Sold for $400m: Dublin-based semiconductor company Decawave
January 30, 2020 5:55 amDecawave, a cutting edge chip maker, has been sold for an estimated $400 million to Nasdaq-listed Qorvo. North Carolina-based Qorvo... View Article
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Transfers to Afghanistan, Albania, Iraq, Turkey and Syria: How Irish money transfer firm fell foul of French regulator
January 30, 2020 5:30 amKnowing your client is key to anti-money laundering regulations. But a French probe of the Irish arm of American financial... View Article
Anatomy of a carousel fraud: €8 million worth of machinery, an “underworld figure” and a wife “run off the road.”
January 29, 2020 5:15 amIt was Kevin Rabbitte’s 48th birthday. January 8, 2020, was not the ideal time to be preparing a witness statement... View Article
“It’s digital first and that means print second”: Meet the Belgian media executive tasked with reviving INM
January 29, 2020 5:07 amSitting comfortably in a Dublin pub overlooking the River Liffey, Peter Vandermeersch’s first reaction was both emphatic and categoric: No. ... View Article
Dylan Collins: “We did not raise money from Microsoft because we needed capital. But it is a massive signal to the market”
January 28, 2020 5:40 amSeven years ago, Dylan Collins was struggling to sell the potential of his new “kid tech platform” to potential investors... View Article
Petroleum poker: loan blame game, CIA-linked investor and sun-drenched oil fields hold Petrel deal together
January 28, 2020 5:14 amLast Thursday evening, Michel Fayad, a strikingly tall 36-year-old, and Said Mehraik, nearly twice his age and half his height,... View Article
Royal rumble: Bank of Ireland probes former staffer rumoured in the bank to be distant member of the British royal family
January 27, 2020 5:55 amA former member of staff at the centre of an internal review by Bank of Ireland was believed to be... View Article
Auction politics and the economics of elections: Stephen Kinsella talks to Sean Keyes
January 27, 2020 5:42 amWith an election hurdling toward the people of Ireland, The Currency’s Chief Economics Writer Stephen Kinsella recently wrote a piece... View Article
Just browsing: Online shopping is making retailers re-think the way they do business. Is Ireland’s high street in danger?
January 27, 2020 5:11 amAfter 30 years in the fashion trade, married couple Kieran and Donna Coogan decided to close the doors of their... View Article
One month later, Tom Anderson sells most of his Datalex stake. Who’s buying?
January 24, 2020 5:00 pmLess than a month after buying 5.35 per cent of Datalex’s shares in an off market transaction, Irish businessman Tom... View Article
