to reach out to the company and ensure it is implementing redundancies in a fair manner
Jobs Coveney did not raise issue of Irish staff cuts with Meta boss After Facebook’s parent announced global layoffs in March, the minister sent a letter to Nick Clegg, head of global affairs, supporting the firm’s future plans in Ireland
Tech It’s business as usual on data transfers despite Meta rulingProposed new legislation means it is unlikely the Facebook parent company will have to pay the DPC’s €1.2 billion fine
Companies Meta lobbies Taoiseach and Tánaiste over EU ban on data transfersThe owner of Facebook has asked Leo Varadkar, Micheál Martin and Simon Coveney for support in bid to help prevent a EU ban on it sending users’ information to the United States
Big Tech Lucinda Creighton: Meta’s €1.2bn fine is wholly appropriate, and not before timeThe tech giant has promised over and over to do the right thing each time it is caught out misusing private data, but it never truly changes
Economy ‘Uninterrupted economic growth cannot last forever’ - Tánaiste Micheál Martin says the 500 Meta job losses are ‘very significant'
Meta Nick Clegg touts Metaverse to Simon Coveney as way to boost Irish education Emails between tech giant’s Global Affairs President and Minister for Enterprise sent six weeks before Meta confirmed 500 more jobs cuts in Ireland
Tech Facebook-parent Meta to cut close to 500 jobs in IrelandFinal number of redundancies is dependent on a collective consultation process with employees
Tech Facebook-owner Meta must hand over data to European regulators in anti-competitive probeThe tech giant is being investigated over its sales platform and use of data
Tech Fears for Irish jobs in Meta’s latest round of layoffsRedundancies are part of a plan announced in March by Facebook’s parent company
Tech WhatsApp introduces ‘edit within 15 minutes’ function for messages The Meta-owned app said new feature would be available to all users within the coming weeks
Tech Analysis: Meta’s ‘innocent bystander’ act in data transfer dogfight is disingenuous following record fine Given Meta has pumped $10 billion a year on the metaverse, for no real return, it is unlikely to break into a sweat over the DPC’s €1.2bn fine
Tech Facebook fined €1.2bn, ordered to halt EU-US data transfersPenalty easily eclipses the previous record €746m fine levied by EU regulators on Amazon in July 2021
Legal Irish Data Protection Commission to order Meta to stop data transfers to US as firm faces EU fineDecision will only target Facebook and won’t affect other Meta services
Tech 75 per cent of Irish Data Protection Commissioner decisions overruled, according to reportWhile critical in particular of the Irish office, the study said the EU’s enforcement as a whole is weak
Tech Survivor’s guilt: As Big Tech downsizes, workers left behind try to pick up the piecesMuch of the focus during recent swingeing tech cuts has been on workers who have been laid off – but things aren’t straightforward for those remaining in their roles, with some companies even running ‘grief sessions’ to try and help
Artificial Intelligence Meta introduces AI tools to create ads and predict performanceCompany as been under pressure to rediscover growth in its core digital advertising business
Legal Facebook must face privacy suit over Cambridge AnalyticaJudge concludes Facebook board cannot be trusted to investigate the scandal
Tech ESB unaware it was undercharging Meta until tech giant tipped it offThe energy regulator is investigating if there is a ‘systemic’ problem with ESB’s billing system after Business Post revelation
Energy Regulator investigating ‘systemic’ issues in ESB system after Meta was undercharged for 18 monthsAn ESB error led to the Facebook owner being undercharged for power at Clonee data centre due to substation technical fault