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Twitter

Zuckerberg follows Musk’s Twitter by launching subscription services for Facebook and Instagram

As ad sales stall, Meta has announced that it is to charge users for additional services
  • Bloomberg
  • February 19, 2023
Companies

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
  • Lorcan Allen
  • January 21, 2023
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
  • Business Post
  • January 21, 2023
Companies

Sinéad McSweeney resigned as Twitter director the day before settling action with firm

Company’s global vice-president for public policy took legal action against the company after a chaotic series of layoffs instigated by Elon Musk in November
  • Donal MacNamee
  • January 20, 2023
Banking

Bank of Ireland freezes investor withdrawals from €70m European Real Estate Fund

Move comes as bank writes down value of its main property investment fund
  • Lorcan Allen
  • January 14, 2023
Companies

Irish Data Protection Commission contacts Twitter after hackers reportedly leak 235m email addresses

Regulator said it had not established whether the apparent new leak would form part of an investigation it launched into an earlier batch of Twitter leaks last December
  • Donal MacNamee
  • January 6, 2023
Companies

Sinead McSweeney settles with Twitter after action over job cuts by Elon Musk

Twitter’s global vice-president for public policy had secured an injunction preventing Twitter from terminating her employment amid swingeing job cuts imposed by its billionaire owner
  • Donal MacNameeand
  • Bloomberg
  • December 20, 2022
Twitter

EU warns Musk of sanctions over Twitter ban of journalists

Twitter suspended the accounts of several prominent journalists — including from the Washington Post, CNN, and the New York Times — covering the social network’s billionaire owner Elon Musk
  • Business Post
  • December 16, 2022
Tech

Irish Twitter boss emailed Enterprise department over job cuts

Sinéad McSweeney offered to update officials over concerns for staff after Musk takeover of social media giant
  • Peter O'Dwyerand
  • Cónal Thomas
  • December 10, 2022
Tech

Twitter stops policing Covid-19 misinformation under Musk

More than 11,000 accounts had been suspended and over 97,000 pieces of misleading content removed from the time Twitter introduced its policy in January 2020
  • Cónal Thomas
  • November 30, 2022
Connected

Start-ups get set to flex their muscles

Can Ireland be a start-up ‘superpower’ in an economic downturn? Jonathan Keane investigates
  • Jonathan Keane
  • November 26, 2022
Connected

Welcome to Mastodon

Is Mastodon more than just a substitute for Twitter? Paul Hearns takes a look
  • Paul Hearns
  • November 26, 2022
Connected

Life after Stripe and Meta: Techies look to their next move

Recruiters tell Alex Meehan which areas are hot for those looking for a new job
  • Alex Meehan
  • November 25, 2022
Morning Headlines

Mica homeowners in new property tax row; DPC puts Twitter under the microscope

The stories you need to read this morning in business, politics and current affairs
  • Business Post
  • November 25, 2022
Tech Regulation

Data Protection Commission seeks clarity from Twitter over Brussels office closure

Key location for tech giant to engage in European regulation had been reduced to just two executives following Elon Musk’s staff cuts
  • Cónal Thomasand
  • Charlie Taylor
  • November 25, 2022
Today's headlines

Ryan warns industry over climate change cost; New poll shows rising prices are hitting consumers

The top stories from business and politics in today’s Business Post
  • Business Post
  • November 20, 2022
Tech

Mass layoffs at Twitter could hinder severance payouts

Job cuts expected to exceed 140 announced as absence of key HR staff could delay payments for others departing
  • Barry J Whyteand
  • Donal MacNamee
  • November 19, 2022
Tech

Twitter notifies Varadkar of 140 Irish redundancies

Figure is lower than the 250 job cuts previously reported
  • Donal MacNamee
  • November 18, 2022
Tech

Musk celebrates new Twitter usage high as engineers flee company

Twitter decided to abruptly shut its offices on Thursday after many employees reacted negatively to Musk’s ultimatum of either staying for a new “hardcore” work environment or leaving with three months’ severance
  • Bloomberg
  • November 18, 2022
Tech

Musk tells staff to accept ‘hardcore’ Twitter or leave

Twitter employees must make online pledge by Thursday or quit
  • Bloomberg
  • November 16, 2022

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