In the same way that Davos has become synonymous with the World Economic Forum, Web Summit means Lisbon, when tech people say are you going to Lisbon they mean, “Are you going to Web Summit”, barrister Bernard Dunleavy for the business and its CEO Paddy Cosgrave told the court. It was a bid to impress on Justice Seamus Twomey the scale of the company’s achievements. Senior counsel would later follow this up by comparing the “febrile” atmosphere at the famous tech conference to Klondike or the California gold rush. This was the opening of the long-awaited trial of the Web…

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