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The IT multinational may be selling its Dublin campus, but it still has plenty of accumulated profits in Ireland to send back to headquarters.

US-headquartered, Chinese-owned Riot Games is hiring to beef up its third global tax team in Dublin, where intellectual property has turned its office into a billion-euro business.

The social media giant re-invested half of the profits distributed by its Dublin advertising business last year. Ireland itself is the main destination of this splurge on cloud infrastructure.

Inex is a non-for-profit organisation that helps keep Ireland's internet connected. The auditor has resigned of an entity that has over 100 members including some of the biggest tech companies in the world.

This year, Cubic Telecom is on track to sell 31 per cent of all the units it sold between 2005 and 2022. That extraordinary growth is why SoftBank is buying a majority shareholding.

Using a green Bermuda corporate structure, the US group’s lucrative EMC cloud division is continuing to shift $8.6 billion and counting in profits from sales booked in Cork to the zero-tax Caribbean jurisdiction.

Over a couple of beers, O'Brien chatted frankly on the Telecoms.com podcast about his industry.

Alphabet group companies in Dublin have paid nearly €10bn in dividends to their US parents in the past two years. Much like the hiring spree that preceded them, they were part of “a different economic reality”.

The National Broadband Plan’s contractor is speeding up the construction of its network and the connection of paying customers. An incentive scheme is fully funded to reward its senior staff.

Two years ago, the popular homeware and gifts marketplace branched into fashion with a $1.6bn UK acquisition. The Dublin holding company conducting the deal has now wiped 90% off its value.