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For more than a decade, U.S. technology giants invested billions of dollars in this pastoral island nation. They were lured by special tax rates as low as 10 per cent, cheap skilled labour and the easiest point of entry to the European Union's market. For six unprecedented years, the Irish economy grew at a real annual rate near 10 per cent. But now, tech companies are shutting plants in Ireland and shedding workers by the thousand.

Shipment of less expensive portable machines such as netbooks facilitates strong comeback

Second summer acquisition for Chinese firm

ChoicePoint Inc and LexisNexis may face withering criticism for not keeping identity thieves out of their massive databases, but information brokers are far from the only sources of the Social Security numbers, addresses and other data that fuel the fast-growing brand of fraud.

Stephen Seemayer had the first Pong video game system on his block. A decade later, the Los Angeles artist was the first of his neighbours to get a personal computer.

Shawn Fanning’s new company, Snocap Inc, aims to create an online marketplace where people can buy authorised tracks from each other without incurring the legal wrath of the record label