A breath of fresh air: Sanity System’s ten-fold pandemic growth boost

German political power is splintering as the country prepares for a post Angela Merkel world and, two weeks ahead of the federal election, the situation is volatile.

The company’s technology has been used in campaigns for Barbie, Audi and the Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End movie. But facing mounting losses and the exit of a key client, Emuse is collapsing into liquidation.

Dublin company M-Birr built a huge mobile money business in Ethiopia and secured a string of major shareholders. However, it has now collapsed and is currently up for sale. This is the story of what went wrong for the Irish company.

You might think shutting down sites for much of 2020 would have impacted general contractors’ financials. Thanks to its flexible business model, Walls barely missed a step.

Riding the data centre boom, the border business E&I Engineering has just been acquired by US tech multinational Vertiv. How did it achieve unicorn status, and who are the shareholders behind Cyprus holding companies set to reap the benefits?

Some of the world’s biggest investors believe 21-year-old Shane Curran can disrupt how the world manages data privacy. Economist Stephen Kinsella has just launched a new and radically different computer science course. Here, they discuss everything from education to entrepreneurship.

Business customers have been told in recent weeks to download AIB’s authenticator app in order to comply with strong customer authentication rules making online shopping more secure. But it is not working for all of them.

The Climate Change Advisory Council is about to publish Ireland’s first carbon budgets, which will set hard limits on greenhouse gas emissions for the next decade. Its chair Marie Donnelly details, step by step, how this overall figure will translate into obligations for individual ministers, businesses and households.

Irish software company Swrve has raised close to $140m from Isif, Atlantic Bridge and others. However, after burning through most of its funds without making a profit, the firm has now raised more $8m in debt and restructured around $10m in loan notes.

The second part of our investigation into the spread of the pandemic among meat factory staff examines why some of them fell through the safety net established to keep workers away from each other when they posed a risk of infection.