Its artificial-intelligence revenue is set to top $1 billion this year, reassuring investors wary of rivals’ sky-high spending, write Rolfe Winkler and Nate Rattner, The Wall Street Journal.
The transaction reflects that Allergan Pharmaceuticals International became a major profit centre for the US pharma group in 2020, after funding intellectual property assets with intercompany debt that has now been cancelled.
The pharma giant, one of Ireland's top-three taxpayers together accounting for almost half of corporation tax payments in 2024, is accelerating its growth on the back of successful weight-loss drugs.
Kerry Group failed to sparkle in 2025 as it regrouped following the sale of legacy Irish dairy processing, introduced a more aggressive digital transformation programme, and faced a geopolitical challenge different from tariffs.
After months of riding positive vibes, the troubled chip maker reminded investors why it needed a rescue in the first place, write Sean McLain and Robbie Whelan, The Wall Street Journal.
The US is claiming “victory” over a side deal to the OECD minimum tax agreement until the end of the Trump presidency. Ireland will find it hard to resist the temptation of spending the money while it has it.
Even by Ireland’s record-breaking tax revenue standards, this year’s record is staggering. The Government has one year left to turn this gold mine into housing and infrastructure.
What does Donald Trump’s former commerce secretary Wilbur Ross mean when he says in Dublin that pharmaceutical companies “gradually come around”? The answer, if correct, is reassuring for Ireland.
Recently named CEO of the Year at the IMAGE PwC Businesswoman of the Year Awards, Carolan Lennon discusses how Salesforce Ireland is preparing for a new world of human-AI collaboration — and why values, not velocity, will shape the future of work.
Now in his 16th budget debate as Sinn Féin’s finance spokesperson, Pearse Doherty outlines ideological differences with the Government on housing, the taxation of large and small businesses, and income redistribution in a cost-of-living crisis.
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