In letters seen by the Irish Examiner, Mr Harris has called internet company bosses to a meeting to focus on how to combat the spread of misinformation about vaccinations.

Allianz has secured a High Court injunction against an Irish-based financial services company that is the subject of a warning from the Central Bank.

Google Ireland paid just under €171m in tax last year, as turnover increased by almost €6bn to more than €32bn on the back of strong advertising revenues.

Google Ireland paid almost €163.8m in tax last year on sales that jumped to €26.3bn.

The weather is attracting major investment into Ireland.

Google has launched an app that lets parents monitor their children’s screen time, internet use, and set a bedtime on devices.

The Data Protection Commissioner and Google have urged the High Court to overturn a finding in favour of a man in the first “right to be forgotten” case here concerning internet postings.

Ryanair is suing Google and eDreams, a flight and hotel booking website, claiming they are infringing its trademark rights by directing people searching for its flights to the eDreams site.

According to leading migration agents visafirst.com, improvements in the economy and business sentiment are some of the reasons why 2016 is on track to be a record year for the issuing of Irish work permits.

Google is bringing 1916 to life by offering a virtual tour of the key sites, streets and events of the Rising.

Irish entrepreneurs will have access to a global network of partners that should allow them scale at a faster rate after Dogpatch Labs became the first Irish member of Google’s Entrepreneurs Tech Hub Network.

The High Court has ordered Eircom to disclose the name and address of an anonymous emailer who distributed an allegedly defamatory letter about a waste collection company to public bodies and media organisations.

Up to €1bn more is likely to be invested this year by the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, the State-backed vehicle which has replaced the National Pensions Reserve Fund.

Google Ireland boss John Herlihy is to leave the company at the end of April.

The Government has moved to play down comments by US president Barack Obama that American companies are using legal loopholes to save tax by setting up headquarters in Ireland.

The amount of corporation tax Google paid in Ireland last year jumped by nearly €11m to €27.7m.

An eight-year-old schoolgirl has beaten students more than twice her age to become the overall winner of this year’s Doodle 4 Google competition.

It seems Irish people aren’t just a bunch of screen addicts after all. The first survey of Irish YouTube users shows regular visitors to the site are more likely to go to the cinema, concerts and restaurants than non-users.

Management at Greencore remain confident that improving consumer sentiment in its core market of the UK has not plateaued and that it can continue to see revenues recover there.

Fianna Fáil Senator Thomas Byrne claims he has been grossly defamed by internet giant Google after it published a picture of convicted solicitor Thomas Byrne alongside the politician’s profile on the Google knowledge graph.

A high-powered think tank made up of leading business and financial figures is being put together to drive the €250m Limerick 2030 plan drawn up to revive the city.

Jobs minister Richard Bruton has established a joint industry/government ‘task force’ charged with developing the rapidly growing Big Data sector in Ireland.

AS THE Government ratchets up the pressure on struggling families by introducing an array of new taxes, the question of whether multinational companies are paying their fair share is timely.

From pharma to social networks and from trade to tax, companies in Ireland last year experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly. Kyran Fitzgerald takes a look back at the big issues that firms were faced with over the last 12 months

The EU and its members are losing billions in corporate tax revenues due to loopholes which see multinationals pay as little as 2%, writes Europe correspondent Ann Cahill

The EU is planning to crack down on loopholes in Ireland and other countries that allow huge multinationals to pay little if any tax on their earnings.

Google Ireland has apologised to users after an earlier outage.

The Google Ireland website went down this afternoon.

The Irish arm of internet services giant Google saw turnover rise 25% to €12.5 billion last year, according to newly filed accounts.

Internet giant Google has been voted the most reputable company in Ireland for the third year running.

Wishing for better times may have become a national past time but one schoolboy has turned the dreary national attitude to his advantage — catching the eye of a world-leading firm in the process.

Ireland’s most trusted leader is EMC Ireland’s vice-president and managing director Bob Savage, according to the Great Place to Work Best Workplace Awards.

Google is set to open its first standalone retail shop at its European headquarters in Dublin.

A third-year west Cork student has been shortlisted for the major prizes in the much-coveted Doodle 4 Google competition.

Google, which offers panoramic views of nearly every street in Ireland, was brought down to earth yesterday after being summonsed to appear at a court in Co Kerry.

THE owners of the Ballymascanlon House Hotel in Co Louth have taken a legal action for damages against Google alleging defamation of the hotel’s business and reputation via Google’s web search service.

INTERNET giant Google is to open a new data centre in Dublin to run its search engine, Gmail and Google Maps services.

Search giant Google has this morning revealed that is to invest €75m in a new facility in west Dublin.

The most popular searches on Google Ireland for the first half of the year were dominated by celebrity deaths, sporting events and Glee.