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I went to Silicon Valley to meet with top-tier tech companies. As the meetings progressed, its main bank collapsed. Beyond the Bay Area’s travails, the impact of SVB’s failure on monetary policy in the near term may be significant.

By focusing on the heavy equipment niche, the Claregalway battery technology start-up has convinced investors to back its plans for a fully-fledged factory. The sums at stake had remained secret – until now.

The latest layoffs at Salesforce show the correction in the tech industry is not over, raising questions about Ireland's corporation tax boom. Another tax stream, however, gives an indication of the profits yet to be declared here – and that's before we even look at big pharma.

The semiconductor multinational is reaping maximum rewards from the loophole still allowing Irish companies to be tax-resident in Malta. Its tax bills are small, but its capital returns are not.

Weeks after the findings of a European Parliament investigation, police have raided Intellexa in Greece. Proceeds from the sale of the firm's surveillance technology trickle up to a tax structure established in Ireland, but one Irish MEP is now calling for change.

Shortly before the end of its financial year in January, the Dell group severed its cloud software arm VMware. Both businesses continued to maximise the green jersey scheme in Ireland to shield their growing European business from corporation tax.

The buyer of loans owed by the Cork artificial intelligence start-up in receivership has a long history with the company. The move comes as bidders express interest in acquiring the business.

Instead of raising more funds, Content Llama is set to close down by the end of this year. The technology provider to outdoor retailers failed to "turn the ship", its co-founder and chief executive Karina Kelly told investors.

The investors brought along by David McCourt since he won the National Broadband Plan contract are forming a new company to commercialise related technology and turn the team who developed it into a permanent “centre of excellence”. Strict procurement rules apply.

New information from multiple subsidiaries of the two digital advertising giants in Ireland reveal how they operate in the post-double Irish world and how ready they are to take on the industry slump.