Full coverage: Multinationals

Unlike other tech multinationals, the US online retail and cloud computing behemoth has not chosen Ireland as its European corporate beachhead. Yet the group has quietly been ramping up a multi-billion data centre presence around Dublin, and is now moving into the renewable energy market.

Based in the Dublin suburb of Clonskeagh, Skillsoft emerged from Irish tech pioneer SmartForce. The company is now weighing up several restructuring options across Ireland, the UK and the US.

While exploring the tech industry for the Mapping Multinationals series, Thomas Hubert had to adjust from the real world to understand the sheer volume of financial flows he was looking at. His reporting highlights the need for increased corporate transparency requirements.

In the final part of our series, our interactive map shows where in the country the world’s top technology firms have anchored billions in revenue and profit, along with 43,000 jobs.

Amid heightened international agitation by foreign governments over the global tax code, our Mapping Multinationals series showed just how crucial Ireland is to the global operations of many global titans – and how crucial their success is to us. But have we gone too far?

From chips to servers, hundreds of billions' worth of technology hardware is sold through Ireland each year, often without ever reaching its shores. In the latest instalment of the Mapping multinationals series, we explore how.

Mapping Multinationals: Exit the double Irish, enter the green jersey. Following into the footsteps of Apple, US-based tech multinationals incentivised by shifting tax rules have been accelerating onshorings of intangible assets here.

Ireland makes much of its relationships to the world’s financial structure and has has a passable relationship with the knowledge structure. But it knows almost nothing about its security structure, or where it sits within the mesh of global value chains.

Mapping Multinationals series: A US Tax Court has turned the spotlight on the Irish corporate structure developed by Facebook over the past decade. We reveal how the multinational and its competitor Twitter have been re-assessing how to channel profits and intellectual property through Ireland.

In the latest installment of the Mapping Multinationals series, we unlock Microsoft's Irish presence - the tax tactics, the IP moves and the dividend strategy.