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The worship of mammon and mammon-makers has brought us to the point where a rich felon purports to rule the world and carve it up to his liking
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Payment relates to suspension of US president’s accounts in wake of Capitol riot
Housing delivery forecast to ‘stagnate’
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Zuckerberg’s culture shift at Meta could make it hard to find new recruits willing to work in his macho organisation
Invention and product innovation require the best minds in cohesive teams, strong collegiality and respect, regardless of sex, skin colour, or religion
Trump’s tech bros face comeuppance amid DeepSeek panic
There is poetic justice in a small Chinese AI start-up challenging US giants. Washington is shooting itself in the foot with chip export restrictions and clampdown on tech talent visas
Tech bros welcome masculine energy back to workplace. It’s news to me it ever went away
There was overreach after the #MeToo movement but the backlash against women we’re seeing now is ferocious
OpenAI’s Sam Altman vows ‘better models’ as China’s DeepSeek disrupts global AI race
Executives and investors question valuations and whether vast capital outlays are needed after all
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The digerati developed a monopoly on Americans’ attention, creating division, distrust and envy under the innocent guise of connecting us and making our lives better
Holocaust survivor: ‘I saw normal people in Auschwitz and I saw sadists there who killed people’
As Europe faces a new wave of extreme nationalism, one of the last survivors of Auschwitz looks back
More corporate chiefs fall in line behind Napoleonic Trump
Former Trump critic Sam Altman of OpenAI suddenly reckons the US president ‘will be incredible for the country in many ways’
Mr Cook goes to Washington and other tales from Trump’s inauguration
Planet Business: Executive order recap, the man who designed Melania Trump’s hat and how the television ratings compared to previous ceremonies
Apple share slump amid iPhone woes should sound caution for new Government
Tech giant’s international operation in Cork believed to be largest taxpayer in Republic
The GAA catfish and fake online profiles: how can people protect themselves from social media deceit?
The saga involves a person who duped GAA players and others by posing as someone else and using a bogus network of contacts
Why do billionaires pay very little tax?
Donald Trump and his coterie of wealthy business people likely means less support for global tax reform
‘Mob wife at a funeral’: Melania Trump brings note of fashion menace to inauguration
New president’s wife chose to wear a dark, high-necked coat and a boater hat to celebrate her husband’s second inauguration
Davos leaders who won’t take the train
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Do analysts share Mark Zuckerberg’s preference for ‘masculine energy’?
Analyst downgrades and share-price falls more likely when a female chief executive uses uptalk, researchers have found
Donald Trump returns to strike sombre tone of vindication and providential intercession
Icy, strained inauguration day is rich with human drama - and the abiding American theme of defeat and redemption
‘Meta sees me as a golden goose.’ How Zuckerberg’s AI creations went rogue and gave the game away
Facebook and Instagram have pulled the plug on AI avatars Grandpa Brian and Liv but their successors will soon flood our lives with lies on a hitherto unimaginable scale
From woke to wooing: companies kneel before Donald Trump
Coca-Cola hit the headlines after gifting Trump with his very own personalised Diet Coke bottle for his inauguration
LA fires lay bare the spectre of an uninsurable future
Planet Business: Meta’s non-regrettable attrition, Starbucks’ new code of customer conduct and performers signed-up for Donald Trump’s inauguration
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg bending the knee before Trump shows they stand for nothing
What is the point of having all the money if you can’t stand up for traditional American values or stick up the middle finger if someone is trying to intimidate you or put you in prison
Time to unfriend? Lawyer responds to Meta’s ‘descent’
Mark Lemley will stay on Facebook, he says. But there are other things he can do to salve his conscience
Mark Zuckerberg’s pronouncements confirm that ‘woke’ is dead
Household names turn back the clock to darker times as they fall into step with the next occupant of the White House
Donald Trump is likely to listen to noisy business leaders like Michael O’Leary
Nothing says ‘America first’ quite like Boeing aeroplanes, and Ryanair is one of the US aircraft maker’s best customers
EU to review investigations into Apple, Google and Meta as US pressure mounts
Tech groups urging president-elect Donald Trump to intervene against 'overzealous' European regulation
How to make money from selling sneakers
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More masculine energy? Only a Musk-Zuck inauguration day cage fight will do
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has entered the MMA-MAGA arena. A high-profile bout is the next logical step
Zuckerberg swaps fact-checking for Trump: a risky bet?
Meta investors don’t seem to be fretting – for now, anyway
Biden calls Meta’s decision to drop fact-checking ‘really shameful’
Comments follow Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to replace fact-checking departments with company-moderated community notes
Moves by Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg set scene for confrontation between EU and US
Meta will now allow ‘insulting language when discussing transgender rights, immigration or homosexuality’, and no longer bans describing women as ‘property’ or ‘household objects’
Greenland is the ‘large real-estate deal’ Trump doesn’t want to let slip away
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