
Olivia Fletcher
Energy Reporter at Bloomberg News
Telling the island of Ireland’s story for @business
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1 week ago |
bloomberg.com | Olivia Fletcher |Celia Bergin
Kerrygold has become the second largest selling butter brand in the US. (Bloomberg) -- Kerrygold butter maker Ornua has sold most of the stockpiles it exported to the US ahead of a potential trade war as the threat of tariffs cloud its American sales outlook. “Whatever product was available to us that was allocated to the US market, we moved well in advance of the end of the calendar year, and that was in anticipation of a potential change,” Ornua Chief Executive Officer Conor Galvin said.
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1 week ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Olivia Fletcher
Ireland’s data watchdog has launched an inquiry into Elon Musk’s social media platform X over the processing of European users’ posts for the purpose of training its AI model, Grok. The probe will examine compliance with a range of key provisions of data rules, including the lawfulness of the processing, a statement from the Data Protection Commission said on Friday. X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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1 week ago |
bloomberg.com | Olivia Fletcher
The logo of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, displayed on a smartphone in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Brazil's top court determined the immediate suspension of X in the country after its billionaire owner Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative for the social network in Latin America's largest nation.
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1 week ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Olivia Fletcher
Ireland’s data watchdog has launched an inquiry into Elon Musk’s social media platform X over the processing of European users’ posts for the purpose of training its AI model, Grok. The probe will examine compliance with a range of key provisions of data rules, including the lawfulness of the processing, a statement from the Data Protection Commission said on Friday. X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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2 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Olivia Fletcher
An economic shock caused by a transatlantic trade war would weaken Irish housing demand, property website MyHome.ie said. While annual asking prices were up 8.1% in the first quarter, according the report, it forecasts 5% asking price inflation for 2025. That prediction may prove too conservative if a trade war does not materialize, it added.
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