The Irish Times

P&O’s barbaric sackings share ‘Hall of Infamy’ with Clerys

Sheer scale of the ferry group’s managerial incompetence is a sight to behold

Fri Mar 25 2022 - 05:24

‘Tech superpower’ Ireland should take on social media giants, Frances Haugen says

Facebook whistleblower urges Data Protection Commission to be braver in taking on firms

Mon Mar 21 2022 - 20:42

Whistleblower accuses Facebook of misleading public and investors

Social media company in its deepest crisis since the Cambridge Analytica scandal

Mon Oct 04 2021 - 09:01

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Timely and compelling

Book review: The bestselling novelist John Green’s first non-fiction book covers a vast and fascinating range of topics

Sun May 23 2021 - 06:00

Group of 165 Google critics calls for swift EU antitrust action

Google denies it unfairly favours its own services

Thu Nov 12 2020 - 12:50

1,800 homes sign up as WiredScore rolls out build-to-rent certification

Company, which certifies buildings in terms of internet connectivity, expands in Dublin

Mon Feb 24 2020 - 05:30

Your business week: Philip Lane’s post-election insights

CSO data on Thursday rounds off year in which house prices have begun to calm

Sun Feb 09 2020 - 18:00

Bono-backed truck-tracking company raises $400 million

Convoy, whose other backers include Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, now valued at $2.75bn

Wed Nov 13 2019 - 18:47

This Week in Business: Media and aviation giants report results

Darina Allen talks to women who don’t lunch, while the FT’s Martin Wolf talks transformation

Sun Nov 03 2019 - 17:00

Your business week: Flutter Entertainment to report earnings

CSO figures to give clearer insight into state of affairs for Irish car industry; Glanbia and Kerry Group to report

Sun Aug 04 2019 - 18:00

Trump lashes out at EU over tech antitrust cases

EU regulator ‘hates’ America, Trump claims

Thu Jun 27 2019 - 08:20

All eyes on Ryanair as airline releases last pre-Brexit financial results

Your Business Week: Alphabet and Twitter results due; Checkout conference takes place

Sun Feb 03 2019 - 18:00

This Week in Business: Blair to address Web Summit Lisbon

National Analytics Conference takes place in Dublin, results due from Liberty Media

Sun Nov 04 2018 - 16:59

Dublin tourism briefing and Facebook results due

Your business this week: Irish unemployment figures, BoE rates decision and Starbucks results

Tue Oct 30 2018 - 12:52

Bono-backed truck technology company Convoy raises $198m

Other investors in Convoy include Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff and Reid Hoffman

Mon Sept 24 2018 - 05:30

This Week: Bank of Ireland earnings expected to take positive turn

Elsewhere, FBD’s H1 results come in middle of an investigation into the firm

Sun Jul 29 2018 - 18:00

Bono joins Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates as backer of tech start-up Convoy

U2 frontman and lead guitarist The Edge invest in on-demand trucking firm

Tue May 08 2018 - 10:57

This week: Results from Walt Disney, News Corp and Horizon Pharma

Employment law conference to address ‘increasingly restrictive’ legislation

Sun May 06 2018 - 18:00

Yelp’s Irish unit books €2.3m restructuring charge

Turnover rose while losses narrowed at Irish unit of global online review platform

Fri Nov 10 2017 - 13:19

Ryanair’s wings clipped by cancellations debacle

This Week: Airline’s first-half results will reflect investor jitters. Also: AIB’s egm

Sun Oct 29 2017 - 18:00

Online reviews: what you read isn’t always what you get

While big companies try to prevent them, fake user reviews are still a problem

Thu Nov 17 2016 - 05:21

Business Week: Alarm as Trump inches ahead of Clinton

Also Brexit opportunities, financial improprieties, and unemployment decrease

Sat Nov 05 2016 - 07:48

Yelp’s painful Dublin job cuts show friendly Web 2.0 is all for show

Caveat: Chief executive Jeremy Stoppelman delivered the news in a cold, insensitive manner

Fri Nov 04 2016 - 06:12

Dublin in the firing line as Yelp to cut 175 jobs worldwide

Online review platform announced the creation of 100 jobs in Dublin only two years ago

Wed Nov 02 2016 - 18:29

WeChat takes over China but can’t get over the Great Firewall

806 million people use smartphone multipurpose app but Beijing monitors content

Wed Oct 26 2016 - 12:45

Top 1000 2016: The winners, the losers and the biggest taxpayers

Ireland’s Top 1000 companies hit record profits of some €36bn in this year’s survey

Fri May 20 2016 - 01:00

Star power: the trouble with TripAdvisor

Along with Yelp and others, the travel-review site lets us share our opinions about restaurants, hotels and much more. But how trustworthy are user reviews, and how do they affect business?

Sat Jul 11 2015 - 17:30

‘Dublin Zoo’s a nice place except they have animals in captivity’

What Yelp and TripAdvisor say about places in Ireland

Sat Jul 11 2015 - 05:35

The battle between surveillance, security and the right to privacy

The bargain you make, again and again, with various companies is surveillance in exchange for free service

Thu Jun 18 2015 - 01:55

Consumer review website operator Yelp considering sale

Yelp.com could net in excess of $3.5 billion if it is sold, reports ‘Wall Street Journal’

Thu May 07 2015 - 19:55

User-review websites operator Yelp loses €1.14m in first quarter

Local advertising revenue dropped as a result of a sales-force restructuring

Thu Apr 30 2015 - 15:48

Results due from tech giants Apple, Twitter and LinkedIn

Apple takes centre stage with iPhone sales driving up their profit margins

Mon Apr 27 2015 - 01:15

PayPal mafia has brought many start-ups to web success

Uber, Airbnb, LinkedIn, Yelp – all are products of a small, elitist cabal with PayPal roots

Mon Apr 06 2015 - 01:45

Social entrepreneur likes to use technology to help keep it local

New innovators: eTownz’s Pat Kennedy

Mon Nov 24 2014 - 01:00