Apple is set to spend €1.7 billion ($1.93 billion) on two new European data centers, one in Ireland and one in Denmark. The Galway and Jutland data centers will each measure… Read more »
Back in June, the European Commission started sniffing around Apple’s tax arrangements in Ireland, to see whether the Irish government’s acceptance of the firm’s elaborate tax avoidance tricks amounted to unlawful… Read more »
Facebook(s fb)’s emotional manipulation study has shocked many people for its apparent breach of research ethics (700,000 subjects had no idea they were being manipulated), and it has raised the alarm… Read more »
An Irish judge has asked the Court of Justice of the European Union to say whether it was OK for the country’s data protection watchdog to refuse to investigate the alleged… Read more »
Search warrants issued by American courts allow law enforcement agents to search a place. Until now, it is clear that such places could only be in the U.S. Read more »
European authorities want to know if the Irish tax authorities’ deal with Apple unfairly advantages the company or a specific group of companies. If it does, it may constitute illegal state… Read more »
Google(s goog) is working on a major upgrade for its Flight Search service — in Europe at least — judging by a Sunday interview with Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary in the… Read more »
The Irish Data Protection Commissioner, who regulates online privacy for most of the world, is looking into Adobe’s mega-breach last year, in which the details of at least 38 million people… Read more »
Ireland’s government is pulling out all the stops to brand the country as a hotbed of technology. But marketing alone is not enough for Ireland — or any other country –… Read more »
Twitter(s twtr)’s post-IPO path to prosperity presses on: the company has opened up its self-serve advertising platform to companies outside the U.S. Small-to-medium-sized businesses in the UK, Ireland and Canada get… Read more »