After more than three decades at the helm of Softco, Susan Spence and her brother Jim Coffey sold their software firm for over €100 million. Spence reflects on the strategy, succession planning, and timing that made the deal possible.
Generating EU demand for the products of the bloc’s start-ups may be a good place to start, but a lot more is needed to make the European ecosystem less dependent on US venture capital.
The electronics firm spent a year chasing Dermot Keogh through the courts, claiming he violated his contract and misused company data. A judge found in the Irishman’s favour.
Wisconsin-based Realta Fusion is led by Wexford's Kieran Furlong. The nuclear-energy start-up has now raised $50m from the private and public sector.
The cloud technology firm, now part of the Broadcom group, has moved intellectual property rights – and taxable income – from Ireland to the US.
We will all interact with conversational AI sooner rather than later on both sides of the recruitment process, but bots still miss context and the ability to assess soft skills.
European policy on artificial intelligence is preemptive, limiting entrepreneurs’ access to the latest technology. Sometimes it’s best to wait just a little and see how society responds to innovation.
The US-based IT giant is realising the second half of the value onshored to Ireland in 2020 – without rowing back on its profitable Dublin-based green jersey structure.
The Digital Markets Act fines against the tech giants are the first of their kind and could have reached many billions. Did the EU hold back because of US trade tensions?
Hearing the case in the commercial court, Mr Justice Sanfey told Keith O'Brien, the payroll manager accused of leaking trade secrets to Rippling's rival, Deel, that he was in “a very serious situation”.
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