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PwC Ireland announces new dedicated GenAI Business Centre, enabled by Microsoft

PwC Ireland is delighted to announce the expansion of its strategic AI collaboration with Microsoft into Ireland involving the launch of the PwC GenAI Business Centre, enabled by Microsoft technology.

Microsoft to appeal $28.9bn tax decision

US Internal Revenue Service decision relates to a 2012 audit into transfer pricing involving the company

Microsoft to avoid further EU probe in €64 billion Activision deal following tweaks

The deal has been hampered by regulators in Europe and the US

Microsoft’s Activision deal set to get UK’s CMA approval

The bid had been blocked by the UK regulator but a revised proposal is set to be approved

Skies darken for streaming as cloud gaming fails to take off

There have been plenty of attempts to lure gamers away from consoles to the cloud but it may be some time before it become the norm, writes Jonathan Keane

British regulator seeks public input on Microsoft-Activision deal

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) had previously blocked the deal in April

Microsoft secures planning for €100m gas plant to power data centre

Tech giant in the final stages of building 170-megawatt back-up facility in case of restricted national grid electricity supply

China dismisses Microsoft hacking claims as ‘disinformation’

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said the accusation is aimed at diverting attention from US cyberattacks on China

Microsoft’s market cap hits record $2.6 trillion amid AI surge

Tech giant becomes the third mega-cap technology firm to scale new heights this year driven by optimism over generative artificial intelligence

Three multinationals accounted for one third of all corporate tax receipts from 2017-2021

Research paper from the Irish Fiscal Advisory council estimates that just three large companies paid over €5.2bn in corporate tax to the state in 2021

Artificial Intelligence

Google launching tools to identify misleading and AI images

The tech giant to mark every AI-generated image created by its tools

Government must be ‘extremely cautious’ in how it spends corporation tax billions – McGrath

The Minister for Finance said that windfall receipts now account for a growing proportion of the overall corporate tax take

Lorcan Allen: Spending surging corporate taxes wisely will require strict political discipline

With the corporate tax rate increasing to 15 per cent next year, there is a real risk of overheating the economy if the extra revenue is spent domestically

Top ten multinationals account for record 60 per cent of corporate tax take

Recent reforms could lead to an extra €3 billion to €4 billion in corporate tax receipts

Microsoft paid more than 15 per cent of Ireland’s total corporate tax take since 2020

Accounts filed by a number of entities controlled by the Big Tech firm reveal how the State has become increasingly reliant on just a handful of large US multinationals

Connected Magazine

How to counter productivity paranoia in a hybrid world

Remote-working staff are being dragged back to the office by employers who have vague concerns not backed up by data, writes Paul Hearns

Data centre giants warn minister over delays to back-up energy permits

Microsoft, Amazon and Google seek to expedite applications to EPA for industrial emissions licences needed to ease any future power emergencies

Irish Google employees to hear of jobs outcome within weeks

The tech giant plans to cut its global workforce by 12,000 and will carry out an assessment on its Irish operations to assess the level of job cuts here

Business Post's View

Editorial: Tech growth unlikely to come off the tracks despite layoffs

Job cuts in Google and Microsoft are a response to shareholder pressure to lower costs, rather than a crisis

Concerns for Irish workforce as Microsoft to cut ‘thousands of jobs’

Tech giant is expected to become latest firm to announce significant layoffs later this week