Replacing call centres with home workers and a suite of customer management services and technologies is proving to be a scalable business for the Cork-based company.
American investors pay a higher multiple for a given set of cash flows, which has attracted CRH and Flutter’s listings. Their financial data is now coming in.
A group of Irish business leaders recently completed a three-city swing across the US aimed at forging deeper links with their American counterparts. It is one of the most significant annual interfacing events in the transatlantic business calendar.
The trial of NFL football hero OJ Simpson was one of biggest stories from America in the past 30 years. His death last week leaves many dark areas around the crimes he was never found guilty of having committed.
US voters obsess about the stock market because their pension depends on it, just like Irish ones do about house prices. The political consequences are dire.
The US Office of Foreign Assets Control has frozen the assets of individuals and companies behind the Predator surveillance technology, banning anyone from doing business with them. A promise to investigate their Irish presence has yet to materialise.
JT Magen, the US construction giant led by Maurice Regan, has hit back at criticisms in the US against it. It plans to appeal a court decision, while the owners of the New York building involved say they will seek a damages trial.
Oisin Hanrahan built and sold Handy and ran the Nasdaq-listed Angi. Now he’s back in start-up mode with Keychain and is trying to solve the outsourcing woes of brands and manufacturers.
Moody’s decision to put the US on a negative watch was fully warranted, reflecting political dysfunction on an epic scale. The lack of any cohesive plan to deal with the US debt trajectory makes it more likely that other rating agencies will follow suit.
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