Microsoft has also signalled that it is entering the virtual reality world, in its workplace collaboration software

"One study from Carnegie Mellon University that Hari cites in his new book found that we have lost about 20% of our brain power because of our online living"

With government backing, the regulator has stepped up scrutiny of the power wielded by tech groups

CSO data reveals younger people are far less likely to take information at face value than their older peers

Number of ads blocked or removed increased by more than 500,000 in September and October compared to the previous period, EU report report shows

The tax payment was for "adjustments for corporation tax of prior periods", according to the latest statement for its Ireland-based company.

It gives us no great satisfaction to point to the accuracy of our prediction, made in 2017, that society was sleepwalking into an era where digital records will be removed to protect reputation and vested interests

Articles will remain online but will be less easily found by readers after family's successful move under the 'Right to be Forgotten'

The share-price advance puts the company in an exclusive club alongside Apple and Microsoft.

I make them and listen to them — and yet, I feel a strange ambivalence about podcasts and their proliferation in our private lives

Microsoft also beats Wall St expectations as demand soared for cloud-based services from businesses adopting hybrid work models

Google is on a collision course with advertisers and publishers who fired off a fresh antitrust complaint with the European Union in the run-up to the US tech giant’s court fight over a record $5bn (€4. 28bn) antitrust fine.

The European Commission fined Google in 2018, saying that it had used Android since 2011 to thwart rivals and cement its dominance in general internet search

iPhone and Android users have long complained about using different chargers for their phones. The former is charged from a Lightning cable while Android-based devices are charged using USB-C connectors

Some 98% of the 164 data protection cases of 'European significance' referred to the Data Protection Commission 'remain unresolved', according to a new report by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties

Bipartisan antitrust legislation aimed at Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google could hurt US competitiveness and give foreign adversaries access to sensitive information, new report claims

Big tech is fighting back against tough new laws aimed at curbing their powers

Almost 800,000 Irish viewers tuned into the explosive interview, while the country's most popular Google searches related to Covid, with a particular surge of interest in the reopening of retail stores 

Attorneys general for Utah and 36 other US states or districts are suing Google over alleged competition violations with the app store

Proposed bill would bar tech giants from requiring software developers to use their payment systems, effectively stopping them from charging commissions on in-app purchases

A Republican and a Democratic member of the US House of Representatives introduced a bill aimed at reining in powerful app stores run by companies like Apple and Google.

 Facebook and Twitter have already cut pay for remote employees who moved to less expensive areas

Luxembourg's data protection authority accused the online retailer of processing personal data in violation of the rules

Apple's strongest sales growth came from China, while revenue from Google advertising rose nearly 70%

Media giant has two months to improve the way it presents search results and explain how it ranks them 

Google has been fined €500m in France after the search giant failed to follow an order to thrash out a fair deal with publishers to use their news content on its platform.

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has taken a legal action against the American-based Interactive Advertising Bureau, the preeminent organisation for online advertisers, which counts Google and Facebook among its members

Google has unveiled an option for small businesses in a a number of countries to upgrade their Gmail accounts for greater calendaring, video chat and email newsletter functionalities. Google Workspace Individual, which starts at $7. 99 (€6.

Extra oomph from the speakers and improved Google response time — although sleep sensing feature won't be for everyone

Music-streaming service Spotify and Match, an operator of online dating apps, have accused Apple of squeezing software developers that depend on its App Store to reach customers by extracting monopoly profits and squashing competition

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This week marks the introduction by the Irish Examiner of a subscription service for digital content.

New legislation to be introduced next week will force Google and Facebook to pay publishers and broadcasters for content

BXS-HD1 earbuds feature touch controls, 13mm speaker drivers, and support for Google and Siri voice assistants

The Biden administration should expand competition cases against Google and Facebook and encourage breaking up companies, according to a group whose founder is working with the president-elect’s transition team.

As a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, former attorney general Bill Barr will be remembered for a lot of things but perhaps his legacy will have wide ramifications for citizens across the globe, far beyond the Washington political bubble.

The syringe was invented by Francis Rynd in Ireland in 1844. As the first Covid-19 vaccines roll out in Ireland via hypodermic syringes, Helen O'Callaghan looks at whether we all have a shot at great success

This year had a number of high-profile developments such as the Covid-19 pandemic and the Brexit negotiations that dominated the headlines.

Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook together accounting for about a fifth of the S&P 500's total value, report their quarterly results on Thursday, with their shares trading near record highs, even as they face increasing antitrust scrutiny.

Japan will join forces with the US and Europe to take on any market abuses by the four big tech companies, the new head of its antitrust watchdog said, a sign Tokyo will join global efforts to regulate digital platform operators.

Cianan Brennan looks at the growing phenomenon of online real-time bidding and what it means for our personal information

This week, my wife and I need to get a room, writes Pat Fitzpatrick

Like it or not, video meetings are here to stay. Home editor Eve Kelliher gets an expert's secrets to preparing interiors for their close-up.

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority said it needed sweeping new powers to roll back the dominance of Google and Facebook in the online-advertising market.