Vertical Aerospace and Archer Aviation are in a patent dispute in the US. Meanwhile, Vertical is pursuing a case against a former employee in the UK that moved to its chief rival.
The platform was founded last year and has seen user numbers surge. It has relocated its HQ to The Netherlands and is storing its data in Ireland in a bid to reduce reliance on the US.
New figures from Amazon’s cloud-computing division show that it is no longer ploughing money as fast into Irish data centres as it is globally.
Large companies, some of them government contractors, have cited economics and political pressure in pulling their sponsorships of Pride events, writes Patrick Coffee, The Wall Street Journal.
Brian Fitzgerald was previously deputy chief executive of the Beacon Hospital. He now joins Charter Medical to lead its €85 million expansion.
Having acquired hundreds of rental homes across Irish cities, the young Dublin firm has reshuffled the funding of its first portfolio.
Sean O’Connor never thought of himself as an entrepreneur but the StatSports co-founder has built one of Ireland’s biggest sportstech success stories. He talks about saying no to Adidas, yes to Sony, and bringing global sports stars on board.
The billionaire philanthropist was once ranked the world’s most admired man—but the revelations of his Jeffrey Epstein ties are eroding efforts to burnish his reputation, writes Emily Glazer, The Wall Street Journal.
Sinn Féin performed poorly in the recent by-elections and the aftermath has led to questions about what exactly the party stands for. Housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin mounts a robust defence.
From mini-pigs and organ printing to cryotherapy and genetics, Russia’s president has turned antiaging research into a Kremlin priority, writes Bojan Pancevski, The Wall Street Journal.
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