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Colorado start-up Boom is promising to bring back supersonic travel. To understand if it can succeed, you have to understand why Concorde ultimately failed, and also examine the competing interests of aircraft manufacturers and airlines.

The Cork company funnelling the Silicon Valley giant’s international business has been the source of a cascade of dividends for the past few years. Now it is set to reap the benefits of a boom in Asian demand for Apple products.

Stripe's Dublin office has just filed annual accounts revealing the central role Ireland has come to play in its expanding business outside the US. Just before the pandemic provided a huge boost to its business, it also posted its first ever Irish profit.

New transactions reveal how the American computer infrastructure giant has consolidated all profits made outside the US in an unassuming Dublin business park – without fully giving up on zero-tax jurisdictions.

Four years ago, Dr Fiona Edwards Murphy went straight from her studies to founding a connected beehive start-up, ApisProtect. Last month, she featured on Forbes’s 30 under 30 list. After launching in the US in the middle of the pandemic, her product is now launching on the European market.

From the interpretation of satellite data to software assisting astronauts on SpaceX flights, Irish companies are increasingly present in orbit. Beyond the thrill of space exploration, its exacting standards propel these technology businesses towards new markets.

Increasingly conscious Irish consumers have attracted Vienna-based Refurbed here, but Brexit also had a role to play, according to its CEO and co-founder Kilian Kaminski.

ECI Energy was spun out of an established family business on the northside of Dublin. Acutrace is a six-year-old prop-tech company tackling inefficiencies in commercial buildings. The two firms have just tied the knot.

Already the dominating player in Ireland’s fast-growing data centre industry, the US digital giant has acquired another large property from a well-known agri-business family next to an electricity connection for its power-hungry business.

Ten years ago, Dublin student Ronan McGovern left for MIT on a Fulbright scholarship. He has just returned to Ireland after selling his start-up to a leading engineering multinational.