What if a single company could be formed, raise funds and distribute shares to its staff across Europe? The EU Inc project, backed by the likes of Stripe's Patrick Collison and Skype's Niklas Zennstrom, is getting traction in Brussels.
A decade on from early deals in the UK, the US vulture fund’s tax-efficient Irish subsidiaries have hoovered up bad debt from Germany to Cyprus. But how profitable are they?
The US investment firm is liquidating the first wave of vehicles it used to acquire billions of euros' worth of Irish debt after the financial crisis. A cash-flow analysis reveals how much it has made from assets offloaded by Nama and the banks.
The manoeuvrings of a small Belfast firm, in its exit from London’s AIM, has once again thrust the dreary state of public listings in Ireland and the UK into the spotlight.
Last year, the independent city newspaper made enough to pay its founders a living wage. Lois Kapila and Sam Tranum explain how they got here.
The election of the US president appears to have driven seismic policy changes at Meta. Meanwhile, evidential barriers and practicalities stymie efforts to regulate social media for children.
Australia's outright ban on social media for those under-16 is due to take effect this year as other regulators armed with new powers foist more obligations on the world's biggest tech firms.
While pioneers like Liam Hennessy laid crucial groundwork with early professional Irish teams during their Eastern European training camps, the current setup reflects years of scientific advancement and meticulous planning.
Provisional liquidators from Interpath have been appointed to the Irish arm of Digital River, a US e-commerce tech company. The move comes days after the CEO told US staff it was shutting down.
The Irish start-up, backed by a swathe of high-profile sports stars, has been buoyed by its disruption of Ireland's expensive grind schools. Now, it's eyeing up an overseas expansion.
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