Paddy Cosgrave, CEO of Europe’s largest tech conference Web Summit, has resigned after Alphabet, Meta, Google, Siemens and Intel joined a raft of companies pulling out of the show next month in response to his comments criticising Israel’s response to the Hamas terror attacks. The chief executive of Web Summit, took the decision after major sponsors and speakers withdrew from the event, still scheduled to run 13 November, in protest at the Irish entrepreneur’s stance. ...