Full coverage: Google

Google’s Dublin subsidiaries may have just posted exceptional once-off Irish tax bills, but the Silicon Valley giant’s strategy is now to split international corporation tax between here and the US – as the Fitbit acquisition shows.

Given the tendency of Seán Quinn and members of his family to revise and reengineer history, it is little surprise that family members are now trying to airbrush it.

Former Bank of Ireland executive Nick Fahy is building a hybrid business bank, with customer-facing staff backed up by Google’s AI technology.

Faced with the growing risks associated with false advertising and YouTube misinformation, the Silicon Valley giant is promising transparency through a new online safety centre located where its European business is based – here.

Covid-19 has revealed – rather than caused – trends in our society. It has highlighted and accelerated changes that were already happening. Chief among them is the slide away from central locations. And this has big implications for the property market.

A failed car dealership accused of money laundering allegedly ran its business from a gmail account. Should Google hand over the contents to the liquidator? The High Court must decide.

Irish-registered subsidiaries of US-based technology companies have been distributing hundreds of billions to their parents since the start of 2018, illustrating the scale of reserves built offshore through the use of tax schemes over the years.

In a new series, The Currency investigates the structures and tactics used by technology multinationals in Ireland. We are mapping their footprints, following the money trail and unlocking the trends. We begin by tracing Google’s network of 24 companies here – from revenues to dividends.