Full coverage: Technology

Kevin O’Loughlin founded Nostra, an €18m managed IT services provider that employs 150 people. Here, he outlines some practical steps that will help shore up a company’s IT security, and the questions that all business leaders should be asking.

From a standing start four years ago, Irish gifting platform &Open now works with some of the world’s biggest companies and has just closed a major funding round. CEO Jonathan Legge explains how its founders pivoted towards success after spotting an opportunity in the market.

Fexco scion John McCarthy, his family and colleagues are in line for a €165 million windfall from the sale of their company Taxamo. They have successfully capitalised on the combined effects of the boom in online shopping, Brexit and an EU crackdown on Vat evasion.

Multiple assessments of the Irish economy agree that the long-term issues facing us are intergenerational inequality, firms dealing with technological change, and climate change. Here is how we can tackle them.

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.