The company behind wearable panic buttons for workers once set out to expand in the US. Now, after years of losses despite winning major hotel brands as customers, it seeks to save the business through Scarp.
The ‘Do Not Buy’ season is upon us, but the global memory-chip crunch complicates our expectations around Apple’s fall hardware lineup, writes Nicole Nguyen, The Wall Street Journal.
Yale School of Management executive fellow Gautam Mukunda discusses why Ireland must reduce its reliance on the US, the collapse in standards among US business leaders, and how the tech sector has been corrupted by success.
Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook policy executive, is suing Meta over its attempts to stop her from talking about her book, ‘Careless People’, write Keach Hagey and Meghan Bobrowsky, The Wall Street Journal.
The fitness tech company’s closure of its Irish subsidiary ends a brief presence in Ireland. It last had just over a dozen staff three years ago but had once been tipped to be much bigger.
The US database giant first arrived in Ireland in 2013 and has grown aggressively ever since. Now, it plans to invest a further €74 million into its Irish operation and add over 200 new jobs.
Techies compare notes on how long their fleet of virtual interns can labor away without making a mistake, writes Kate Clark, The Wall Street Journal.
Founded in 2019, Evervault wants to encrypt all online sensitive data. It has just closed a series B round led by Ribbit Capital founded by Venezuelan-born billionaire tech investor Micky Malka.
Alan Doyle kicked off Aerlytix in 2020 in the midst of Covid challenges and aviation’s shutdown but in the last five years it has raised over €10m and is now plotting a major product expansion.
Facial recognition was sold as a convenience — faster boarding passes, safer streets, smarter security. Instead, it’s ushering in an era of constant surveillance where anonymity is vanishing, and your face is the password you can’t change.
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