Zuckerberg follows Musk’s Twitter by launching subscription services for Facebook and InstagramAs ad sales stall, Meta has announced that it is to charge users for additional services
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
Business Post's View Editorial: Tech growth unlikely to come off the tracks despite layoffsJob cuts in Google and Microsoft are a response to shareholder pressure to lower costs, rather than a crisis
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
Banking Bank of Ireland freezes investor withdrawals from €70m European Real Estate FundMove comes as bank writes down value of its main property investment fund
Companies Irish Data Protection Commission contacts Twitter after hackers reportedly leak 235m email addressesRegulator 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
Companies Sinead McSweeney settles with Twitter after action over job cuts by Elon MuskTwitter’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
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
Tech Irish Twitter boss emailed Enterprise department over job cutsSinéad McSweeney offered to update officials over concerns for staff after Musk takeover of social media giant
Tech Twitter stops policing Covid-19 misinformation under MuskMore 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
Connected Start-ups get set to flex their musclesCan Ireland be a start-up ‘superpower’ in an economic downturn? Jonathan Keane investigates
Connected Welcome to MastodonIs Mastodon more than just a substitute for Twitter? Paul Hearns takes a look
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
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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
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Tech Mass layoffs at Twitter could hinder severance payoutsJob cuts expected to exceed 140 announced as absence of key HR staff could delay payments for others departing
Tech Twitter notifies Varadkar of 140 Irish redundancies Figure is lower than the 250 job cuts previously reported
Tech Musk celebrates new Twitter usage high as engineers flee companyTwitter 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
Tech Musk tells staff to accept ‘hardcore’ Twitter or leave Twitter employees must make online pledge by Thursday or quit
