The largest indigenous technology firm in Ireland, First Derivatives, has bought a controlling stake in a US big data vendor in a multi-million euro deal.

Scientists at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) are hoping to throw further light on sunspots and solar storms as they go global with a ‘citizen science’ project following phenomenal success in Ireland.

Electric car maker Tesla Motors is handing over the keys to its technology in an unusual effort to encourage other manufacturers to expand beyond petrol-burning vehicles.

Hewlett Packard saidAutonomy, the software firm it bought in 2011, overstated profits at one of its main British units by 81% in the year before it was sold in Britain’s biggest technology deal.

It seems the founder of Facebook is getting himself some more privacy as users of his website prepare for less.

Tesla Motors Inc’s market value exceeded $20bn (€15bn) as investors remain optimistic Elon Musk can keep widening the appeal of electric-powered cars.

THE BESTSELLING biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson is most notable for revealing that the innovator and aesthete genius behind Apple — the world’s most successful company — was in many ways a giant, semi-autistic toddler.

Facebook the business was dwarfed by Facebook the story. John Hearne says it was the money that bewitched everyone, it was the numbers that powered the hubris

John Atta Mills, who ran three times for president before being elected in the closest vote in Ghana’s history on a platform vowing to reform the west African country, has died aged 68, officials said.

A US woman hit by a milkshake accidentally threw $2,000 back in retaliation.

Hewlett-Packard expects that Irish staff will be among the 27,000 jobs to be shed as part of a three-year global restructuring plan.

Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has updated his status to “married”.

Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to "married".

Hewlett-Packard chief executive Meg Whitman pleaded for patience as she described operational challenges and other internal problems that contributed to a decline in earnings at one of the world’s largest technology companies.

Sprung from the bench, he destroyed the New Jersey Nets with 25 points and seven assists.

Graffiti artist David Choe became $200m richer this week thanks to a decision he made seven years ago in the offices of Facebook.

HEWLETT-PACKARD, the world’s largest computer maker, forecast fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year earnings that missed analysts’ estimates because of lacklustre consumer spending.

Hewlett-Packard said today that it is to end its tablet computer and smartphone businesses, and is considering selling its PC business.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama has begun rallying supporters for his 2012 presidential campaign, recognising that some of the soaring promise of 2008 has been grounded by tough political realities.

THE New York man suing over claims that he owns 84% of Facebook Inc has a copy of a $3,000 (€3,638) cashier’s cheque that may support his contract claim against the company and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook will be rolling out “simplified” privacy settings to appease concerns over safeguarding users’ information, it was announced.

US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice hailed the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president as a key moment in history.

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke optimistically about prospects for treaties that would ease US arms export controls to Britain and Australia.

MULTI-MILLION-EURO deals have been attained by Cork and Limerick firms in California’s Silicon Valley.

The owners of a rival social networking website are trying to shut down Facebook, claiming the founder stole their ideas while they were students at Harvard.

Hundreds of people who lined up to be among the first to get their hands on Apple’s coveted iPhone are now the braggarts and guinea pigs for the latest must-have, cutting-edge piece of techno-wizardry.

THE world’s largest personal computer maker, Hewlett-Packard, yesterday said first-quarter profit rose 26% after the company won consumer sales away from Dell Inc.

THE world’s largest computer-chip maker, Intel, last night said third-quarter profit fell 35% amid price cuts and market share losses.

American Roger Kornberg won the 2006 Nobel Prize in chemistry today, honoured in Sweden for his work on how information stored within a gene is copied and transferred to the parts of cells that produce proteins.

HEWLETT-PACKARD, the world’s largest printer maker and the No 2 seller of personal computers, said third-quarter profits fell 88% after expenses from bringing earnings back from overseas and firing workers.

US stocks moved down today as investors weighed rising US incomes and consumer spending against lofty oil prices.

THE board of Hewlett-Packard has ousted chief executive officer Carly Fiorina after five years in which the company’s shares fell more than 50%.

Olympic 5,000 metres silver-medallist Sonia O’Sullivan made a superb start to her summer season with a win over the distance in the United States overnight.

The market is infatuated with the euro which rose to $1.2450. Richard Blackden reports.

Wall Street edged lower today as investors sought profits from the previous day’s session, taking a pause between key economic reports while the earnings season winds down.

SHARES of Hewlett-Packard Co, the world’s second-biggest computer maker, fell as much as 12% after the company said it missed analysts’ third-quarter sales and profit estimates and cut personal computer prices too much.

Connect Global Solutions (Connect) has been awarded the IBM software business partner of the year award at a Business Partner event held at the Herbert Park Hotel, Dublin.