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Nathan Ord - Sat, May 15, 2021
Cyber-attacks have seemingly ramped-up in the last few weeks, like the Colonial Pipeline ransomware incident that netted a cool $5 million for the criminal attackers. Now, cyber-thugs have crippled the Irish Health Service Executive's...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Aug 30, 2016
Apple’s longstanding beef in the European Union over allegations of tax dodging has finally come to a dramatic end (pending an appeal, of course). In essence, Apple simply delayed the inevitable, as the European Commission is ordering that...
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Sean Knight - Tue, Oct 14, 2014
Ireland will be closing a tax loophole next year that helped save tech companies such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Twitter billions of dollars. But while the loophole will end next year, companies already using it will be...
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Seth Colaner - Fri, Jan 25, 2013
The luck o’ the Irish is going strong, apparently, as Intel is planning to build a plant in Ireland for the purpose of manufacturing 14nm chips which will reportedly create 800 permanent tech jobs and 3,500 construction jobs...
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Michael Santo - Fri, Oct 22, 2010
A report in Business Week shows us one way that Google keeps its bottom line up. Using a complicated structure, the company sends most of its overseas profits overseas to known tax havens. With that, Google's corporate overseas tax rate is a low, low 2.4 percent. For a company with the...
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Chad Weirick - Tue, Oct 30, 2007
It's a sad day for the people of Limavady, a city in Ireland's County Derry, especially for the hundreds of local Seagate employees are that are going to be looking for new jobs once Seagate closes their facility in Limavady.Company spokesperson Woody Monroy didn't mention if any of the employees will be transferred to other locations such...
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Gregory Sullivan - Wed, May 23, 2007
Sales of consumer electronics in the United States are expected to reach $155 billion dollars for 2007, up from $145 billion in 2006. That's larger than the Gross Domestic Product of Singapore, but not quite the whole output of goods and services of Ireland. Behind the strong performance was surging sales of digital consumer electronics...
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