What should you know about the new Amazon.ie website? Is it worth switching over from the UK domain? Is it cheaper? 
Producer, JJ Clarke, joined Adrian on this week’s episode of The Big Tech Show to discuss the latest tech news. 

Irish Independent Tech Editor Adrian Weckler hosts this award-winning business podcast which dives deep into the biggest industry advances and tracks the key movers and shakers behind the innovation. From interviewing Big Tech CEOs to investigations into how tech affects our working lives, the show has become Ireland’s most listened-to technology podcast.

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What made Adam Dalton realise he loved selling? Which teacher influenced him in secondary school? And what are the downsides of a multi-million euro exit? 
Adam Dalton, co-founder of Jamango! former CEO and co-founder of Robotify, joins Adrian on this week’s episode of The Big Tech Show.  
Adam Dalton seemed destined for entrepreneurship with an early love of LEGO and Minecraft. Adrian began the conversation by asking him about a guidance counsellor in his secondary school called Michael O’Neill. The teacher put on coding classes after school where Adam learned to build websites and games through coding, which served him well in his future career.  
You can listen to the full episode here on the Irish Independent website or wherever you get your podcasts. 

Wunderkid Adam Dalton — the 8-figure sale of the company he built in school and his new heavily-backed venture

Will Irish jobs be impacted if the EU go after US tech services? Is Ireland the likely battle ground for a digital trade war? And why did the Chinese pull out of the deal to sell TikTok? 
JJ Clarke, Producer, joins host Donal O’Donovan on this week’s episode of The Big Tech Show.  
The business editor began by pointing out that Ireland sells about 52 billion dollars' worth of digital services to the US every year, versus about 53 billion dollars' worth of physical products. Roughly half of Irish exports to the US (the digital services) are not affected by Trump’s current tariffs. However, Donal O’Donovan highlighted that global trade in goods and the manufacturing sector are being targeted currently. 
You can listen to the full episode here on the Irish Independent website or wherever you get your podcasts. 

TikTok, Tariffs and Trump: An uncertain future for Ireland's tech sector?

How much energy do data centres consume? What kind of data do they store? And is Ireland now a landfill for junk data? 
Caroline O’Doherty, Environment correspondent with the Irish Independent joins Donal O’Donovan on the Big Tech Show this week. 
 
The environment correspondent started by talking about why companies like building data centres in Ireland. Caroline O’Doherty stated that; Ireland has a strong IT sector, the political climate is stable, and the geographical climate is also favourable because data centres create a lot of heat and don't do well in hotter countries.  
 
You can listen to the full episode here on the Irish Independent website or wherever you get your podcasts. 
 

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