Shares up 11% as UK ecommerce firm licenses online grocery system to Japanese retailer

Move could be biggest-ever leveraged buyout

William Hill gambles on its landlords being scared into agreeing cuts for shop rentals

ECB announces funding handouts, pushes back rate hike

Voice search and ‘Minority Report’-style ads among the tech to become the norm this year

Support from Enterprise Ireland has given gluten-free bread manufacturer BFree Foods a healthy slice of the global ‘free-from’ market

Ocado shares have more than tripled since November, as M&S is in flux

In Dublin, Paddypower still goes up despite UK’s restrictions on betting terminals

US retailer Kroger agrees deal to use British online supermarket’s tech as it takes on Amazon

America’s oldest gunmaker announced in February it will transfer control of the company to creditors

Walmart decline in the US put brakes on S&P and Dow’s winning streak

Ecommerce pioneer aims to write another chapter of its retail revolution

Three reviews from the opening weekend of the Dublin Theatre Festival

Cuts add another front to price war already raging across supermarket sector

Either Jeff Bezos has lost his bearings or many people think about Amazon in the wrong way

Rising bets for Federal Reserve interest rate rise stoke optimism about global growth

UK stocks advance as Bank of England governor says recession risk has receded

A concept shop at Milan Expo explores how technology could transform the way we shop for food. Some of these changes might be upon us sooner than you think

Customer data business Dunnhumby has been put up for sale by Tesco

US firm refuses requests to donate $2.6m worth of product to food banks