Smaller crowds, outdoor or online performances and no sense of intimacy. This is what's on the cards for Irish theatres as they begin to get back to work. Already under funding pressure, will Covid-19 impact the industry further?
After fruitless acquisition talks last year and liquidation this year, a group of original investors recently bought out the food ordering start-up. Can the business prosper second time around?
Paul Quigley, the CEO of social media analytics firm Newswhip talks about the company’s journey, its plans for the future, the media landscape, fake news and the importance of recurring revenue.
For the second time in two years, a deal to sell Goodbody to a Chinese buyer has fallen through. How long will it be before Fexco is talking to Davy?
DJ Tara Stewart says she cut ties with the fashion retailer Boohoo last year after researching the brand. Following more allegations and a share price collapse, will other Irish influencers follow?
Copper Face Jacks is always in the headlines, whether it is for celebrity sightings, going up for sale or paying astronomical dividends to its owners. Year after year, however, it has been an impressively steady money-making machine.
Liam Harrington is the chief business officer of Iconic Labs. Former Leinster rugby player Paul O’Donohoe is a partner with Greencastle. Having teamed up to buy the Joe media brand out of insolvency, both speak exclusively to The Currency.
Thousands of tip-offs, covert surveillance and “streetscape” sweeps feed into the fight against the “shadow economy”. Exclusive figures reveal that hundreds of professionals feature alongside builders, landlords and retailers among the taxman’s targets.
Professor Pinar Ozcan is an Oxford University expert on innovation and fintech. She sets out why the banks are vulnerable to disruption by fintech, why the fintechs have struggled to capitalise, and why there's an opportunity for a new type of company to step in and dominate the industry.
The original plan was to build a steady-Eddie clinical research organisation, and sell it on. That plan went out the window when Covid-19 hit. Now Open Orphan is setting its sights much higher.
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