Two of journalism’s most radical figures, Julian Assange and Nick Denton, have, for different reasons seen their power and influence in the modern world decline, writes John Lloyd.

Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has cornered online retail, jumped ahead in artificial intelligence with voice activated speaker, Echo, carved out a powerful spot in the media industry and is even dabbling in spaceflight. He may be just getting warmed up, writes Alexander Nazaryan.

Gawker Media, the online publisher ordered to pay $140m (€124m) to former wrestler Hulk Hogan over publication of a sex tape, yesterday filed for bankruptcy protection and is planning to put itself up for sale.

When Peter Thiel helped Hulk Hogan sue news website Gawker he said it was for the public good. It was really about settling an old score writes Keith Emmer

Saudi Arabia is not all that fond of competition — the kingdom has long reaped rich reward from its Opec membership.

They are some of the biggest brains in technology and they have serious money behind them. Their mission now is to end old age and achieve immortality says Rita de Brun.

 

New scientific research on healing the body from within, may revolutionise the way we age, says Áilín Quinlan.

In May 1954, English runner Roger Bannister broke the seemingly impenetrable barrier of the sub-four-minute mile, a month after his rival John Landy proclaimed it to be impossible.

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.

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

Two Limerick brothers are set to join the world’s mega-wealthy after having their company valued at $1.75bn (€1.3bn).

A global credit card payment service founded by two young Irish millionaire brothers is to be made available to Irish firms from today.

Walter Bortz and Aubrey de Grey are both sights to behold.

Millionaire Limerick brothers Patrick and John Collison’s developer-friendly payments company has officially launched in the UK after clearing “large hurdles”.

A meeting of some of the world’s most powerful people has been slammed as being too secretive.

Ellen DeGeneres has been placed at number two in Out magazine's 2013 Power List.

Facebook shares have sunk to fresh lows after early investors were allowed to ditch the stock for the first time since its flotation.

Facebook’s No 2 executive, Sheryl Sandberg, has become the first woman on the social-networking company’s board of directors.

Facebook shares are being offered to the public for $38 in one of the biggest ever US stock flotations.

Facebook is heading for one of the biggest ever US stock flotations when it sells hundreds of millions of shares to the public.

Two Limerick brothers who became millionaires while still at school have seen their newest venture, Stripe, valued at €75 million.

THE global ranks of billionaires grew by 199 people in the past year, but none came close to unseating Carlos Slim, the world’s richest man, who added $20.5 billion (€14.83bn) to his coffers, according to Forbes magazine’s annual tally.

The man behind the world’s greatest social networking site is set to lose his low profile, says Dan Buckley.

SOCIAL networking site, Facebook, popular with students in Ireland and Britain has been valued at $6 billion (€4.3bn) by influential analyst Robert Peck.