An application by businessman Denis O’Brien’s aimed at accessing documents held in the Dropbox account of an employee of Red Flag Consulting has been struck out after the parties came to an agreement, the High Court has heard.

Dropbox is introducing a new feature called Project Infinite, and it's about to make our lives easier.

Efforts are continuing to try and reach agreement about the amount of computer material a Dublin-based consulting firm must provide for photographing by experts for businessman Denis O’Brien in legal proceedings against the firm.

Irish biotechnology startup Nuritas has landed a $3.2m (€2.89m) investment deal courtesy of a cohort of backers from across the globe.

The Irish arm of social media giant Twitter last year returned to profit, new documents show.

A Waterford technology firm has been named as one of the world’s ‘most promising’ by the World Economic Forum.

WhatsApp has been given the lowest rating for privacy on the annual scorecard from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

OnePlus launched a one-week sale of its One handset last week, but has been so impressed by sales that it decided to cut the price of the device permanently.

THIS column is a warning and an apology. At bedtime last Thursday, I hit the scratcher and went to sleep. An hour later, my phone chirped. It was a text. Would I emerge from a good dream to deal with it? No. Just as sleep reclaimed me, the phone chirped that it had an email. 

If anyone was in the slightest doubt how much technology touches all our lives, they only have to look to the success of the annual Web Summit in Dublin.

Europe’s largest annual technology event, the Web Summit gets underway in Dublin from today.

In addition to the tens of thousands of attendees, thousands of start-ups, and hundreds of investors, this year’s Web Summit will bring more than €100m in revenue to the Dublin economy over the next three days.

For the next three days, Dublin is the online capital of the world, as hundreds of tech experts take to the podium for this year’s Web Summit.

Around 22,000 people will arrive in Dublin over the next three days to attend the 2014 Web Summit.

Cloud storage site Dropbox has moved to deny claims it has been hacked after an anonymous account posted what it claims is the username and passwords of hundreds of the site’s users.

With a host of big-name speakers already announced, organisers of the Web Summit hinted a few last minute surprises are on the cards.

Katrina Brooker meets the tech investors with the Midas touch

YOU don’t have to be immersed in the tech sector to know it has a reputation for not being female-friendly.

One of the world’s most popular file-storage companies, which has its European hub in Dublin, has confirmed a glitch in its system meant that users’ private files, including financial information, could be accessed by a third party.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other Silicon Valley leaders have formally launched a political group aimed at revamping immigration policy, boosting education and encouraging investment in scientific research.

A Google research paper highlights the lack of protection passwords offer internet users and the growing need to reinvent the authentication system to ensure safe surfing.

Global cloud computing company, Dropbox has selected Dublin as the location for its international headquarters, in something of a coup for the Government in its bid to make Ireland a European hub for the world’s leading digital companies.

Up to 440 jobs are to be created in the health, finance, and technology sectors thanks to announcements by three companies yesterday.

Up to 240 jobs are to be created in two separate announcements, with Kildare and Dublin first to benefit.

Google is hoping to build the world’s largest digital filing cabinet in the latest attempt to deepen people’s dependence on its services.

Google is hoping to build the world’s largest digital filing cabinet in the latest attempt to deepen people’s dependence on its services.

The Edge and Bono hope to buck trend with their Dropbox deal, writes Stephen Rogers