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Iseq creeps up with Smurfit jumping 4.7%

Citadel opens with a ridiculous set-piece and from there orbits ever-expanding circles of ludicrousness

Focus on groceries and appliances seen as tilting retail market more in favour of online operators

Interest rate uncertainty ensures traders remain on the edge

Joe Brennan: The streamer seems reluctant to change parts of its model, such as dropping all episodes of a series at once

Television: If you’ve ever flinched watching the Channel 4 maternity ward series One Born Every Minute, Dead Ringers will have you diving behind the couch

There must be better investment short cuts than buying a stock because it begins with the letter ‘A’

Dublin-based airline plans to begin flight tests within weeks

Could we pay a single supplier a subscription to access the internet and interact with all of its content, without any further charges or ads?

Critics claim the technology carries alarming risks and needs better governance

Communications watchdog Ofcom ‘particularly concerned’ over practices of tech giants that dominate cloud market

Bookseller says impact of closure on Irish consumers unlikely to be pronounced given range of online options

LOL: Last One Laughing Ireland will be made for the streamer by Irish production company Kite Entertainment

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Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

Sales increase by a third even as pretax profit falls

The Iseq was up by slightly more than 0.1% in a volume-light session in Dublin

Including Dead Ringers, Transatlantic, Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker, Citadel and season two of Sweet Tooth

In response, Microsoft says it has a healthy number two position in cloud services, with just over 20% share of global services revenues

Startup Loft is located in company’s Charlemont Street offices

Near record levels of outperformance is partly explained by the awful performance of tech stocks in 2022 but scale of the rebound is unexpected

From DIY SOS to Murder in Mayfair, this list has all the shows you need to take note of this week

Projections from employer’s industry group would bring tech redundancies in Ireland to over 5,000

Inside Business podcast with Laura Slattery

Workhuman, which specialises in employee reward and incentive programmes for companies worldwide, employs 600 people in Ireland

Latest lay-offs add to 18,000 staff culled in January as company cuts costs following tech downturn

Cloud giant plans to roll-out the changes across its European operations

Percentage outperforming in 2022 was the highest in 13 years but investors were still better off in index funds

Latest job losses are linked to January announcement of 10,000 job cuts worldwide

Employers such as Goldman Sachs, Meta and Ford need to avoid lasting damage to morale as they axe jobs

The TV drama starring Elvis’s grandchild Riley Keough is at its best when laying bare the misogyny of the music industry

Patrick Freyne: The Disney+ series is a delightful, morally simple adventure, like Rawhide or The Incredible Hulk

Turn an old laptop into a Chromebook, use a smartphone as a baby monitor, and other ways to make old tech useful again

Including The Mandalorian, Ted Lasso, Shadow & Bone, Class of ’07, The Power, Daisy Jones & the Six, The Big Door Prize, and a Paddy’s Day U2 homecoming

Starring Riley Keough, Amazon’s new big-budget rock drama charts a band’s rise to sold-out-stadium-level fame and the excesses that come with it

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

Actor Cara Delevingne’s alarmingly not-awful South Dublin accent still front and centre

The Iseq index, up by about 0.3%, traded in line with its European peers

Jassy backs grocery business despite recently saying plans were on hold

Stocktake: Signs of hope after a rough 2022 but stocks are unlikely to sustain strong performance in a high interest-rate environment