Diego Piacentini led Amazon's international expansion for sixteen years, from a plucky internet upstart to the gargantuan force it is now. In town for Endeavor Ireland's first retreat, he sat down with The Currency to discuss transforming the retailer and his home country's digital footprint.
There has been much focus on the added capacity needed to meet peak electricity demand, while the public is invited to moderate power usage at crunch times. For commercial users, however, this is already an organised business, as industry representative Siobhán McHugh explains.
The group behind the Business Post newspaper, majority owned by Galway businessman Enda O'Coineen, is in talks to sell a minority stake to one of the biggest publishing houses in the Nordics.
The promoters of a 24-storey building on the site of the former City Arts Centre argue that it will enhance the skyline, contribute to higher density near public transport and interact with existing heritage, citing the example of Sydney's Custom House area.
The parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is the largest yet of technology multinationals to prepare for redundancies in Ireland, illustrating how exposed the Irish economy is to the sector.
The well-known publican and hotelier Louis Fitzgerald argued he was not obliged to pay the €200,000 domicile levy in 2010 and 2011 due to capital losses from building a hotel. Revenue, however, had a different idea.
Building materials provider Keegan Quarries spent €3 million developing a commercial lease at the port. Now it claims its business is being unfairly hampered by restrictive cargo licensing.
Remote working has been hugely beneficial for many employers and employees. But it has also opened opportunities for less scrupulous people to game the system.
Having entered the Irish market five years ago, law firm Pinsent Masons now has 70 staff and a roster of major clients. Ann Lalor, the head of its Dublin office, talks about expansion, economic headwinds, and the changing legal market in Ireland.
Long before empathy enjoyed its current status as an important human quality, Tommie Gorman was showing an ability to share and understand the feelings of others.
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